[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape Vampire Theory: Where did this come from?

[Scott Santangelo]

No: HPFGUIDX 77041



Sydney <sydpad at yahoo.com> wrote:
<subrosax at e...> wrote:
> I'm sure this question has been asked and answered a million times on this board, but could someone kindly explain the Snape/Vampire theory to me? 


Sydney said:
Personally I can't stand the Vampire theory, but the evidence IS compelling.  You can find it exhaustively discussed at Fantastic Posts here: http://www.hpfgu.org.uk/faq/snape.html#vampire .
Most of it is mightly flimsy, but the Vampire Essay hints ARE very JKR. Lupin ushers Harry and Neville out of Snape's office saying he 'needs to talk to them about his vampire essay'-- only a couple of weeks after Snape assigned the werewolf essay.  Vampires were not
listed on the original curriculum.  A bit later, Neville is dithering over the same vampire essay, when Snape suddenly appears in a mighty bad temper.  Of course, Snape in a temper isn't evidence of anything! But it is hint-y in JKR kind of way.  Then there's the oddly pointed mention in OoP, "Snape never eats here". For my part, I just find it aesthetically displeasing for Snape to be a vampire-- it's TOO MUCH GOTH.  He's already nearly over the top as it is!  If a vampire is introduced, I want it to be a fat, belching, lorry-driver. Also, sunlight, garlic, yadda yadda... the main point of vampires is that they're UNDEAD.  They don't age or die.  I'm not a vampire fan, but a mortal vampire isn't a vampire in my book, it's just someone who drinks blood.

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I knew I should not have answered that last post so quickly - just read this one and realized you'd already made the same point (better said, too!). I saw a program on people who considered themselves "vampires," and the modern term they gave themselves was "sanguinarians." Disturbing, but true.

owlery2003



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