Love Potions in our future?

[Erica <cymru1ca@yahoo.ca>]

No: HPFGUIDX 50769


 SnapesSlytherin:
> > 
> > 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~*~*~

 Amber:
> 
> I sometimes wonder about love charms, personally.
> James Potter's wand was good for transfiguration, and
> he became an animagus. Lilly Potter's wand was good
> for charms...so what was her big trick? Maybe she put
> a love charm on Snape and that's why he turned spy for
> Dumbledore, to protect her? But why did Voldemort not
> want to kill her? She was a "mudblood", after all.
> You'd think he wouldn't have given her a chance to
> step aside. But he did. Maybe her charms work had
> something to do with that?
> 

Hmmm, I hadn't paid much attention to the mentioning of love potions 
before but now you've got me wondering.  My guess is that they arent 
going be significant in a Voldemort "With this I will RULE the World" 
plan, however, I can see them coming in as a tangential plot point 
and exacerbating the main plot.  For example, we're told that Ginny 
will have more of a role in the next book.  What if, frustrated that 
Harry still doesn't *see* her as a girl, she gets inspired by her 
mother's story (did her mum ever use the potion?) and decides to 
concoct a love potion of her own.  Complications would then arise 
from either a 'botched' potion or a situation where it is imbibed by 
the wrong person(s).

Erica