Snape Vampire Theory

[Fred Uloth]

No: HPFGUIDX 81047

At 10:10 AM 9/16/2003, davidseppi wrote:
><snip>For me, the greatest evidence that Snape is
>indeed a vampire is in POA when Lupin is sick and Snape is covering
>his class for him.  Snape has the class write parchment in how you
>can tell a werewolf.  He does this with obvious contempt towards
>Lupin.  When Lupin "recovers" and is covering for Harry in Snape's
>office after the Hogsmead visit, Lupin refers to their essay on
>vampires in Snapes presence.  I believe this is done to get back at
>Snape for his obvious insult towards Lupin.  Just some thoughts.
>Again, forgive me if this has already been covered, I'm a newbie.

This has been a very popular theory as it pops up quite often. There has 
even been debate as to whether the pickled things in jars are Snape's past 
meals.

The classic arguments for vampire!snape are:
- The bat-like descriptions he is given
- The possible Lupin retaliation mentioned above

The classic rebuttals against vampire!Snape are:
- The bat-like descriptions are just to give characterization and should be 
taken too literally
- Lupin is above such pettiness as retaliating for the werewolf essay

Additional anti-vampire!Snape:
- We've seen Snape outside during the daylight
- He appears to eat food
- There aren't any reference to fang-like teeth whenever he bears his teeth 
or sneers

The problem of course is that we have no way of knowing what Vampires are 
like in the Potterverse until Hermione starts spouting off about them. So 
the anti-vampire stuff may not be significant. As I've never really 
followed this thread before, I have probably missed some of the juicier 
pro-vampire theories and anti-vampire theories.

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Jason (who likes to pretend that he is Fred)