Good-Guy Snape

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

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From: catlady_de_los_angeles
Subject: Re: Good-Guy Snape
Reply To: [Yahoo! #6574] Good-Guy Snape
Date: 8/10/00 10:02 pm  (ET)

> I think Snape was the first to concoct the Wolfsbane Potion.

I just had a thought about Wolfsbane Potion in my sleep last
night. Because Remus is (at least) a perfectly competent wizard, but
cannot make his own Wolfsband Potion, I had been assuming that it is
a *very* difficult potion to make, therefore requiring to be made by
someone who is exceptionally talented at Potions in particular not just
magic in general. In fact, I used that as 'evidence' that people with
meagre magic (only one step above Squibs) are handicapped at Potions as
well as Charms and Transfiguration.

But I suddenly thought that maybe it has nothing to do with being
a difficult potion, it's just that a werewolf can't make Wolfsbane
Potion. Maybe because one or more of the ingredients is poisonous to
him in its unblended, raw form. Maybe it's just that the Potion won't
work if made by a werewolf.