[HPforGrownups] Re: Traditional Vampirism

[Silverthorne Dragon]

No: HPFGUIDX 88779

Anyway to steer this back to the topic, there is no question in my
mind that the Bela Lugosi interpretation of  Stoker's Dracula has
influenced the appearance of Snape;  look at Rowling's picture of
him. It's in the photos section of this group in the Harry Potter
and Me folder


{Anne}

I'll answer the Lilith part later, since I'm still looking at reference
material and it'll take a bit for me to type it out ...but for now, I will
address this part of the post...I went and checked out Snape....and
honestly, I *can't* see it....Bela and Snape look nothing alike--other then
they're both wearing black, and Rowling has (convieniently for
pro-Snape-as-a-vamp folks *winks*) placed Severus in a decidedly 'Vamp-like'
pose...I DO have several pictures of Bela, one of which I have saved as a
file, so that I can show you what I mean...but I'm not terribly sure where
to send the pic to...

Anyway, my point is that when I set the pics side by side in my corel
veiwer...they really do NOT look at all alike-even the way Severus is
hunched up is not really one of Bela's 'poses' he affected, except maybe as
Dracula's last gasp before getting torched by the sun....as for the flowing
cloak, etc....that's par and parcel for many a 'dark' character, from The
Shadow, spies, vampires, Dr Jeckle and Mr Hyde, etc...it's not really a
'look' exclusive to vamps (and in Sev's case it seems to be missing a lot of
the actual costume that Bela wore in each of the Dracula movies...).