Snape IS TOO a vampire, was Re: NBC Today Show questions

[pippin_999]

Joywitch
> Seriously, though, I've never understood this love for Snape thing.
 
> He is a horrible person, who loves to humiliate the very children 
> whose education is his responsibility. Harry and Ron and Hermione
have 
> all been driven close to tears by the meanness of this so-called 
> Professor.  How can you reconcile loving those kids and, at the
same 
> time, being a fan of someone they loathe, just because he has an 
> intriguing personality and some dark secrets?

Pippin:
I dunno. I've never had a crush on a teacher in real life, much less
one so loathsome as Snape...but all I had to do was imagine for
one moment that I could actually be in the world of the books 
and Zap! There it was. They  should probably study  Eros in the 
Department of Mysteries...
but I suppose the fanfic writers are way ahead of me.<veg> 

Pippin