[HPforGrownups] Cauldrons & Bill Weasley

[Abigail Draconi]

No: HPFGUIDX 50787


<summer2999 at aol.com> wrote:
> My question is about cauldrons.  In the first book,
> a cauldron is on 
> Harry's school supply list, and he contemplates
> getting a solid gold 
> one.  My question is, what do the students do with
> their cauldrons 
> once they get to school?  It's not very practical to
> think that they 
> carry their cauldron around with them until Potions
> class, because 
> cauldrons are heavy.  I also don't think they use
> them for homework 
> purposes, because it would make sense that the only
> potion making 
> students do is under the watch of Professor
> Snape--what if something 
> went wrong?  So what then, is the purpose of the
> cauldron?  Also in 
> CoS, Hermione had a cauldronw with which to brew the
> Polyjuice 
> potion.  Where did she get it?  Why would the
> students be required 
> to buy something they never use?  The cauldrons that
> are used in 
> Potions class, I've always assumed, were just
> already there.  Soo... 
> does anyone have an explanation for this?
I think that the cauldrons used in Potions class are
the same ones that the students have to buy. But
instead of the students lugging around a few kilos of
cold iron, the cauldros find their way into the class
room the same way the trunks find their way into the
dorms. At the end of the lesson they either get sent
back to the dorms or a storage closet. 
--Chyna Rose who whishes she had access to the same
brand of domestic magic to move her stuff back into
her dorm room.

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