Vampire/Half Vampire/Schvampire -was all the other vampire Snape stuff

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "koinonia02" <Koinonia2 at h...> 
wrote:> 
> I must ask how it is patently obvious that Snape wasn't a half-
> vampire at the age of 16? I belive just the opposite so I'm 
curious.
> 
> "K"

Never said he was or wasn't half a vampire, a quarter vampire or 
touched with the vampire brush even, just that it was patently 
obvious that he was NOT A VAMPIRE at sixteen - unless he had a body 
shield that enabled him to walk around in sunlight.  

I'm talking traditional vampire here, and not Ann Rice's stuff.  
Anyhow, he's canonically sixteen years old at the time of the 
Penseive scene and therefore not some Ricean "Child of the Milennia" 
who if I recall were only briefly able to expose themselves to the 
sun and survive.

I have a British word (rather anglo-saxon in origin!) for the half-
vampire idea but am not allowed to use it on list.  I have similar 
British words for vampire theory too.  

This "vampire" watches day time quidditch matches, apparently 
unshrouded from the daylight, functions without problem - in the 
daytime.  Perleeze.  Staying up late is NOT conclusive proof of 
vampirism.  When I don't have work to think about in the morning, I 
quite like to stay up until 2 am - that does not make me a vampire.

And JKR has not tinkered with the traditional werewolf canon - so 
why should she play about with the vampire idea and change the rules 
to suit herself?

>From half or any other fractions of vampirism I wouldn't know.  Like 
Kneasy - I simply believe it would not serve the plot one iota.  
It's a red herring - all you Snape is Vampire fans - believe it, and 
get over it!

Psychotic nutter!Snape - I can buy that,even welcome it as 
interesting at least, ArchTraitor!Snape - fine, 
Totallyinitforhisownagenda!Snape - no problem with that.  These 
probabilities make the character interesting.  JKR likes him best of 
all her characters (and so do I) - just a two dimensional vampire? 
Give her some credit.

If he is being set up as the personification of a moral dilemma at 
the heart of the book (and I believe that is the case) then let's 
have a flawed and realistic adult human being wrestling with it, not 
some undead thing or half-breed.

And for what it's worth - I think the final truth will be 
TragicallyRedeemed!Human!Snape.  So there.

June

Amd is this a record for the number of ExclamationMark!Snape's in 
any single post?