depression in OoP

[candlekicks]

No: HPFGUIDX 110744

I started a new post because I couldn't decide which one to attach 
this to! Going back to Sirius... wasn't there a reference to a 
potion that makes people feel anxious and agitated and reckless. 
Harry is hearing about it during an exam or something and getting 
drowsy, he's having difficulty focussing... I have to look it up...

Okay... took a while but I found it. :)
It's in the chapter called Dumbledore's Army. Canadian Version, 
Hardcover, Page 340.
 "Midnight cam and went while Harry was reading and rereading a 
passage about the uses of scurvy-grass, lovage and sneezewort and 
not taking in a word of it.
 'These plantes are moste efficacious in the inflaming of the 
braine, and are therefore much used in Confusing and Befuddlement 
Draughts whrer the wizared is desirous of producing hot-headedness 
and recklessness.....
 ... Hermione said Sirius was becoming reckless cooped up in 
Grimmauld Place...
 ...moste efficacious in the inflaming of the braine, andr are 
therefore much used...
 ... the Daily Prophet would think his brain was inflamed if they 
found out that he knew what Voldemort was feeling...
 ...therefore much used in Confusing and Befuddlement Draughts..."

I always got from this that Sirius was also under the influence of a 
potion. Given by??? Mundungus??? Kreacher??? It just seemed too much 
of a coincidence to me. Sirius' depression seems to have been aided.

Linda