Who would love Snape?

[melclaros]

No: HPFGUIDX 107281

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Phil Boswell" <phil_hp7 at y...> 
wrote:

> My immediate thought was that he must have been in contact with
> arsenic over the long time he has been concocting potions. This
> recalled a character in one of Katharine Kerr's Deverry novels who 
was
> an assassin and had become mostly immune to arsenic through taking
> small doses but was given away by the hair effect.


A while back there was a very interesting thread pointing out that 
he also shows some symptoms of lead-poisoning, lead being a 
(formerly, but we are talking the WW here) major ingredient in 
Pewter. Hogwarts school supply lists specify pewter cauldrons.


Mel