Monstrous odds

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No: HPFGUIDX 96376

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> wrote:
> 
> What...no vampires? Kneasy, I'm surprised at you. Harry never 
> meets a monster that Hagrid hasn't met first, and in OOP Hagrid 
> had a run-in with a vampire in Minsk.
> 

Ah, Pippin. This brave but probably thankless crusade to persuade
others that vampires are integral to the plot is an example to us all.
The Theoriser's Creed:
"Never surrender. When canon supports, quote it endlessly; when it
doesn't - well, it's all a matter of interpretation, isn't it?"
Done it a time or two  myself.

What a fuss there'll be if you turn out to  be right. But like you I'll
stick to my guns; I might be wrong but I'm not uncertain.

Quoting the odds is not easy, there're rumours that vampires might
be non-runners, that they'll never see the light of day, that their
condition is grave and a stake-holder could finish them off entirely.
All in all, very much outsiders.

100:1.

This assumes  that JKR is not going to pull a fast one on us and
change their usual characteristics out of all recognition - something
she's already done with ghouls. If that happens, then Rule 1 applies.

Kneasy