No fire in the office

[jakedjensen]

No: HPFGUIDX 87967

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Berit Jakobsen" 
<belijako at o...> wrote:


> Ron and Harry were ushered in there is useless as evidence for him 
> being a vampire, simply because we know he has kept a fire going in 
> his office at other times. To me, the best evidence for him being a 
> vampire is how Lupin makes the class write an essay on vampires not 
> long after Snape had made them do one on werewolves... That REALLY 
is 
> fishy :-). Combine this with Rowling's batlike descriptions of 
> Snape's appearance and the way he glides through the corridors, and 
> you have a case. Personally I am not so sure Snape is a vampire, 
but 
> I am keeping Lupin's vampire essay in the back of my mind...
> 
> Berit
> http://home.no.net/berjakob/snape.html

"Useless?"  If you read my original post you will see that this scene 
is not meant to be the end all on the Snape is a vampire theory, but 
rather, additional evidence.  That being the case, I can't see why it 
is "useless."  

We know it "is" cold in the basement (the canon says they are 
shivering it is so cold).  It may be September, but it is apparently 
cold and so cold that HP and McGonagall both look to the fireplace 
upon entering the office.  

Moreover, the fact that Snape lights a fire in book 3 is exactly the 
point.  It's not that vampire's prefer cold it is that they don't 
feel tempature.  Snape doesn't feel the temp.  In book 3 when Snape 
has a fire going he ultimately uses it to communicate with Lupin.  A 
fire is used for more than temp in the wizard world.  And he may keep 
fires going (as some have pointed out, he has his own students to 
think about) most of the time.  The point is that he doesn't seem to 
personally care about the temp.

Jake