A BIAS in the Pensieve: A Batty Idea About Snape

[pippin_999]

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> Neri:
> Pippin, I suspect that this kind of argument doesn't help the 
vampire  theory with many members. You know, one feels that 
SOME Hogwarts  teachers should be just plain all-human 
wizards.<

Pippin:
But why? Perhaps you see the mixed species characters as 
merely a gimmick? I see them as the inevitable outcome of a 
closed society whose numbers are dwindling (If we hadn't 
married Muggles, we'd have died out) that largely refuses to hire 
or wed the Muggles and the Muggleborn -- surely the limited 
number of acceptable mates and new hires  would open doors 
for the desperate  and the unscrupulous, just as it does in real 
life. The wizards' refusal to recognize that this is happening also 
has its parallels in RL. 

> Neri now:
> I don't pretend to understand anything about fandom sociology, 
but  aren't vampires supposed to be sexy and fashionable? I'd 
think that  many fans' dearest fantasies would actually go very 
well with vampire!Snape. Especially when we know so little 
about Potterverse vampires,  so each of us can, in his/her 
fantasy, set the temperature of Snape's  coldness to the level 
that he/she likes.


Pippin:
I can only speak for myself, but I suspect you are mixing apples 
and oranges. The cooly elegant ageless vampire whose 
glamour tempts one to a life of  endless decadence, vs the 
grown up  ugly duckling whose bitterness is but the armor of a 
shattered soul against the heartless world. They don't mix. 

But as JKR is not, IMO, a romantic, and her world is nowhere 
near the escapist-friendly place it appears to be at first glance, 
part-vampire!Snape's inadequacies as a fantasy figure wouldn't 
bother her. 

Pippin