Snape Vampire Theory (kinda long)

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No: HPFGUIDX 77897

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Carolina <silmariel at t...> wrote:
> Dracula goes out in daylight, if we are basing on wide-known 
references. > Isn't he vampire enough for you?
> Should he have long fangs, a red cloak and sleep in a coffin for us 
to deduct? >

Me: Surely you aren't implying that I lack all subtlety and 
imagination? I am more than capable of deducing that Snape is a 
vampire without him prancing around like Bela Lugosi. My conclusions 
are based on the assumption that vampires are categorically undead, 
and must drink the blood of the living to survive. Snape does not 
appear to meet either of these criteria. The fact that he goes out in 
daylight or sleeps in a bed does not prove or disprove anything. It 
merely adds to the overall impression that Snape does not behave in a 
way typically associated with vampires (folkloric and literary 
variations aside.)

I happen to like some of the pro-vampire theories, but they seem to 
be based primarily on speculation, not actual evidence (insofar as 
you can have evidence in a fictional world where anything and 
everything can be explained by magic.) In contrast, the anti-vampire 
partisans have quite a few "known" facts which suggest that Snape is 
nothing more or less than a disgruntled human being. 

We don't know whether or not Snape is a vampire because JKR hasn't 
told us yet. As I said before, she can make her vampires do whatever 
she wants. It's her story, after all. But to me, it would be 
counterintuitive to construct a vampire character who bears little or 
no resemblence to what most of us concieve vampires to be.

I suspect that much of the pro-vampire sentiment is based on 
aesthetic preference. I don't have any problem with that. I certainly 
don't let JKR's canonical descriptions of Snape as a greasy-haired 
snaggletooth intrude upon my, um...thoughts about Snape. 

>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

Me:I doubt there are any arguements that haven't been repeated a 
dozen or more times on this board. I'm sure you aren't asking me to 
prove that Snape isn't a vampire, as I'm sure you know it isn't 
possible. But if you'd like to give your own categorical definitions 
of what a vampire is, we could have some fun with Venn diagrams ;)

Allyson