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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