Do the Dead Walk?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 89128

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "davewitley" 
<dfrankiswork at n...> wrote:
> Pippin wrote:
> 
> > j) Some vampires are outlaws, hunted and slain by the 
Ministry 
> > of Magic (GoF)
> 
> Is this based on the exchange between (alleged or reported?) 
Rita  and Percy?<<

It's based on the claim of the besotted young wizard at the World 
Cup, GOF ch. 9, who claimed to be a Vampire Hunter who had 
killed about ninety of them.

Dave:
> I always understood this to mean that the MOM do *not* hunt 
down  vampires, and they a legal basis not to, which was about 
to be  quoted by Percy. <

The way I interpret it there are  Vampire Hunters -- like bounty 
hunters--whose job is to bring in rogue Vampires dead or alive 
(undead or alive?), while Rita was campaigning for a Final 
Solution. Vampires, as Beings and part-humans,  have  civil 
rights, but are subject to punishment if they break the law. Rita 
wants those rights cancelled and vampires stamped out.

Now of course there may be no such thing as a Vampire Hunter 
at all...more of JKR's celebrated ambiguity at work. 

> David, who can't remember the POA references<

Chapter 3
***
Harry looked into the shadowed eyes of Sirius Black, the only 
part of the sunken face that seemed alive. Harry had never met a 
vampire, but he had seen pictures of them in his Defense 
Against the Dark Arts classes, and Black, with his waxy white 
skin, looked just like one.
****
Chapter 10
****
Harry squeezed himself through a crowd of sixth years and saw 
a sign hanging in the farthest corner of the shop (UNUSUAL 
TASTES).

Ron and Hermione were standing underneath it, examining a 
tray of blood-flavored lollipops. Harry sneaked up behind them.

"Ugh, no, Harry won't want one of those, they're for vampires, I 
expect," Hermione was saying.
*****

Pippin
remembering that one cause of jaundice is the breakdown of red 
blood cells. Are healthy vampires white and waxy, while  jaundice 
is the symptom of a vampire who is not getting a proper  diet?