Re: Snape’s DE Past & HBP

[adragh]

No: HPFGUIDX 111420

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "tonks_op" <tonks_op at y...> 
wrote:
> Here is an idea that I don't know if anyone has come up with before.
> I think that it ties many of the loose ends about Snape together.
> 
> Lets say that Snape's father was a vampire. (I am not sure if this 
> makes Snape one or not, but he might have some tendencies in that 
> direction.) 

First of all, JKR has said Snape is not a vampire. Now, you might 
argue that being a descendent of one is not the same as being one. But 
now is where we must clarify which particular vampire mythos JKR is 
using. I would guess the standard (original) one. So let's take a 
quick look at that. Vampires in the standard form are not living human 
beings. Indeed, according to the AHD (American Heritage Dictionary) a 
vampire is "a preternatural being, in the common belief a reanimated 
corpse of a person improperly buried, supposed to suck the blood of 
sleeping persons at night." In any case, certainy NOT capable of 
procreating with a (living) human being. 

Any other sort of vampire is a derivation from a fairly recent source 
and therefore is not in the common domain and I rather doubt that Ms 
Rowling is going to commit flagrant theft of an idea that properly 
belongs to another author (or games company).

Adragh