12 uses for Dragons Blood

[grannybat84112]

No: HPFGUIDX 83166

June joshed: 
> >> 
> > A: I have a very good reason for not telling you -- the movie 
> script writer
> > wants me to give him that information for the film. But I can say 
> that the
> > 12th use is oven cleaner.
> > 
> > ~Amanda, L.O.O.N.
> 
> Suggestions:
> 
> 1.  An excellent (though intense) haemorrhoid preparation
> 2.  Fantastic in certain "wild" cocktails
> 3.  Brilliant in stir-fry.
> 
> And apologies for levity.  Anyone else?

Charlie Weasley's handling of the dragons for the Triwizard 
Tournement demonstrates the beasts' resistance to magical attack. 
Given that knocking out a single dragon requires stunning spells cast 
by half a dozen full-grown wizards...perhaps dragon's blood is an 
essential ingredient in the most powerful protective spells.

Flitwick describes the Fidelius Charm as "immensely complex."  Could 
part of that complexity be the need for many fields of magical 
expertise on the part of the spellcaster(s)? Any liquid corrosive 
enough to be used as an oven cleaner would require buffering agents 
to keep the chemical from burning through human skin (assuming the 
chemical must be applied to the subject's body). Who better to handle 
a case of dangerous organic chemistry than a Potions Master? Who 
better to supply fresh dragon's blood than an animal handler with a 
passion for "interestin' creatures?" Who better to integrate all the 
elements of this complex spell than the professor who teaches Charms? 
And who better to orchestrate the timing and the subjects to be 
protected than the leader of the OoP? 

Dragon's Blood as Protective Ingredient would neatly tie together 
Snape's and Hagrid's post-Hogwarts involvement with the Potters, and 
would help explain why Hagrid was so adamant in telling Harry that 
Snape would never steal the Philosopher's Stone. (Dumbledore had 
already trusted him with helping to protect something more precious 
than Flamel's work, after all.)  

DBPI (hmm, gotta work on a real acronym) may even fit the recent 
theory that Harry's scar originally signified a protection rune drawn 
on his skin. Certainly that bit of info would fit with JKR's secrecy.

Grannybat