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

[naamagatus]

No: HPFGUIDX 88681

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jakedjensen" <jakejensen at h...> 
wrote:
> 
> Fact: LV experimented with extending his life toward the end of the 
> reign of terror
> Fact: LVs followers switched from being known as the Knights of 
> [something or other] to the Death Eaters toward the end of the 
reign 
> of terror
> Fact: LV laments (end of GoF) that one DE may never return.
> Fact: Snape left the DE toward the end of the reign of terror and 
> joined with DD.
> 
> Theory: LV started to experiment on his own followers toward the 
end of the reign of terror.  There name, DE, literally meant that he 
was exposing some of them to potentially deadly things (in his 
> experiments)
> Theory: Snape, being the picked on one at Hogwarts, was also picked 
> on by LV.  
> Theory: LV transformed Snape into some sort of vampire like 
creature or just a plane old vampire).  LV was trying to perfect an 
> immortality technique, but it went wrong.


Jumping here to respond to this point: I think it utterly unlikely 
and completely out of character for Voldemort to do this. Not because 
he is a dear, warm hearted man, who wouldn't expriment on others, but 
because immortality is *his* to have (in his eyes). He might try 
stuff on others, but not anything that might, however remotely and 
dangerously, confer immortality on others. Think - if he made 
somebody immortal, then he couldn't kill him/her. This means that 
this person is at least his equal. But Voldemort is obsessed, or, 
more than that - his whole personality is organised around the 
narcissistic desire for ultimate power, which is symbolised most of 
all by immortality. Because immortality by definition means that you 
are unvanquishable. 

So. If Snape is a vampire (on which issue I have no clear opinions) 
then he became one by some other means. Definitely. 


Naama, very very sure