Snape eating or not eating

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"Jean Lamb" <tlambs1138 at c...> wrote:
> We are told that Snape is never seen eating (at least by Harry) at
> 12 Grimmauld Place. There are several possible reasons for this:
> 
> 1) The vampire or part/vampire hypothesis. I lean towards
> part/vampire...

Florentine responded:
> When I read about Snape not eating at Grimauld Place, I found it
> VERY suspicious. Looks like a case of J.K.Rowlings putting in
> clues to me... Snape is a part-vampire, I feel it in my toes..
>
> However, I was alwas imagining that Snape could eat at Hogwarts
> because he got specially prepared food there. Possibliy only
> Dumbledore and the house-elfs who prepare his food at Hogwarts
> know about his "special condition". They make his meals look like
> the other people's and slip them in discretely.

I feel it in my toes too. There are just too many references to 
vampires in the book, especially the one where Lupin assigns 
homework on Vampires after he finds out that Snape assigned one on 
Werewolves. Maybe he isn't Vampire or part Vampire, but some other 
kind of Bat or part Bat. I can't believe that JKR would put so many 
references to Vampires on all five books just to mislead us.

To me it would also explain how Snape manages to spy on Voldemort 
and the DE's. I must say that I'm not following the threads that 
focus on this particular subject. I can't figure out how to explain 
the scenes with Snape and Quirrell/Voldemort in SS/PS, or if the DE 
know Snape is a spy or in the Order of Phoenix, or if Snape went to 
the graveyard in GoF, or his relationship with Lucius Malfoy. I 
think this double spying stuff is too complicated and not so 
difficult to discover.

I'm not saying that every time that Snape spies on Voldemort and 
DE's he does it in Bat form (as he clearly was a DE, by the DE mark 
on his arm), but maybe sometimes he does, and as he is good at 
Occlumency, he can avoid detection.

I just think it's worth considering, I'm not totally convinced of it 
myself. 

Sharana