New vampire theory was Re: Basilisks and Cocatrice.

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 96305

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Silverthorne" 
<silverthorne.dragon at v...> wrote:
> Pippin writes:
 Just like certain listies disregard the Snape-vampire clues 
because they "know" that vampires are dead and crumble to 
dust in the sunlight ;-)
> 
> {Silverthorne}
> 
> *hehe*
> (Thinks of Alan Rickman sprouting fangs and decides that's 
almost as funny looking as "I'm as anatomically impared as a 
Ken doll" ^^)
>

LOL! But that gives me an idea. We've always wondered why, 
after Snape makes such a big deal about being the one to brew 
the mandrake potion, he doesn't do it. Poppy does. Now, it 
occurs to me that stirring up enough potion to disenchant a kitty 
is one thing, but by the end of Book Two there are a lot more 
victims.  Suppose that Snape is now no more a vampire than I 
am (happy, Amanda?), but  contact with a huge batch of 
restorative draughts, enough to return four humans, a ghost and 
said kittycat to their original state, might have unfortunate 
consequences, to say the least.

Suppose that the hook-nosed man in Snape's memories is his 
father, a vampire who passed for human. But that's not good 
enough for our Severus, he wants to be a human indeed. He 
wants to be a Slytherin  and later, one of  Voldemort's 
humanity-firsters. (Yeah, yeah, I know. But picking only 
pure-bloods is a rule, and we know what Slytherins think about 
rules, don't we.) And Voldemort, who has a use for him, accepts 
him into the fold.

Maybe this is where the mysterious switching spells come into 
play. Could one of those dangerous and difficult transformations 
Voldemort went through, consorting with "the very worst of our 
kind" have allowed him to trade the last of his humanity for a 
vampire's attributes, like maybe long life and resistance 
to death spells?

Did Snape,  like the little mermaid, acquire a human heart if not 
quite a human soul, and find that he no longer had the 
ruthlessness to be a Death Eater? Is that the story Dumbledore 
believes?


Pippin