[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape Vampire Theory (kinda long)

[Carolina]

No: HPFGUIDX 77774

Allyson:
<< That being said, I don't see whats wrong (or non-canonical) with
 pointing out that Snape goes out in daylight, eats regular food, etc.
 (And yes, I'm aware that those points have probably been done to
 death on this board)>>

Dracula goes out in daylight, if we are basing on wide-known references. 
Isn't he vampire enough for you?

Eats regular food: You, as a human, can eat a leather shoe. It won't do 
much good, but you can. And allowing vampires can't eat, they can fool 
the eye. If you are good, and I know Snape is, you can just pretend you 
are eating normal food.

<<JKR can make vampires do whatever she wants in her books, but they 
aren't a brand-new creature, like dementors for example. All of us 
have notions of what vampires are, based on folklore or literary 
descriptions. Would JKR put vampires in her books, then expect the 
reader to imagine something wildly different from the norm?The 
apples in the WW could be purple, weigh 50 pounds and have tentacles 
sticking out, but no one would recognize them as apples. >>

Repeating: 

Ugly mermaids. That's wildy different from the norm.

House-elfs. I doubt the medium young reader brainwashed by LOTR knew 
elves could be small, ugly and, well, as house-elfs.

Fairies. Turned into Barbies.

But as she uses the same name, we recognize them. However, she changes a 
bit a creature (Nightmare) and gives a different name (Thestrals) and 
the medium reader doesn't recognize them. The power of names.  

<<Maybe Snape is a vampire, but I don't see how the reader is supposed 
to work that out, considering that he isn't described as behaving in 
a way that an average person would associate with vampires.>>

Should he have long fangs, a red cloak and sleep in a coffin for us to 
deduct? Then we should banish PPetigrew for being such a beliable rat 
during the first novels, how were we expected to deduct he was an 
animagus?

<<I may be 
stupid, but I'm going to continue wallowing in the pit with everyone 
else who thinks that a vampire who isn't undead and doesn't drink 
blood, just isn't a vampire.>>

And I'd love you to find counterarguments that are not repeatedly 
answered, it would be so fun. I'm not even a Snave-vampire one, but I'd 
like for the theory to be disproved, and it isn't, so I'm playing the 
opposite role.

silmariel