Snape as a Vampire

[Campbell, Anne-TMC-Rcvg]

No: HPFGUIDX 88239

Okay...I've been staying out of this ever since I spoke my viewpoint about a week ago, mostly because I haven't had a chance to go re-read the books and start gathering canonical evidence for either way, but the exchange between Kneasy and Filo struck me funny...and what struck me funny was those darn lollipops everyone keeps mentioning in Honeydukes.

Not arguing for or against here, but  a few things to point out--

1) In a business sense, keeping the lollipops for one or two local vampires in a container that obviously carries a lot of them is rather foolish from a financial POV...unless, the product is highly popular--which would indicate, I would think, that there has got to be a healthy vamp and/or hag population around somewhere (And not just Snape if he is one). Otherwise, it would behoove the storekeeper to make them available as a 'special order' item instead--if for no other reason than because the stock would likely go bad before it could all be purchased (and I suspect that even with spells to keep them 'fresh', those blood-suckers would go bad fairly quickly, simply because blood has a shelf life of just about nothing--if you all want, I'll go ask the guys in the hospital lab here just how long the stuff lasts out of the body). That's a strictly business sense thing, but Rowling seems to have her pulse on RL issues like that and will incorporate them into her writing, which is why I brought it up.

2) (Still not really 'for' or 'against' here, but this is the thought that got me started on the email).
Can any of you, even the ones who are all for the Snape as a Vamp theory honestly imagine him walking around with a lollipop stuck in his mouth? Seriously? At least not without giggling madly at the thought first, that it.

Talk about ruining your reputation...;)

Anne
(Not enough coffee and feeling silly)