[HPforGrownups] Re: No fire in the office

[Thren]

No: HPFGUIDX 87946

jakedjensen wrote:

>This seems unlikely.  To those out there who do not rely on fire as a 
>primary source of heat, this may seem logical.  
>
Thren:

Ah, but I *have* had to heat by fire. :) I know very well how *normal* 
fires work, but most wizards seem to work by *magical* fire. Point wand, 
and BOOM! Roaring fire, as though it's been going for hours. You need 
embers in a conventional fire, but if you can just 'point and flick', so 
to speak, you don't (because you can make a roaring fire out of thin 
air- you don't need to bring one up).

Also, if Snape has become used to the cold (remember- at that point it 
was what, eleven years down in the dungeon office, *on top* of the fact 
that he spent seven years in Slytherin, whose rooms are also in the 
dungeon) he might not need a fire- September 1 is rather early in the 
year to be keeping a fire going all the time (sayeth a Canadian, just so 
you know what my perspective is on cold).

I also think you're probably looking too closely at the text to see what 
you want to see. Plenty of people do it- that doesn't mean it's actually 
so. If only *some* people who are *specifically* looking for proof to 
back up a certain claim are seeing this 'proof', I think it's fair to 
say that this 'proof' is suspect. To be sure, there are many hints of 
things to come, and I suppose we can't say *anything* for sure until the 
series is over; but I think it *highly* improbable that Snape is a 
vampire. If he was, I'd be extremely disappointed in JKR. She can do 
better than that.