[HPforGrownups] Re: Blood in the bottle?

[Iggy McSnurd]

No: HPFGUIDX 82537


> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "oiboyz" <oiboyz at h...> wrote:
> > But then again, if you're a wizard who's planning to leave a vial
> of blood sitting around for a long time, I suppose you'd put some sort
> > of anti-corruption spell on it.  Perhaps there's a spell that keeps
> > the blood from separating into layers too.  In fact, it seems quite
> > likely to me that the blood has some magical function (Divination?
> > Dark Magic? Some kind of voodoo?) or comes from a magical creature--
>

From: "neith_seshat"
> I think divination is a good bet, oiboyz.
>
> And what if it is to be used for "blood" rituals? I have always
> supposed since that it was Black family members' blood samples, and
> that may be used for checking if someone was "pure" enough for them.
> Other pet theory is that it may be used for Dark Magic rituals
> involving healing deadly wounds (not necromancy or bringing back the
> dead intended).
>
> Sorry if it has been said before, I've been on holidays, and I am
> trying to cope with thousands of mails.
>
> Neith

Actually, the blood isn't likely to be used for Divination, unless you want
to find out information about the person who's blood it is.  And while that
does support the idea of checking its "purity"... why keep it after that?

As for the "Dark Magics" involving healing deadly wounds... Healing falls
under the "White Magic" category unless you are healing by draining the life
essence and vitality from an unwilling person to do it... thus doing harm to
achieve your ends.  While this is a possibility, it would only really work
once, since you'd both need to use all the blood, and you'd kill the "donor"
in the process.  The only thing I could think of for that is that it was
obtained from someone and is being held for contingencies.  (But then again,
why didn't Mrs. Black use it to steal the vitality from the "donor" to
extend her own life and keep from dying, if that was the case.)

If it was blood being saved for magic, I'd think it would be used for
massively powerful hexing or a summoning spell.  But this is also less
likely, since most rituals using blood that's not your own (and even a lot
that is your own) is used for "sympathetic magics."  (These are spells that
use either a bit of the subject, or an item that's especially significant to
the subject, to disregard distance when casting the spell.  Most people link
it to Voodoo, but it can be used in almost any style of magic.)

I would think it would be more likely that the blood is either something
with an innately high level of magic in itself, such as dragon blood, or is
inherently toxic.  IMHO, either of these two possibilities would be the most
likely.


Iggy McSnurd
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