Lupin as a werewolf & Snape's potion

[Diana <dianasdolls@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 48825

Snuffles wrote:
>>So I was just curious as to why, other than his [Lupin's] 
statement about being a poor 
> potion maker, hadn't he been taking the potion since its 
discovery. 
> I would think something that made life so much easier for Lupin 
would be 
> something that he would have *learned* no matter how difficult the 
potion....<<
 
Millefiori wrote: 
> I've always thought that perhaps the potion is not only extremely 
difficult
> to make, but requires numerous rare and expensive ingredients - 
things Lupin
> (perpetually unemployed) couldn't afford.<<<


Me:  Good idea, Millefiori.  I could see a potion that powerful 
being very complex and expensive to make.  Also, if werewolves are 
as shunned in the Wizarding World as indicated in the books, then I 
doubt Lupin could have easily requested someone make if for him 
without giving himself away.  I do wonder, like Snuffles, if Lupin 
wouldn't have learned how to make the potion even if he couldn't 
always afford/find the ingredients just in case he could procur the 
ingredients or find a good friend to entrust with making it for 
him.  Or...maybe Lupin does know how to make it but through his poor 
potion-making skills bungled it a couple times.  If he bungled it 
and got horrible results, then he'd probably be too gun-shy to try 
it again.  

Diana