[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape Poisoning the Longbottoms? Was: Is Agnes Snape's Mother?

[IggyMcSnurd]

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> Carol
>I don't see any evidence for time off every week. Snape never leaves
>Hogwarts during weekends or even during the Christmas holiday until
>OoP. (JKR says that the teachers leave Hogwarts during the summer, but
>that's only three months out of the year.) Think about all the duties
>and concerns Snape has at Hogwarts, not least keeping an eye on the
>Trio. Aside from the fact that I think Snape merits Dumbledore's
>trust, it's just too much of a stretch to imagine him going out of the
>way to drug Neville's parents. 

Iggy here:

It might also be worth pointing out that in CS, Lucius Malfoy was
selling poisons to Mr. Borgan of Borgan and Burkes.  Borgan also
commented, after they had left, that he didn't believe that Malfoy had
sold him even half of the poisons in his house.

If Malfoy doesn't have the skill to make potions that would keep the
Longbottoms in their current state (and I believe he would, since
Slytherins seem to be adept at potions... appropriate for a snake...),
he definitely has the resources to have one made regularly and
administered to them.


BTW: I don't know if it's been mentioned or not, but there is a
significance of the name Burke in "Borgan and Burkes."  A long time ago,
medical universities in England offered cash for corpses... a decent
amount for the time, in fact... and they weren't all that careful to
check where they came from.  The better the condition of the corpses,
the better the pay, since they were used for medical studies.  Robert
Burke was a man who actually earned his living by murdering people, and
selling the bodies to medical schools.  He refined a special technique
of his own for killing people, that they named it after him...
"Burking."  (It's a method of suffocation...)


Iggy McSnurd