TO anyone who wants to push Vampire!Snape snogging with Florence

[oh have faith]

No: HPFGUIDX 71860

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sophineclaire" 
<metal_tiara at h...> wrote:
>   This is a real stretch, but at least I'm not repeating "Florence 
is 
> English for Frienze" for the umpteenth time.
> 
> Florence is always the name of the Dublin beauty that Oscar Wilde 
> courted and whom Bram Stoker married in 1878; Florence Anne Lemon 
> Balcombe. They had one child, son Noel, in December 1879.
> 
> 
> -SophineClaire
> who has a list of questions that she wants JKR to answer


I know the Snape-as-vamp question has been discussed endlessly on 
here before, so forgive me if this is mindless repetition, but:

While I have every sympathy for Snape-as-vamp or half-vamp theories, 
I don't see how Snape necking with Florence can support him being a 
full vamp.  Vampires are undead immortals.  They don't age, they 
don't mature, they don't grow.  How could a vampire teenager caught 
necking with a girl behind the greenhouses grow up into an adult who 
looks his chronological age?  If Snape were a vampire in the 
traditional sense, he would technically be dead, and so shouldn't 
really have visibly aged since his death.  As such, it would be 
likely he died as an adult.  

Of course, that's assuming JKR is going to abide by the traditional 
folklore, but she has to give some nod to what a vampire is widely 
understood to be, otherwise she's just Humpty-Dumptying  (Taking a 
word that is widely accepted to mean one thing and using it to mean 
something else).  All the clues that Snape is a vampire - the bat-
like swooping, the pallid complexion, the nocturnal stalking etc 
point to a vamp in the Bram Stoker tradition, and that means un-
dead.  You can twist the folklore so a vampire can go out in 
daylight (Dracula did IIRC and more modern Buffy-style vamps can go 
out in the day if they stick to the shade), you can feed him on 
pig's blood so he doesn't eat his students, you can give him a 
conscience and make him a force for good, you can even give him his 
own detective series in LA – but can you make him age like a human 
being?  

Having said that, the existence of blood-flavoured lollipops in PoA 
may be a clue that JKR's world has vampire children, but if that's 
the case, her vamps are going to be a more unique creation than her 
other fantastic beasts, which are all recognisable from folklore in 
their appearance and mannerisms.  

I admit this doesn't rule out the half-vamp theory as that could 
result from a more natural conception, rather than rising from the 
grave - and being half-human would mean that all bets in terms of 
what he can and can't do are off.  Tradition, out the window!  But 
is there really any point in making him half-vamp by birth?  Being 
undead would be something that happened to him that could be a plot-
point, but this would just be a bit of a "Huh! Fun fact about 
Snape."  

Who knows?

^_^ 
Faith's Girl