Requiem
This is an explanatory post for Requiem. Please do not click on the cut unless you have read the story, or actually want to be spoiled.
Explanation: Draco has become a vampire. While soaring above the graveyard in bat form, he sees Hermione and she becomes his prey. Due to Draco's insatiable craving for her blood, she falls ill and dies. Because she has been bitten by a vampire, she becomes one after her death.
Below are the resources I used to write this story:
"We know that they once were people but now are dead; that they can't stand sunlight and spend their days in their coffins; that they have no reflections in mirrors because they have no souls; that they cannot enter a house without being invited but once invited can enter again and again; that for convenience they can change into vampire bats; that they drink the blood of others with the result that these others become vampires after death; and that, being dead already, they're very hard to kill, the effective methods being beheading, cremation, or a stake through the heart."
Traits of vampires
- Vampires, being already dead, do not need most normal things required for human life, such as oxygen. They often have a pale appearance, and are cool to the touch from the perspective of humans.
- Some vampires can fly. Sometimes this power is supernatural, other times it is connected to the vampire's ability to turn into flying creatures (e.g., bats, owls, flies) or into lightweight forms (e.g. straw, dust, smoke) and then create winds as a means of propulsion.
- Vampires typically cast no shadow and have no reflection. This mythical power is largely confined to European vampiric myths and may be tied to folklore regarding the vampire's lack of a soul. In modern fiction, this may extend to the idea that vampires cannot be photographed.
- Vampire powers are often limited during the day or in daylight. In some cases sunlight may burn or kill vampires, or they may be comatose during the day.
- Vampires in some tales have very specific dietary requirements while others do not. However, most tales of the undead feature vampires that cannot eat (or at least cannot gain nourishment from) normal human food.
Vampires and more
How to Become a Vampire: "Being bitten by a vampire or drinking the blood of a vampire is the most common way. Not having been buried properly or your dead body reflected in a mirror could turn you into a vampire. If a cat jumps over your dead body before being buried, you could become a vampire. (In Romania this is cured by putting a piece of iron into the body's hand). If you have red hair, after death you'll turn into a vampire (according to the Egyptian and Greek mythology). If you are a wizard/witch or the seventh son, you could become a vampire. Victims of unavenged murder are also likely to become vampires."
The Vampire Legend
Mozart's Requiem: "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote the Requiem mass in D minor (K. 626) in 1791. It was Mozart's last composition and is also, perhaps, one of his most powerful and recognised works."
Mozart's Requiem (Information, Lyrics and Translation)
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