On Vampires
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:date: 2021-01-24T14:26:36
:category: faith
:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment

(my comment_ regarding vampires on AO3)

    Technical question of the day. Would the Homonum Revelius
    spell reveal a hiding vampire? I figure it will reveal
    a hiding werewolf but they’re still sort of human. Aren’t
    vampires supposed to be “dead” and so would such a spell
    reveal them?

I don’t like vampires. I think it was one of small jokes by JKR
which cannot be developed fully, because it really doesn’t work
with the rest of the universe. To the realistic bourgeoisie world
of more or less rationalist down-to-earth craftsmen, shop owners,
ministry officials, you suddenly get a creature which works in
completely different world: much more mythical, unearthly, etc.
Every fanfic story which tries to involve vampires more fully
ends with disaster (Northumbrian has his Auror Camelia Tepes, but
I think she doesn’t exactly fit into what proper vampire should
be).

Concerning Homenum Revelio, I don’t know. I think it so border
case, that both situations could be allowed. Again, vampires are
not only non-human (which works perfectly fine for house-elves,
centaurs, goblins), but they are not even alive. It is complete
mess. I just try to forget they ever existed.

.. _comment:
   https://archiveofourown.org/comments/263172883