No fire in the office

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 88021

 "koinonia02" wrote:
> "K":
> There's tons of canon supporting vampire/half-vampire Snape, isn't 
> there. <snip>> 
> I do agree with you on this particular scene but to be fair there is 
> another fireplace scene in Snape's office:
> 
> PoA/Ch 14/UK
> 
> Snape had aquirred a few more horrible slimy things in jars since
last time, all standing on shelves behindhis desk, glinting in the
*firelight* and adding to the threatening atmosphere.
> <snip>
> 
> He strode across to his fire, seized a fistfull of glittering powder 
> from a jar on the fireplace, and threw it into the flames.

Carol:
Excellent. You just destroyed the "no fire = Snape/vampire" idea with
one well-chosen bit of canon.
> 
> Jake: 
> >Indeed, 
> > vampires are the single most talked about magical creature in the 
> > entire series (and we have yet to actually encounter one).

Koinona:
> Yes. She's good at dropping little hints.

Carol:
This particular "hint" has all the marks of a red herring. The imagery
appears too often to give it any validity. Besides, what purpose could
be served by making Snape a vampire? How could he have been kept from
attacking the children and other teachers for all these years? And how
could he endure sitting by Quirrell, with his garlic-stuffed turban if
he were really a vampire? (I accidentally typed "garlic-studdded
turban." Now that would be a sight, wouldn't it? Right up there with
Luna's radish earrings. :-) )

Jake:
> >Perhaps the fact Snape do not mind the cold has something to do with 
> >his upbringings...geographically. I believed some people have 
> >speculated where Snape's family came from; maybe they are from the 
> >North. Some have pointed out his physical resemblance to Krum.
> 
Koinonia:
> It could be a hint as to where Snape's family is from but couldn't it 
> also be a hint as to what Krum might also be? <G> Surely we aren't 
> going to only see one vampire?

Carol:
Krum's being from Bulgaria makes it at least possible that he's part
vampire, just as Fleur is part Veela. I certainly think that if
there's a vampire, it's more likely to be Krum than Snape, but I see
no point in having either of them be only part human. As for Snape,
his last name is an English place name and he speaks with a cultivated
English accent (no I'm not thinking of Alan Rickman; I'm looking at
Snape's eloquence  in the book, in contrast with, say, Hagrid.) Not
your typical Slavic vampire!

Again, I don't believe for a moment that Snape is a vampire. Being an
ex-DE is quite sufficient as a strike against him, and the arguments
he used against having werewolf/Lupin as a teacher at Hogwarts could
be turned right around and used against him if he were a vampire. I
very much doubt that Snape could be a vampire without Dumbledore's
being in on the secret. And, that being the case, even if Dumbledore
allowed Snape to teach, he could not in good conscience allow him to
be alone with any student, much less with Harry, his only hope for
destroying Voldemort. Not to mention that Snape's contempt for
mudbloods and nonhumans would be the utmost hypocrisy if he were all
or part vampire.

Carol