Vamp 'til ready

[Barry Arrowsmith]

No: HPFGUIDX 88426

Ever willing to stir the pot, particularly  when others have made 
contributions that encourage my perverse mind to explore new paths, I 
offer the following comments recently made on the site for the 
consideration of lycanthrophiles:

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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.
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and:
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Jake:
(4) Snape is skilled at reading minds (a power attributed to vampires 
in many myths),
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Kneasy:
Maybe they do. But do they have to have a wand to cast spells to do it?
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As you may have deduced from recent posts, I'm not a devotee of the 
vampire genre. I  prefer evil brewed by the subtle, nasty mind of a 
rogue human (it gives me  scope to fantasise that I could wreak similar 
torment on those that annoy me), rather than the sort originating from 
a variant of the bogey man. So, ever considerate to needs of others who 
may end up feeling deprived unless they have their appetite for the 
macabre sated, I wondered just who could be thrown onto the site to 
satisfy their unnatural lusts and thus leave the Snapeologists to the 
quiet, appreciative contemplation of the down-right nastiness of their 
favourite villain.

Voldemort will do nicely.

As Eloise points out, Dracula, as the original fictional and best known 
representative of the breed in Western literature, shares, or shows 
some similarities to Voldy. So do other vampires -  this 'cheating 
death' (undead?) thing, the placing of thoughts into the minds of 
others, the red eyes, the ability to survive in non-human form, either 
animal or as a vaporous spirit, the possible meaning of the phrase 
'death eater', the avoidance of  daylight (how many times in the canon 
has Voldy or Quirrell without his turban, exposed himself to the sun?), 
the pale  complexion, the unnaturally long fingers (Nosferatu), the 
vampire as the epitome of evil. Even the postulated attraction of Bella 
to Voldy would be explained; the Victorians used vampires as a sexual 
metaphor, didn't they?

Jake mentions that in some vampire legends the ability to read minds is 
accepted; I responded with the comment about them not needing wands, 
unlike Snape. But there are clues that this is an attribute of Voldy; 
doesn't he do just this at the climax to PS/SS?
"He lies...he lies...[]...now why don't you give me that stone in your 
pocket?"

Why bother with Snape when Voldy seems to be typecast?

Fair do's; I've offered arguments as to why Snape isn't a vampire.
Now it's your turn; show me why Voldy isn't.

Kneasy
  
  

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