Perfume vs. Book

[serenadust]

No: HPFGUIDX 89261

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, EnsTren at a... wrote:
> A strange thought occured to me.  As has been said "unusual" is an 
odd word 
> to describe perfume, if she was trying to be polite "nice" would 
have been 
> better.
> 
> But, rtemember, Mrs. Weasley said she got her husband with a love 
potion.  
> Ron was presumably brought up with this story.  Given this, giving 
love potions 
> is an acceptable way to get the girl in his upbringing.
> 
> A love potion as a perfume could certainly count as 
being "unusual."


I think that you are mistaken about Mrs. Weasley saying that "she 
got her husband with a love potion" (in fact, I'm sure you are ;).

The incident you are referring to occured in POA, chapter 5

"They headed down to breakfast, where Mr. Weasley was reading the 
front page of the Daily Prophet with a furrowed brow and Mrs. 
Weasley was telling Hermione and Ginny about a love potion she'd 
made as a young girl.  All three of them were rather giggly."

I don't think that passage implies that Mrs. Weasley used the potion 
on Arthur and I just thought I'd point that out, since Molly already 
comes in for quite a lot of criticism without her being charged with 
using nefarious means to snare poor Arthur <vbg>.

Jo Serenadust