Snape Vampire Theory: Where did this come from?

[subrosax99]

No: HPFGUIDX 77042

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sydney" <sydpad at y...> wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Sydney

Exactly. How is Snape supposed to be in danger from LV if he is 
undead?!! Other than a well positioned stake through the heart, it's 
not as if he can be killed. Where then is the danger? If Snape was so 
hot for LV in the beginning, why didn't he just turn him into a 
vampire? That would have quickly dispensed with the whole eternal 
life problem.

I agree also that Snape has more than enough going on without being a 
vampire to boot. Could some of this be movie contamination? The sight 
of Rickman dressed up like Ichabod Crane in a scuzzy Trent Reznor wig 
surely hasn't helped matters much. (Not that I'm complaining about 
Rickman, mind you.) Again, I agree; it's too much goth.

Allyson