Potion Task

[mcdee1980]

No: HPFGUIDX 120346


Hey y'all, I haven't posted in a very very long while, but something
occurred to me tonight as I was reading an editorial.  I'm not sure if
this was posted early on, but forgive me if it was: in Snape's puzzle
in the very first book there are seven bottles, seven bottles and
seven books.  There are three bottles of poison, two of wine, one that
takes the drinker forward and one that moves the drinker back.  Having
now read five of seven books perhaps we can align the bottles with the
books.  I'm not sure if the books will follow the riddle answer, but
it provides two seperate solutions.  
The proper answer for the riddle works like this:
1=Poison 2=Wine 3=either P or Forward 4=either P or Forward (JKR is
not clear as to which is which, however, we know that which ever
bottle was smaller is the F bottle)  5=P 6=W and 7=Back.  If you sit
down with the riddle and the book, you can figure this out for
yourself.  How does this follow the books?

1=Poison SS, Voldemort's first attempt at coming back alive leaves
p,p,poor Professor Q dead and brings darkness into Harry's newfound world.
2=Wine CS Harry again defeats LV and saves Ginny from certain doom
3= POA I'm going to go with Forward on this one, Book three moves the
series forward, but has no big death, so it can't be a poison book
(feel free to argue that point)
4=Poison GOF Cedric dies, LV comes back for real . . . lots of bad
news at the end of this book
5=OOP Poison Sirius dies
6=HBP Wine, well it looks like a happy ending?
7=? Backwards, perhaps 7 will take us back and tell us how the whole
thing started! 

Now lets look at it from another perspective.  The books don't fit the
potion order, but rather the spirit:
1 SS = Wine, Harry triumphs over LV
2 CS = Wine, See above
3 POA = Backwards, gives us the most insight we've gotten so far about
the past, changes the past, brings PP "back from the dead", Time travel
4 GOF = Poison, same as first reason
5 OOP = Poison, same as first reason
6/7 HBP/? One is P the other is forward.  We've been told to expect
more character deaths . . . I'm not sure on this one!

Sorry for the EXTREMELY long musings, its past my bedtime!

Lady McBeth, who imagines she's long since been forgotten