Wolfsbane and vampires

[Bridget]

No: HPFGUIDX 86647

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "romerskesims" <gawain at o...> 
wrote:
> I read a HP quiz book with questions about the 1-3 book (It's a 
> Danish book, and I don't think it's available in English), and 
there 
> was a question saying "What creature does wolfsbane protect 
against? 
> Yetis, vampires or trolls?" and the answer was "vampires"...but 
> where is that mentioned in the books? 
> And if it's true, then the vampire!Snape-theory is useless, since 
he 
> as a vampire wouldn't be able to make the wolfsbane potion, right?
> 
> 
> "romerskesims"


>From what I remeber of the books, wolfsbane was only mentioned 
twice: when Snape was questioning Harry about his knowledge of 
potions and their ingridients and when Lupin explains about how he 
and Harry's dad, Sirius and Peter all used to be freinds he says 
something to the effect of : When I came to hogwarts the wolfbane 
potion hadn't been discovered yet. This fits with my past 
expeirinces with wolfsbane. In all the books I've read wolfsbane has 
always been used in reference to protection against werewolfs, not 
vampires. In fact the only mention of it in reference to vampires 
that I recall is in Belle Lugosi's Dracula. I might be wrong, i does 
happen, but I'm pretty sure that wolfsbane hasn't been mentioned in 
any of the HP books in relation to vampires, so I think that the 
makers of that quiz book probably had knowledge of the dracula 
connection and used that for the question rather than information 
actually found in the books. however, i must admit, aside from my 
looking up the two mentions on wolfsbane i recalled earlier, its 
been a awhile since I've reread the books, so if I've forgotten a 
mention of it, please let me know, cause I too agree that wolfsbane 
being a deterant to vampires disproves the Snape is a Vamp theory, 
which is definately a theory I support.
Bridget