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

[silmariel]

No: HPFGUIDX 77414

Allyson:
> Exactly! What is with the parents? I'm no expert, but I always
> understood that vampires were created by one vampire biting a person,
> not by two adult vampires getting it on. Even if one of the parents
> were human, I imagine the vampire parent would be infertile. To me,
> that would be a natural by-product of being undead.

Search for Dhampires. You know about cells and reproduction theory, but 
this knowledge wasn't in vogue when vampire myths spreaded, so it 
wasn't a natural by-product and certain vampire versions can have 
children.

<<We also see teenaged Snape sitting in a dark bedroom. In my 
experience, bedrooms tend to have beds in them. Why is he sleeping in 
a bed? Surely the bed isn't there for decoration. What gives?>>

He sleeps in it? What's the matter? Again, certain vampires sleep 
wherever they want.

<<Also, how the hell is Snape supposed to owe a life-debt to James if 
he's UNDEAD?!!>>

Easy. Vampire, human or half, he was a newbie that a werewolf would have 
cut into tiny little pieces. Vampires usually appreciate their undead 
state and do not want to be vanished from existance. It would be an 
unlife-debt.
  
<<If Snape is a vampire, he's the crappiest one in literary history. He 
walks around in daylight, eats normal food, looks in mirrors, sleeps 
in a bed>>

John William Polidori, 'The Vampire' (? ESL, 'El Vampiro'), first 
published  1819.

<<isn't even immortal. Next thing you know, we'll be seeing him in 
church!>>

Dhampires are supossed to grow up. And, why not the church?

I don't happen to think Snape is a vampire/dhampire, btw, but a big red 
herring covering a real one.

silmariel