"brew fortune, bottle fame, put a stopper in death"

[Handy (really!!!)]

No: HPFGUIDX 88135

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "strawberryshaunie" 
<strawberryshaunie at y...> wrote:
> hmm I always saw it as "stopper" meaning cork...like put liquid 
death 
> in a bottle, not "stop" (prevent) death. Any ideas as to what Snape 
> meant?(sorry for the short post....)

I took it to mean that he could make a potion that would make a 
person seem dead, but not really. Unfortunately I don't see this 
helping Serius any.