Snape Vampire Theory

[mclellyn]

No: HPFGUIDX 79646

mclellyn wrote:
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> > "Potions lessons took place down in one of the dungeons.  It was 
> > colder here than up in the main castle, and would have been quite 
> > creepy enough without the pickled animals floating in glass jars 
> all around the walls."
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> > Could be Vampire!Snape's prior meals?
> 
>> mel's question; Why would he save them? Do you save eggshells? 
> Chicken skin? Banana peels?
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> 

Gadfly McLellyn question;  Those pickled animals don't seem to be 
for use in potions class so why are they there?  I'd expect them for 
biology which does not seem to be taught at Hogwarts.  They always go 
to his locked cupboard for supplies, and not to any of those jars on 
the walls.  I was thinking it might be a Slytherin thing.  Like the 
Black's mounting all their house elves heads on the wall.  Snape 
displays all his victims too!!<vbg>

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> > SS/PS Chapter 8 The Potions Master Page 137 of US paperback, 
Snapes famous introductory speech....
> > 
> > "I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even stopper 
> > death....."  
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> > Stoppering death kind of sounds vampirish to me.
> > 
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> Mel's comment: Sounds like brewing poison to me.
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Gadfly McLellyn question:  Could it be read he could stop death?  
JKR does like to play with us.
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<snipped canon of Snape missing meals>--
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> > Soooooo Snape isn't always eating at dinner time!
> 
> 
> Mel again: He was royally p*****. He was also royally elated that 
> he'd caught Potter in such flagrant disregard for the LAW.
> He was probably the Master "On Call" and as such had already eaten 
or planned to later. Without all the noise and bother of the sorting 
> going on around him. Maybe he just wasn't hungry. *I* don't always 
> eat at dinner time, and you'll have to take my word for it, but I'm 
> not a vampire.
> 
>

Gadfly McLellyn:  Is there canon to support any teacher is on call 
at mealtime?  Sounds like you get kind of grumpy when you miss a 
meal! <vbg>  Me too actually.
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> > "I was just showing Harry my grindylow," said Lupin pleasantly, 
> > pointing to the tank.
> > 
> > "Fascinating," said Snape, without looking at it."
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> Mel asks: Can't look at it? Why would he want to look at it? Remus 
> and Harry weren't even looking at it! That Grindylowe line was a 
> ruse, remember? Not much blood in a Grindylowe either, I don't 
think. I mean, it's not like Remus said, I was just telling Harry 
that Grindylowe goes very well with a nice Stilton.
> 
> Melpomene

Gadfly McLellyn:  You have to admit that Snape is always pretty 
murderous with Neville's toad!  Maybe he acts that way because of all 
those meals he has missed from being "on call".  <vbg>  Are you sure 
you are not a vampire?  It would never occur to me to have a nice 
Stilton with my Grindylowe. ;)