Life-saving bonds

[jmgarciaiii]

No: HPFGUIDX 94593

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
> > Harry and Ron are discussing Snape and what happened to Mr. 
Crouch....
> > 
> > "Maybe-hang on-how fast d'you reckon he could've gotten down to 
the
> forest ?   D'you reckon he could've beat you and Dumbledore 
there?"   
> > 
> > "Not unless he can turn himself into a bat or something," said 
Harry.
> 
> 
> And of course he *didn't* do any such thing, which pretty much
> indicates that he couldn't, any more than Sirius could turn himself
> into a potted plant as Hannah Abbott suggested. 

I'm curious as to why you think that didn't=couldn't.

> Carol, who thinks that JKR has sufficiently quashed the vampire 
theory
> and wishes we'd drop the subject

I don't think the vampire hypothesis has had a stake driven through 
its heart and to illustrate, here's the actual JKR quote from Mar. 
4/04...

<<Megan: Is there a link between Snape and vampires?
JK Rowling: Erm...I don't think so.>>

1- As I mentioned previously, that's hardly a rock-solid, no-two-
ways-about-it refutation.
2- Since the question was NOT "Is Snape a vampire?" JKR has the 
wiggle-room to say, should Snape turn out to be a vampire, "He's a
loner vampire, so he's not linked to any other vampires in the 
least."

-Joe in SoFla, who doesn't think that JKR has said "no" so much as 
she has said "not yes."