[HPforGrownups] Snape as a Vampire

[Tanya Swaine]

No: HPFGUIDX 88260

At 06:19 8/01/2004 -0600, you wrote:

>Anne wrote:  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)


Tanya now.

I was giving this some thought yesterday.  I posted a bit on the economic 
side of the store stocks as well.  But before I decide one way or the other 
about this subject.  I want to see what type of vampires JKR has in her 
series.  But as far as I can see now.  I cannot imagine that Snape could be 
an undead vampire that would be such a let down.

Tanya

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