HP and Dracula (Re: More Snape (might) be a vampire canon)

[iris_ft]

No: HPFGUIDX 88203

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, eloiseherisson at a... wrote:
[Huge snip, sorry Eloise]
> 
> On reading Dracula (a vampire who did go abroad in daylight), I 
have to say 
> that the character who came most to mind was Voldemort, with the 
red eyes, the 
> mind connection thing with Mina Harker which is very similar to 
the way Harry 
> witnesses Voldemort's experiences through his dreams (and 
additionally the 
> realisation of both Dracula and Voldemort that this was 
happening), the fact that 
> Voldemort, in vapour form and possibly earlier was 
arguably "undead", having 
> gone through transformations which seem to have made him less than 
human yet 
> immortal and the whole idea of "death eating" whatever that is 
precisely, but 
> which has overtones of preying on the deaths of others as Dracula 
sucked the 
> life from his victims. 
> 
> ~Eloise

Iris now:
I'm glad you mentioned Dracula. I just didn't know where to put 
this: when I read OotP,the image of Snape killing flies in his 
teenager's dark bedroom made me think of Renfield, killing flies in 
his loon asylum's cell. He was waiting for "his master". Was young 
Severus waiting for Voldemort? 

One Knut,

Amicalement,

Iris