Snape a vampire? Different explanation

[Diana Walter]

No: HPFGUIDX 88450

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Eric Oppen" <oppen at m...> wrote:
> No, I don't think for one second that Snape's a vampire.
> 
> There's a perfectly reasonable alternate explanation for his 
behavior.
> 
> He's a Goth.

Me:
You know, I hadn't been thinking about it as an explanation for his 
vampire-like traits, but while I was reading the Pensieve scene I 
pictured him as a Goth (with a striking resemblance to a friend of my 
brother's), and the image really clicked. Then I pictured his adult 
self as a Goth-grown-up. It was incredible; Snape had never seemed so 
real to me. So, while I'm not making any definitive statements about 
what Snape is or isn't, I do think this particular way of viewing him 
really helps his attitutes and relationships with everyone make sense.
                                  --daw