A BIAS in the Pensieve: A Batty Idea About Snape

[pippin_999]

Kneasy:
> > The possibility of a Snape/Vampire connection was one of 
> > these - "Er - I don't think so" to my mind has the implication 
> > that Sevvy is not a Vamp, if he were the question would have 
> > been on a (to her) known character twist and would not be
> > unexpected and would have been prepared for with either a 
> > "wait and see", "I can't tell you", "what do you think?" or
> > some other deflecting reply.
> 
Mel:
> Exactly. 


Pippin:
But the vampire clues are subtle, under the radar ones,  just like 
the clues in Book One that Scabbers wasn't an ordinary rat, or 
the clues that Ginny wasn't a shrinking violet,   so an "I can't tell 
you that!" would give away almost as much as a "well-spotted!"

If Snape is eventually revealed to have some vampire heritage, 
we'll be able to see this answer as a teaser for those who 
guessed which simultaneously preserved the shock for those 
who consider it completely unthinkable. Very clever of JKR, if you 
ask me.

Assuming that fans ask her the same questions that we ask 
each other, the vampire issue must have come up quite 
frequently in her mail, so it would hardly be a shock to her.

And as you say, Mel, she seems to enjoy faking people out. I 
thought that was fun in OOP, like the phony deaths in Star Trek, 
The Wrath of Kahn. Everybody knew that a character was going 
to die, so why not run with it?

Pippin
who enjoys finding out that other people have very different takes 
on the canon