Two clarifications, was Re: Voldemorts Resurrection WAS loads of other things

[Amanda Geist]

No: HPFGUIDX 39753

Grey Wolf held forth:

> "The potion that has revived me tonight is an old treasure of dark
> magic"
> Snape is a grand master of potions, and we know that he knows dark
> magic potions: the polyjuice potion is in the dark arts section, so it
> is a dark art potion itself. It is not impossible to believe that Snape
> suggested the potion to Voldemort at some point in the past. In fact,
> it is very probable, especially if Snape was of the inner circle:
> Voldemort would have used him to advance his search on inmortality
> methods. We know Snape probably knows of this potion, in fact. That, or
> there are so many other methods to "stopper death" that I should simply
> rest my case.

First point--English usage. I would like to clarify those particular words
"stopper death." This is not an antique or quaint way of saying "stop"
death. In fact, they clarified it in the movie script, probably for this
very reason, although it damaged the flow of the speech irreparably ('put a
stopper in death,' indeed).

To "stopper death" is to put death in a bottle; it's a poetic way of saying
"to put death in a bottle and put the stopper in." Stopper = the cork, the
thing on top of the bottle.

So everything else in your argument aside (which I haven't been following
too closely), Snape is not saying he knows (or can teach) how to *stop
death*, he is saying he knows (and can teach) how to make deadly poisons.
Even if he knows anything about immortality potions, he's not talking about
them here.

Okay?

Second point, spotted as I re-read over this one. And LOON that I am, it
must be corrected. The book from whence came the Polyjuice Potion was from
the Restricted Section. NOT the dark arts section. I do not think Restricted
necessarily equals Dark; in all likelihood, plenty of non-Dark spells are
simply too complicated for the younger students to have access to. That
said, I therfore don't think you can call the Polyjuice Potion a "dark art
potion."

--Amanda