Clues to 6&7 in POA film

[gregory_lynn]

No: HPFGUIDX 100205

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, 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...
> 


But in the modern corruption of the vampire myths, there isn't an 
easy way to tell.  Werewolves have an unavoidable monthly cycle which 
is easily visible by those in reasonably close contact.  Snape 
doesn't have the look of the real myth vampires with hooked ears and 
all that so if JKR sticts strictly to those sorts of things there's 
no way.  But if she doesn't, what about being a vampire can't he 
hide?  I don't think we've seen any references to crucifixes, holy 
water, or any of that sort of thing.  A dislike of garlic wouldn't be 
all that obvious.