English food revisited

[geoff_bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Phil Vlasak" <phil at ...> wrote:

Phil Vlasak:
> Hi Nicol,
> It wouldn't be fare to use the same puzzle as all the book readers can look up the solution instead of figuring it out.
> Once you know the potion in the smallest bottle will take you forward, it is too easy.
> 
> I thought of this that I call the Rainbow bottle puzzle
>   7 bottles of poison each a different color
>   1 red, 2 orange, 3 yellow, 4 blue, 5 indigo, 6 violet, 7 black.
>   Only one mixture of the bottles will cancel out the poison in each.
>   You mix half of two bottles to make green,then mix half of two bottles to make purple and add that to the green.
>   If you drink the mixture you will go forward.
>   answer,  
>   spoiler\
>   space
>   half of 4 plus half of 5 equals green
>   half of 1 plus half of 5 equals purple
>   mix those to get through the fire.
> 
>   This uses color theory as the answer and could be discovered easy using google.
>   What do you think?

Geoff:
Perhaps I have accidentally entered an alternate universe...

What has the above to do with Lemon Curd, treacle and Marmite?

Answers to be written on A4 paper, using one side only and brought 
to Professor McGonagall's room by 09:00 tomorrow.