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

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No: HPFGUIDX 88188

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "filo_roll" <filo_roll at y...> wrote:

(Heavy snip)
> 
> > Bloody strange vampire, IMO, not to exhibit vampire traits.
> > An even stranger vampire to do things no vampire ought.
> > If JKR unveils him as a vampire, I'll feel cheated. 
> > 
> > Kneasy

> filoroll:
> The traits you mentioned do not neccessary point to the fact that 
> Snape isn't a vampire.  JKR is probably devising her own vampires 
> with special JKR traits. 
>

Kneasy:
Tut, tut! Come, now! Let's have a modicum of sportsmanship. Play
the game.

I ask for evidence and you write fanfic! Not in PR are you?
I could counter by claiming that Snape really is Neville's grandmother
and that the Boggart he fears represents reality. (Where does Snape
go in the holidays, anyway?)

OK, JKR can do what she likes, but it would take some brass neck to
present a vampire with none of the characteristics famed in song and
story without some previous hint that in the WW accepted folklore is 
being so drastically re-written. I call that cheating.

It would be equivalent revealing that Flitwick is a rather short giant or
that Petunia is a heavily disguised Veela. It's just not on.