[HPforGrownups] Re: De-bunking Count Snape

[Kathryn]

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Vivian

Also, I don't find it logical.
 
He sits at the head table and eats in public in front of the
students. (Vampires don't eat real food...)
 
He teaches class during the daytime and indeed seems awake at all
hours. (Only a vampire who has lived for centuries can endure
sunlight.)
  
K

I snipped the rest of the post although what I have to say applies to that
equally as much. I though the above quotes would be enough to illustrate my
point though.

Where are you getting all these hard and fast rules about Vampires from?
There are hundreds of different Vampire myths from around the world - you
could find a type of vampire that could or couldn't do absolutely anything
if you wanted to. Plenty of vampires in either legend or modern fiction eat
real food (it doesn't usually give them any nourishment but they *can* do
it). Some vampires are completely immune to sunlight, some have to be very
old, some merely have to have a sire with the ability to withstand it etc
etc. I seem to remember that in Buffy it was only *direct* sunlight that was
a problem, ambient daylight was fine - So Sev should be fine except when
outside then, and even then we have enough cloudy days in this country that
you could argue we don't know he's ever been outside in direct sunlight.

The fact is that we know almost *nothing* about how vampires work in the
Potterverse so there really is no way to judge whether Snape exhibits
vampirelike characteristics. We have no idea what JKR considers vampirelike
characteristics *are*!

Having said that I don't believe Snape is a vampire either - although we
have read about a certain animosity between Potterverese werewolves and
vampires and I can't think of anyone who likes our resident werewolf *less* 
..

K

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