Snape NOT a Vampire (Was The Marauders are all Gryffindors)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 92198

> Tanya again
> 
> Right, have been giving this some thought.  Firmly still on the 
fence. However when the question asked was there a 
connection, it didn't ask if he was one.  Now, I may have this 
wrong, but in my understanding of English.  Connection could 
mean several things.  He has vampire friends, or even one in his 
family.  I have trouble seeing as it meaning he is connected yes 
or no, but being one or not.<<

Well, I've had a chance to sleep on it and I can say, at the risk of 
sounding like an Anybody-but-Ron/Hermione shipper,  it *is* an 
equivocal answer. As in "I don't think so...I *know* so."
And that reminded me of this little canon tidbit from PS/SS ch.8.
----
At the start of term banquet, Harry had got the idea that Professor 
Snape disliked him. By the end of the first Potions lesson, he 
knew he'd been wrong. Snape didn't dislike Harry--he *hated* 
him.
-----
(emphasis JKR's) 

So I may have to recant my recantation [I can hear Amanda 
groaning from here] .  There are alternate explanations for all the 
vampire clues, but I find none of them as cogent as a vampire 
connection. Those of you who would like to review the clues 
pre-OOP are directed to my published works :-)

http://www.hpfgu.org.uk/faq/mysteries.html

The OOP clues are: 
ch4 Snape's refusal to eat at Grimmauld Place
ch 26 Snape's    memory of zapping flies in a darkened room
contrasted with
ch 28 his near-blindness in the brilliantly lit Great Hall, his
pallid appearance "like a plant  kept in the dark"  and his 
preference for deep shade when out of doors. 


For information about JKR's vampires see the HP Lexicon

http://www.hp-lexicon.org/bestiary/bestiary_t-z.html

En Garde!

Pippin
who will just have to put on her battle helmet instead of her hat, 
and ask Amanda to save the conciliatory butterbeer for another 
day :-)