chapter 10 and 11

During this chapter i have a feeling that Van Helsing knows more about the bites on Lucy's neck than he is letting on and that he knows more about vampires affects than he is letting on otherwise how would he know what to do after seeing the bites on her neck then deciding to go ahead with giving Arther's blood to Lucy. From this Van helsing has prescribed garlic as a medicine which is very much a vampiric repellent further giving me evidence for my theory on Van Helsing's theory. Something makes me not trust Van Helsin, perhaps because he is such an eccentric character or perhaps because he knows too much about all these things therefor meaning he has had some bad experience with what is happening now to Lucy.
Lucy is now drinking mass amounts of blood draining Arther, Jack and Van dry and perhaps they are not telling her because she may develop a lust for blood. In her diaries she complains of a bat flapping outside her window (presumably Dracula). If Dracula can change forms was he the dog that came from the boat? Along with this if it flaps outside her window every night then does it come back for blood? in which case that explains the garlic on her window sill and in her window. Having said this vampires aren't aloud in people's houses without permission so this may not be true that he is coming back for blood. All very confusing!
I was very frustrated with Mrs Westenra taking all the garlic and stuff away because i wanted to see the results of it being there rather than Lucy thinking she is better while everyone keeps giving blood.
As chapter 11 goes on i grow to like the zoo keeper who not only is quite a funny man but stood up to Dracula...Dracula! Calling him a bag of bones made me laugh at this man's innocence and although his talking was quite hard to read he put i light-heartedness on such a serious situation that has been occurring throughout this novel. The whole point of Bilder's story doesn't seem to have significance as we already know that Dracula can control wolves so none of this story made me shocked at all because basically its a wolf escaping then coming back. I'm thinking that at this point Bram was trying to show small events that all have links to the eventual main climax that he is building up to but that is the only significance i can think of for this part of the chapter.
Reading further into chapter 11 and seeing the fight between Reinfield and Jack Seward was perhaps changed to make Jack look like the hero which is what we would all do of course. Apparently Jack gets cut by Reinfield who is too strong for him then Jack gets "his right in" instantly making Reinfield crumble then the aids came in. I think that actually the aids came in while Jack was in the corner crying about his wrist! From this we learn that to vampires or that of vampiric followers "blood is life" which is very Gothic and sadistic all at once.
Having just finished the chapter i was shocked at the huge amount of terror that Bram had injected after a nice zoo keepers story. Lucy is gonna die? and now i see why the wolf story was so necessary because it was the same wolf that had scared Lucy's mother to death. It was very intimidating to read about a wolf and bat teaming up in the darkness shattering windows all for Lucy which begs the question, why is she so important to Dracula? what does she have that Dracula wants? and what will become of her in the next chapter? I shall have to read on.