Snape & Re: _Harry Potter and the Bible_

[aprilgc at ivillage.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 17483

Brian wrote:
> Dave,
> There's plenty to be read on this topic - for instance, I found this 
> tidbit from a yahoo search "harry potter" and "antichrist".  
> Really....
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I just read the article you pointed to, and my indignation meter is off 
the scale.  I mean, REALLY.
As a parent I should be wary of allowing my child to become fascinated 
with Harry Potter because Harry uses DRUGS?  The very idea that Snape's 
speech in the first potions class could be construed as endorsement/
encouragement for drug (aka potion) use is ludicrous.
Then again, Snape is supposed to be REALLY good at potions.  Maybe V. 
would be willing to take Snape back in order to get his fix. 

Seriously, though, (and on - topic :^), is it possible that some of the 
measures V. used in his quest for immortality were potions?  In the 
graveyard, he says that his DEs knew the measures he had taken to 
ensure his longevity (not those words).  As such a good potions brewer 
and a "loyal" DE, wouldn't it have fallen to Snape to brew some of the 
potions?
If Snape were to return (with the couldn't get away when you called 
last time, but I've been waiting for you and got myself in good with 
the muggle-lovers -- and the acceptance of a couple cruciatus) would he 
assume the brewing duties again?  I'm assuming that V still doesn't 
want to die, and that his new body doesn't have the protections that 
his old one had (it is, after all, new).  He'll have to start the 
"anti-death" treatments over again.  Maybe Snape and Dumbledore have 
discovered that a few extra/too few drops of ingredient X will render V 
powerless, without changing the general appearance/substance of the 
potion?
I just figure that Lord V is not going to have time for both RULING and 
doing menial tasks like brewing potions (and while he let Wormtail brew 
one, I think that was necessity, not something he would ordinarily have 
done).
Just another train from la la land.
a.