Chapter Discussions: Chapter 4, Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place

[junediamanti]

No: HPFGUIDX 83702

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jennifer" <mookie1552 at a...> 
wrote:
> I have to comment on the post, sorry no snip, that mentioned Snape 
as 
> a vampire...hmm interesting stuff.  That would definately be a 
curve 
> JKR supreme.  Has Snape ever been mentioned outside during 
> daylight...not that I can remember.  This would be a cool 
revilation 

Refereeing the odd Quidditch game, spectating the odd Quidditch 
game... and throughout NOT shrouded in black cloth, a hat and 
sunglasses....

Wandering to the lake after his DADA paper...


> but he does not follow all vampire laws, i.e. Ann Rice vampires. 

People should not necessarily take what Ann Rice wrote as standard 
Vampire canon.  Witness Louis' very witty comment about crosses 
in "Interview with the Vampire" - "Nonsense, I can look upon anything 
I like, and I happen to be particularly fond of crosses"  my point 
here is that Ann Rice messed around with a good many of the vampire 
conventions.  
 
>   
> 1. he does not heal in seconds, we know this from the bite from 
> Fluffy on his leg.
> 2. he does not have fangs, I think this would have been commented 
on 
> in one of the books
> 3. he seems not to be very old, in vampire standards
> 
> but, he does not have to follow the laws set down by vampire lore.  
> So it is okay to make the guess that he is a vampire.  It would 
> explain a lot and add a lot to his personality.  Snape has very 
good 
> senses.  He seems to be able to sense when Harry is lurking about 
in 
> the invisiblity cloak.  Snape is dark and pasty, not a sun lover.  
> How do you know if that some of the hatred between Snape and James 
> stems back to the fact that Snape got bitten instead of James.  Who 
> knows?  I'm just putting it out there.

Joining the rest of the staff for Christmas dinner, dining in the 
Great Hall...

I think someone might have mentioned the fact that he never ate or 
drank a thing is it were so - just a thought.

Why has not a single student uttered in earshot their suspicions that 
he is a vampire?  Perhaps because no one suspects it apart from a few 
readers.  

June