[HPforGrownups] Brew Glory? Stopper Death?
rayheuer3 at aol.com
rayheuer3 at aol.com
Sun Apr 27 14:45:55 UTC 2003
No: HPFGUIDX 56277
In a message dated 4/27/03 3:36:28 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
errolowl at yahoo.com writes:
> Snape's opening speech keeps haunting me, primarily for
> its sheer poetry. And then the last few lines really hit home:
>
> SS 137:
> "I don't expect you will really understand the beauty of a
> softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate
> power of liquids that creep through human veins, bewitching the mind,
> ensnaring the senses...I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew
> glory, even stopper death-"
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I agree that the speech is basically poetry, but it has practical
applications....
Bottle fame: A mediocre actor who slips a Love Potion to all the major
critics will win many awards. Unprincipled, and probably illegal in the HP
universe, but doable.
Brew glory: Fame and glory can be had among wizardkind by brewing a new kind
of potion. By definition, Snape can't teach you the recipe, but he can teach
you how herbs and powders interact so that you can try something that hasn't
been tried before.
Stopper death: Just a poetic way of saying he'll teach you how to brew
poisons.
Why didn't Lockhart brew potions to win fame and glory? Perhaps he wasn't
good enough (Snape seemed to be the first to see through Lockhart's
posturing). Perhaps, for him, memory charms were the easier way.
JMNSHO
-- Ray
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