A BIAS in the Pensieve: A Batty Idea About Snape

[melclaros]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, Barry Arrowsmith 
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:

> Unless there's a Black Ribboner involved.

Ah HA! I knew there was something about you I liked.




> The almost total blackout on information re: vampires in HP is a 
worry  and unlikely to be accidental. 


I don't think it's accidental, I think it's just not very important. 
It is late in the game now to introduce a whole new element and 
unless Jo plans to bring in an army of vampires to assist one side 
or t'other in the final showdown there's really no reason to persue 
the characteristics of a Rowling vampire. I don't think she's given 
the subject much, if any thought at all, which is why we have Lupin 
being considered human and being allowed his wand while we're told 
that beings (which include house elves, goblins, ghosts, merfolk an 
vampires and the like) can not even though one starts out human and 
supposedly becomes a vampire in much the same way one becomes a 
werewolf. Lupin was escorted off the grounds in a carraige--we heard 
nothing of him being stripped of his wizard status and sent to a 
zoo, or into the forest, did we? No, in fact he showed up again, a 
member in good standing of the Order. 



> 
> Could Sevvy be a bat animagus? Yes, though many fans think the 
> unregistered animagus thread is overdone already and would sling 
>he book at the wall if another turned up. 


Th Half-Creature's been done as well, we don't need another of 
those. It's fine the first time, but if it showed up again, this 
late in the game it would appear to be a cheap plot device for sure.



> in the way you mean. IMO the best fit for a vampire in HP is Voldy.

Now you're talking.



>> Snape. He's the one of the few characters in my mind's eye whose 
> imagined appearance and demeanour hasn't been modified by the film 
> interpretations. He remains a gloriously nasty customer, though 
with 
> the probability that there are events in his past that have made 
him 
> what he is. It'd be hard to reconstruct him, though I accept that 
I 
> could be forced to.



That is precisely what is so alluring about Snape. We have had to 
reconstruct him pretty much after every book. Those of you who know 
me from way back know I'm an unabashed Snape apologist. I think he's 
by far the most interesting character in the series for the reason 
that we know very little about him and every detail we learn only 
leads to more, more complex questions. And there are far more 
intersting questions than, "is he an animagus" and "is he a you-know-
what?"  

Mel