[HPforGrownups] Re: Vampire!Snape

[digger]

No: HPFGUIDX 77554

koinonia02 wrote:
  > --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Wendy St John"

  >
  > Wendy St John:
  > I believe the vampire clues are intentional, which
  > means that she either A) put them in so that when we learn he's a
  > vampire,
  > she can say, "look, it was there all along;" or B) she's put the
  > clues in
  > to trick us into thinking he's a vampire, so she can say, "Gotcha!"
  > with
  > something else when he turns out *not* to be.
  >

digger writes:

There are so many references to vampires, but we have yet to meet one 
for sure. We are definitely being set-up with clues to recognise one, 
but I think JKR is leading us up her well-trodden path of mis-direction.

Snape "seems the type, doesn't he?"

So I don't think it will turn out to be him.
If not Snape then who?
I think it is Voldemort who has the vampiric blood, and I think he used
it in part to gain his 'immortal' status.
"He (Riddle) disappeared after leaving the school ... traveled far and 
wide ... sank so deeply into the Dark Arts, consorted with the very 
worst of our kind, underwent so many dangerous, magical transformations, 
that when he resurfaced as Lord Voldemort, he was barely recognizable" 
Prof Quirrell takes a years sabbatical and heads east for
some practical experience. He meets a vampire in Romania, and thats 
where he encounters Voldemort. For someone who is in search of 
immortality, studying  the 'undead' in Romania seems a good place to start.
I bet Charlie, Krum, and Romania will feature in book 6/7 ;-)

digger