[HPforGrownups] Re: No fire in the office

[Amanda Geist]

No: HPFGUIDX 87919

> > Thren wrote:
> >
> > What it suggests to me is that he hasn't been in his office lately

Jake:

> This seems unlikely.  To those out there who do not rely on fire as a
> primary source of heat, this may seem logical.  However, fires are
> kept going even when one is not around (when it is cold) even if it
> is just leaving the embers going.  The fact that there were no embers
> or anything in the fire is a sign that Snape simply does not (or has
> not recently) use the fire.

At the point when they enter his office, the implication is that Snape
hasn't been in there for a while. He's been out looking for Harry and Ron.
And found them.

The actual description said "the fireplace was dark and empty." In my
ongoing quest to debunk Vampire!Snape, I suggest that Snape had been off
doing the things teachers do to get ready for the influx of students, and
hadn't been puttering in his office much at all that day. And the elves had
cleaned it.

~Amanda
[Snape is *so* not a vampire]