[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape NOT a Vampire (Was The Marauders are all Gryff...

[MadameSSnape at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 92276

In a message dated 3/5/2004 9:56:09 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
foxmoth at qnet.com writes:
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. 
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Sherrie here:

I don't think it's necessary to stretch to vampirism to explain any of these 
- particularly since the last one isn't even necessarily the case.  

Sharing of food traditionally creates a bond between people - one of the 
reasons why modern-day Witches usually share food at or after rituals.  Snape 
might choose not to eat at Grimmauld Place simply because he doesn't choose to 
share that bond with Sirius.  (Or doesn't want to get caught up in the dinnertime 
madness there... <G>)

Zapping flies in a darkened room?  Sounds like a typical bored teenager to 
me...  If he were a Muggle, he'd probably have had his headphones on, blasting!

As for his "near-blindeness in the Great Hall", I don't think that's 
supported by canon - unless he's had his eyes magically repaired, wouldn't his sight 
have deteriorated significantly in the intervening two decades?  No - I don't 
think he has his nose to the paper because he can't see, not at all.  I think 
it's simply that he's concentrating so hard on what he's writing.  I had a 
professor once (History of the Theatre) who teased me about EXACTLY that same 
thing - after I'd filled two blue exam books with one essay, with my nose 
"gradually approaching touchdown" on the paper.  And no, I didn't wear glasses - still 
don't to this day, nearly three decades later.

Sherrie
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