No Sex, Please, We're British

jwcpgh jwcpgh at yahoo.com
Thu Oct 30 02:01:28 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 83838

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "o_caipora" <o_caipora at y...> > 
> Many primitive tribes are reputed to have effective contraception. 
> It's not hard to imagine a traditional "witch" - a rural woman with 
a knowledge of herbs and physiology and a brighter and more observant 
> than her neighbors - working out the rhthym method just by keeping 
> track of when the bull gets friendly with the cows. 
> 
> Real witches would long ago have worked out some simple spell to 
> subtly interfere with the process: strengthen the egg wall, 
befuddle the sperm, or something. What after all is more typical of a 
hedge wizard than a "love potion"? If a contraceptive potion is not 
sister 
> to a love potion, it's a least a cousin.

Laura:

The thought of magical equivalents of the pill made me wonder whether 
potions have side effects.  (I'm only being partly whimsical here.)  
We know that sometimes charms and potions take a while to wear off 
but I wonder if they sometimes interfere with body chemistry in 
unexpected ways or if they can be dangerous in large doses.  Maybe on 
the Hogwarts physical form there are questions about what herbs and 
potion ingredients the student might be allergic to?





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