Will someone be poisoned?

[theresnothingtoit <mi_shell16@hotmail.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 48499

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "linfuso <binfuso at e...>" 
<binfuso at e...> wrote:
> Forgive me if this topic has ever come up before but with all the 
> emphasis on Snape and potion making, it seems likely that someone 
> will be poisoned in future books.  

I can see someone being poisened in the very near future, possible 
Hermione, and Snape being the only one who notices her symptoms are 
of this particular poisen and hopefully an antidote.

> Will they live or die?  What kind of poison will be used?  Any 
> theories?
> 
> Personally, I think the "sleeping death" potion will come up 
again.  
> Maybe Rowling will make one of her characters appear to die by 
> poisoning, only to have someone figure out they're only "sleeping" 
> and cook up an antidote. 

The first time I read PS/SS I had the strongest feeling that this was 
foreshadowing a future plot line.  Why would Snape choose this 
particular potion to as Harry about?  I feel it would be very rare 
for a first year to need this sort of information.  The "stone in a 
goats stomach" seems a common cure for poisens seeings as it will 
save you from most and this information is probably highlighted in 
most potion books.  But I can hardly see Snape wanting to teach First 
years about "a sleeping draught so stong it is known as the Draught 
of the living death", at least I think that is what he says.  It has 
a very "Romeo and Juliet" feeling to it.  Or should that be a 
very "Ron and Hermione"...

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