Love Potions in our future?

[SnapesSlytherin at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 50703

In a message dated 1/26/03 6:15:50 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
draco382 at yahoo.com writes:


> Snape was looking 
> as though the first person to ask him for a Love Potion would be 
> force-fed poison."

That's another scene that would've been great in a book.  Could you imagine 
if some poor student was so love-struck that he asked Snape how to make a 
love potion?  Can you imagine what our Potions Master would do?
On another note, we've been introduced to love potions a few times in the 
series.  The aforementioned V-day disaster being one.  I can't remember in 
which book (more importantly, I can't find it) but Mrs. Wealsey was telling 
Ginny and Hermione about a love potion she made as a girl.  Also, in GoF:

       "She's really ugly," says Pansy Parkinson, a pretty and vivacious 
fourth-year student, "but she'd be well up to making a Love Potion, she's 
quite brainy.  I think that's how she's doing it."
       Love Potions are, of course, banend at Hogwarts, and no doubt Albus 
Dumbledore will want to investigate these claims.  Harry Potter's 
well-wishers must hope that, next time, he bestows his heart on a worthier 
candidate. (GoF, 512 US hardback).

We have been introduced at least three times to Love Potions.  Could that 
perhaps be a tactic in Voldemort's new war?  Use Love Potions and Veela and 
simliar things to enchant the good guys?  Heaven knows that would give them a 
great advantage.....Any thoughts?

~*~*~Oryomai~*~*~


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