Snape Vampire Theory: Where did this come from?

[subrosax99]

No: HPFGUIDX 77046

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "koinonia02" <Koinonia2 at h...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "subrosax99" <subrosax at e...> 
> wrote:
> 
> > 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? 
> 
> "K":
> Vampires can be done away with. They can be killed. Stake through 
the 
> heart, the head cut off, etc. 

Me: I thought that's what I just said. Driving a stake through 
Snape's heart would be quite a bit more involved than a simple Avada 
Kedavra. (By the way, does anyone else think Avada Kedavra sounds 
like a hair care product?)

> >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.
> 
> "K":
> Because Voldemort has vampiric qualities also. It was Voldemort who 
> went on a quest for immortality and who seems to be familiar with 
> vampires. He seems to be the main connection to those creatures.

Me: Who cares if he has "vampiric qualities"? Why not just be a 
vampire and forget all that other mess? If VD were a vampire, he'd be 
immortal, end of story. 

> > I agree also that Snape has more than enough going on without 
being 
> a 
> > vampire to boot.
> 
> "K":
> Such as? Could not being a vampire be the root of most of his 
> problems? I guess we could say the same for Hagrid and Lupin.

Me: We haven't seen a shred of evidence that Snape's problems are 
caused by his being a vampire. Hagrid and Lupin do seem to suffer 
from discrimination due to their "half-breed" status (though how this 
applies to Lupin I do not understand.)By contrast, Snape seems to get 
on well with Lucious Malfoy, who seems to be about as snobby as they 
come in the wizarding world. What we know about Snape from canon 
suggests far more mundane reasons for his problems.


> >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.
> 
> "K":
> Not from me. I'm not a big fan of the movies as it is. The vampire 
> theory has been around for a lot longer than any of the movies.


Me: OK, but I still don't get where this vampire thing comes from. If 
Snape is in fact a vampire, he's pretty pathetic. No one in the books 
is even turning up with bite marks! Please, don't tell me he's living 
off chickens or something. That's just undignified.

Allyson