Snape a vampire? (was Snape's Patronus)

[happybean98]

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Jim wrote:

> > >JKR has said flat-out he's not.

> Luckdragon wrote:
> > Actually if I have the right quotation you are referring to JKR when 
> > asked if Snape is a vampire says, "Erm...I don't think so". This is 
> > not a flat out denial! She seems to hedge around a bit rather than 
> > saying "No!" Maybe a direct answer would have given too much away.

Julie: 
> With Snape's physical description (deliberately?)
> evocative of vampires, and JKR's hedging a bit on that question, I do
> think there's a good chance Snape has some connection to vampires/bats.

happybean98:

I too am holding JKR's answer suspect. It doesn't seem quite typical of her usual 'answering' style. 

Usually she acknowledges something about the question if the asker is on the wrong track. For instance, the Hermione/Draco SHIP question got a response that acknowledged how it might have come from the fact that some girls like Tom Felton's looks.

I was astonished that her answer to Vampire!Snape didn't include some reference to where we went 'wrong',for instance. 

"Well,Snape is rather unpleasant and nasty, but they don't serve blood at the school feasts, which he attends." Or maybe, "Snape's already a DE, isn't that enough for him to be going on with?" Or even, "No, he's not a vampire. Too much 'Silence of the Lambs' will do this to a person."

The uncharacteristic vagueness and lack of explanation makes me think she was pulling a 'Dobby' (when he denied the connection of Voldemort to the danger Harry was in during CoS.)

Some will think I'm in denial, but she didn't put it to rest as well as several other, much more unlikely  theories .

happybean98