Potions and Squibs

[anglinsbees]

No: HPFGUIDX 37880

Well, You have to figure that the magic has to be added to the 
potion somehow- and if not from the wizard, then from where?  The 
ingredients alone are probably not enough.  The only analogy I can 
thing of is a religious one.  (Forgive me for bringing in religious 
beliefs, but I can think of no other analogy, and no disrespect is 
intended.) 

When a priest performs the Eucharist, the wine and bread are 
transformed into somenting beyont their ordinary substance.  If you 
are not a priest, it doesn't matter how perfectly you recite the 
prayers and perform the ceremony- it's not the real thing.  If you 
arent a prioest, then you dont have the "Right Stuff" and it just 
isn't going to work.

I see potions as being the same.  If you arent a Wizard, then no 
matter how perfect your technique is, the potion isnt going to have 
that activating energy- the magic.

As for divination- it's not the cards, crystals and tea leaves that 
tell a good diviner what to say.  They are merely a focus to get the 
diviner in the proper frame of mind to read the client.  (The best 
real world readers I know say they dont read cards, they read the 
client- the cards are just a prop for the best of them.)  It hink 
this would be true in the Hp-verse also.  Trelawn's one real 
prediction that we witness is not inspired by any of her 
paraphenalia, but instead, drops in from an unknown source. To me 
this means the tru gift comes from within. 


Ellen A.K.A. Moriel Malkin
A pottering beekeeper

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Ahketsi at a... wrote:
> "Secondly could squibs make potions?
> There doesn't seem to be any magic used in the class.
> The students just put ingrediants in."  -Eclipse
> 
> Yes, but do you think potion brewing is something that even 
muggles could do 
> if told how? Squibs are basically muggles related mostly or 
entirely to 
> wizards, right? Anyway, I thought that maybe wands are needed to 
stir potions 
> for them work, or maybe the person inserting the ingredients must 
simply be a 
> witch or wizard. Or maybe you're right and it just depends on 
having the 
> ingredients. 
> 
> -Jacey