[HPforGrownups] Why ole Snapey is a vamp was Re: No fire in the office

[Dennis]

No: HPFGUIDX 88100


{Pippin wrote:}

OOP evidence, briefly:
Snape's refusal to take meals with the Order

(Anne's Response}
Which could as easily be, as I and others have pointed out, that Snape does
not wish to have any more memories of the Order members as friends and.or
allies than is absolutely necasary so that there's far less memories in his
mind to support that fact should Voldy start seriously digging for proof
that it's true.

Or, if you really want to discard that theory, then there's the one that
also fits in which is Snape is a truly antisocial bastard and although he
works with these people sees no reason to sup with them.

Third reason? It's Sirius's house. How many of you would be willing to eat
dinner in the house of the person you most dislike, and certainly have
difficulties being civil to if you didn't HAVE to be there?

There are far more reasons than Vampirism for him not to stay at Grimauld
Place...not to mention that he DOES eat with the other teachers at Hogwarts
during dinner, in full veiw of students--so not needing normal human
sustanence doesn't hold much water either.

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Now Dennis:

Haven't we seen Professor Snape eating a regular meal?  He sat down with
only 12 other people for a Christmas feast in Harry's third year, right?
Granted Harry was a bit distracted by Trewlawney's dire predictions and
again by the news that Snape was making Lupin more potion, but surely one of
our three heroes would have noticed if Severus had foregone the turkey in
favor of a vat of blood.  And surely he had to eat, or Harry would have gone
all paranoid that he'd poisoned the feast as he thought he might have been
doing to Lupin.

In light of this, I have to agree that meals should be considered a red
herring clue.  As for the other clues, I don't see enough to make me think
Snape is even half vampire, though one never knows what clues the next book
will reveal.  He's too complex a character to have his foul attitude and
overbearing demeanor explained away by his being simply half undead.  No, I
think it's something much more than a bite to the neck that's made him as
bitter as he is even into adulthood.  Harry was traumatized living with the
Dursleys, but he got over it once he got to Hogwarts.  It seems Snape's
abuse continued even when he got away from the man in the penseive thanks to
James and Sirius' tricks.  I'm willing to bet he's putting up with something
going on even now, just to help Dumbledore and the Order out.  

No wonder he's cranky when Neville melts a cauldron...  We've seen a reason
for him to pick on Harry (revenge), and I think he picks on Neville because
he senses weakness, and that's one thing he can't stand given the strength
it's taken for him to survive all his traumas.  He's trying to make Neville
stronger, he's just not very kind or fair in approaching it.  Still haven't
decided if some of the abuse comes from his knowing that one of these two
will have to end Voldemort's reign or not, but that seems a reasonable
theory for its intensity.  I've been re-reading looking for clues that might
indicate what Snape knows, but there are pretty few.  I figure it'll be
another book or two before we know.  Ah well...

Dennis