Clues to 6&7 in POA film

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 100157

 KuteJCLuvr at a... wrote:
>  
> 
> I also can't help thinking that *if* Snape is a vampire, Hermione 
already 
> knows.  Hermione knew right away that Lupin was a werewolf from the 
essay Snape 
> made them write, so when Lupin made them write the vampire essay, 
she would 
> have figured it out if it were true.  That said, if it *is* true 
and she *does* 
> know that Snape is a werewolf, then why would she keep that from 
her friends?  
> She didn't tell Lupin's secret, but she *liked* Lupin.  If she is 
hiding this, 
> what else could she be hiding?  Hermione tends to know so much more 
than she 
> lets on.  I can't help thinking she knows what the bat clues mean.  
She *is* 
> JKR's voice, afterall...
> 
> 


Potioncat:
I think Hermione knows something about Snape that she hasn't told.  
In at least OoP, she seems to defend him from time to time.  As you 
said, she has been known to keep things from the boys. IMHO, whatever 
she knows has either made her trust him or pity him.

Potioncat  who tips her hat to Pippin for reviving the vampire 
controversy.