Wolfsbane and vampires

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 86763

"romerskesims" 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


Carol:
Bridget's references are the only ones I can recall. Snape doesn't
mention what it's used for, only that it's a plant which is also
called monkshood and aconite (SS 138).The name, of course, means "wolf
poison," which suggests that it would kill werewolves rather than
vampires. (Interesting that when Lupin drinks it in his human form it
doesn't harm him but somehow tames the about-to-emerge werewolf that
it would otherwise kill.)

I would happily supply information that it also kills vampires if I
could do so, since I don't support the Snape as vampire theory, but as
far as I can see, the quiz maker is simply misinformed.

Carol, who believes that swooping like a bat is a colorful simile and
nothing more