No fire in the office

[jakedjensen]

No: HPFGUIDX 87925

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Amanda Geist" <editor at t...> 
wrote:
> 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]

This still doesn't explain why Snape does not light the fire (which 
is apparently easy to do) and McGonagall does.  I don't buy the 
torture logic.  I do not see any canon suggesting Snape is torturing 
the boys or that he wears a thicker cloak.  The torture scenerio may 
make sense if he is indifferent to cold (given that he is undead), 
but not if he is just a normal human being (this would be like 
putting someone under the heat lamp and then sitting there 
yourself....it makes no sense).  I don't buy that containers in the 
office would be adversely affected by the heat (McGonagall should 
know this or Snape should douse the fire if this is the case). 
Additionally, one does not "clean" a fire when it is cold outside.  
Embers are left, because they are useful.

Jake