So todays video is gonna be all about vampires in Harry Potter. As surprising as it may seem,
theres not too much focus on vampires in the wizarding world and they’re not mentioned
much by fans either. Hello everyone and welcome back to another video. Vampires in Harry Potter,
They do exist, they are looked upon as magical beings and I’m gonna talk about them in
as much detail as possible. I’m going to stick to how their portrayed by wizarding
world standards as they’re are different rules in different vampire franchises. In
addition to that, I’m going to reveal a character that JK Rowling developed for the
books that she eventually cut out. If you wanna find out who that is then keep watching.
Welcome back guys, so vampires in Harry Potter, Vampires in the wizarding world to be more
accurate. What is it all about? Well lets start with something big, something quite
surprising, and thats the fact that they are not immortal. The have a life span and eventually
die. Some of the oldest recorded living vampires in the wizarding world have made it to 200
years old. Now this is a massive deal in the vampire world as being immortal is part of
the vampires curse and what attracts wannabes in the first place, to chance to live forever.
I’ve checked several different franchises and not one of them had immortality crossed
off the list so its quite strange that JK Rowling would do that but I guess it’s her
way of standing out from the others. Vampirism is also considered a parasitic plague and
the person’s body does appear to die in order for the plague to take over so it’s
not entirely clear if the killing curse would be in any way effective. Garlic is quite potent
to vampires and can keep them at bay when its in close proximity and although they do
rely on blood as their primary food source, they can also eat regular fo od. As Vampires
are magical creatures, they therefore live in and are affiliated with the Wizarding
world.
There exists a Society for the Tolerance of Vampires, which by its given name, must
campaign for greater acceptance of vampires and their culture in the magical world, given
their seemingly malignant reputation. The wizarding world also set guidelines to prevent
exterminating vampires outright although Rita Skeeter has always thought differently as
she would love to see them ‘Stamped out”. Vampire nature is considered quite interesting
and are studied in first, second, and third year Defence Against the Dark Arts classes at Hogwarts
school of witchcraft and wizardry. This is because vampires, along with similar undead beings such
as Inferi, are considered dark creatures due to their highly parasitic and dangerous
natures. There aren’t too many accounts of close associations with vampires throughout
the Harry Potter books. Gilderoy Lockhart wrote a book entitled voyages with Vampires
where he claimed to have been able to force vampires to eat nothing but lettuce which
would fact end up killing them, not that he’d care anyway. There were also Vampire Hunters
in the wizarding world. During the 1994 quidditch World Cup, a wizard, who was trying to impress
some Veela, claimed to be a vampire hunter and boasted about killing over 90 of them.
Nothing was said about him or the situation again. Eldred Worple, who was a writer and
once tried to convince Harry Potter to write a biography, spent some time living with vampires
in order to get a better understanding of them for a book entitled “Blood Brothers:
My Life Amongst The Vampires”. The only reason I can imagine for him even being tolerated
would be because the vampires wanted the public to see them in a different light. Worple actually
befriended a vampire named Sanguini and brought him along to Slughorns Christmas party.
Sanguini was rather calm and seemed to have a level headed attitude to everything. He
grew bored rather easily and did have a fondness for attractive women. Whether that was to
feast on them or just enjoy their company was not entirely clear. JK Rowling has stated
that she didn’t include vampires more frequently in Harry Potter because she didn’t want
to touch the already perfected craft of their story.There was nothing she could add to nor
did she want to either especially as she drew her inspiration from British folklore while
vampires were Eatern European. I’ve always had a massive interest in vampires and the
many franchises that come along with them. So who’s the mystery character? Well JK
had always planned to include a vampire in the books, from the get go. She’s acknowledged
their existence judging from Sanguini’s appearance in the Half blood prince but a
certain vampire who went by the name of trocar, was to appear as a teacher from the beginning
of the story right back to the philosophers stone. Now Trocar was actually created very
early on, even before Severus Snape..
He was to be a teacher in Hogwarts and supposed to have constant run ins with harry, not taking
a liking to the boy who lived at all. He was even to become an adversary for harry as time
went on which makes this character seem quite interesting.. However, because Vampire mythology
was so well developed and open, there wasn’t much JK felt she could add to the character
that wouldn’t contradict the vampire stereotype consistently represented in literature and
film. She took the name trocar from the medical instrument of the same name..
In medicine a Trocar is sharply pointed shaft inserted into arteries or cavities to extract
bodily fluids, so obviously with it functioning the same way a vampire does when feeding,
she felt it was quite a fitting name. The point of having a vampire as a teacher could
have been most likely to see his struggles dealing with feeding, whether craving human
blood was an issue being around so many students, and it would be also interesting to see the
ministries take on having what they may believe to be a dangerous breed teach at the school…however
I don’t think we lost out too much in that degree as remus lupin does fill this void
very effectively in terms of suffering prejudice for a condition he can’t help.