[HPforGrownups] Re: Another potions expert?

[Patricia Bullington-McGuire]

No: HPFGUIDX 59070

On Sat, 31 May 2003, snazzzybird wrote:

> I believe that Dumbledore has placed a standing order 
> for the wolfsbane potion from his Potions Master, and that Snape 
> grudgingly, with much dark muttering about "the werewolf", brews it 
> up for him.
> 
> --snazzzybird, who wouldn't mind being the post owl who makes THAT 
> delivery!  :-)

Hmmm, I wonder if that is even possible.  I imagine there are some potions
that need to be taken within a narrow time frame or they lose their
potency.  If the wolfsbane potion had a substantial shelflife Lupin
wouldn't have had to wait around for Snape to deliver it on the night of
his transformation.  Snape could have brewed it whenever and Lupin would
have just grabbed a dose out of his medicine cabinet when he needed it.  
Keeping a werewolf well-stocked in wolfsbane potion would seem much safer
than delivering the doses one at a time just hours before the
transformation is supposed to take place.  What if the delivery person got
lost or delayed?  What if a lab accident messed up the first batch and
Snape had to make a second?  

Then again, Snape could have held up delivering the potion as yet another
power play in his personal vendetta against Lupin.  We may never know.

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Patricia Bullington-McGuire	<patricia at obscure.org>

The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered
three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the
purely hypothetical.  They were all, one might say, nonexistent, but each
nonexisted in an entirely different way ... 
                -- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad"