De-bunking Count Snape

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 124996


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kathryn" 
<kcawte at n...> wrote:
>
> 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* 
> ..
>

Pippin:
Animosity between Potterverse vampires and werewolves? 
Where? 

Not only do we not know enough about Potterverse vampires to 
rule Snape out, we don't know enough about Rowling to say that 
she never gives trick answers. She has said that she won't be 
"full and frank" in her interviews, that readers like to be tricked, 
and after announcing that everything we read on the website 
would be true, she used it to make us think that she was still 
working on the HBP when she had finished it. Fool me twice...

Whatever the explanation for Snape's eccentricities, I don't think it 
can be that he's just, well, eccentric. A lot of wizards are 
eccentric, but it's usually clear even with them when a character 
is hiding something.  Snape is obviously hiding something 
about his background (Rowling *says* it's hinted at)  beyond 
having been a Death Eater.  With that missing bit of information, 
the  reader should be able to go back and explain it all to himself 
without Snape having to pause somewhere in the end chapters 
of Book Seven and say:

*This* is why I looked white as a youngster but I'm yellowish 
now, and *this* is why I wouldn't eat at Sirius's house, and *this* 
is why I was fascinated with my reflection in the Foe Glass, and 
*this* is why Lupin assigned the vampire essay and *this* is why  
the  Marauders hideout was behind a mirror and 
*this * is why I never go out in daylight if I can avoid it, so you 
rarely see me at a Quidditch game although I am an avid fan.

So I challenge the debunkers: can you come up with *one* 
missing bit of information that explains *all* of the above?

Pippin