Snape a vampire? (was Snape's Patronus)

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 107156

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "koinonia02" <Koinonia2 at h...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Miller, Gina (JIS)" 
> <ginamiller at j...> wrote:
> 
> 
> Gina:
> > Have you noticed she left vampires out of FBWTFT? I grabbed that 
> >book off the shelf to see where her idea of vamps were so that I 
> >could compare them to Snape, but ALAS! There was not a single 
> >mention of vampires in the book. There was just about every other 
> >creature, but NO vampires.....
> 
> 
> "K":
> 
> Oh, vampires are there.
> 
> FB 
> 
> The centaurs objected to some of the creatures with whom they were 
> asked to share "being" status, such as hags and vampires... 
> FB/xiii 
> 
> 
> I'll list most of the vampire references in the books later today.
> :-D
> 
> 
>   
> > Gina - who still thinks Snape is a vampire.

JKR has said flat-out he's not.

There's characteristics of vampires that made it seem unlikely that
Snape was such, even without JKR's word.

Jim F.