Advances Potion Making???
dungrollin
spotthedungbeetle at hotmail.com
Tue Mar 8 23:03:39 UTC 2005
--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman"
<susiequsie23 at s...> wrote:
>
> Entropy:
> > A bit below the title is the fuzzy name of the author. It looks
to
> me
> > to be Gilderoy (!) Borage.
> >
> > "Borage: As early as the 1600's, Europeans mixed borage leaves
and
> > flowers into a wine that was renowned for relieving boredom and
> > dispelling melancholy."
>
>
> SSSusan:
> You have EXCELLENT eyesight, Entropy!
>
> Oh, my. Another intriguing possibility here. With "Gilderoy"
> perhaps translated as "golden king" or "gilded king" [is that
> right?], then maybe the Potions author is the HBP?
>
> Or is the reference to "Borage" supposed to be the key -- a
typical
> JKR joke on Potions being ennui-inducing and dealing with Snape
being
> depressing for Harry?
>
> Becoming very silly in her giddiness,
> Siriusly Snapey Susan
Try this one:
http://www.mugglenet.com/viewer/?image_location=hbpadult.jpg
If that's an 'l' in the middle then it's Libalius Borage. Borage is
a herb (and it has a whole family, the Boraginaceae, named after
it), Libalius I'm not sure of.
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