[HPforGrownups] Re: Quick question re: Lupin's resignation / Snape's potion

[Tekay Jaye]

No: HPFGUIDX 107553

HunterGreen:
Well Harry is, and I know *I* was when I read that. Lupin, though, 
never seems worried AT ALL. I suppose, in the end, he had no reason 
to because Snape didn't poison it, but he'd be a hard man to put your 
faith in. Someone once commented that the whole 'sugar makes it 
useless' fact was really a lie Snape told Lupin (so he'd at least get 
the pleasure of forcing Lupin to drink something that tastes really 
awful when it doesn't have to). I'm sure that's not true, but its a 
funny thought.


Tekay:

I don't think that Snape is lying to Lupin about the sugar.

"Professor Snape has very kindly concocted a potion for me," [Lupin] said. "I have never been much of a potion-brewer and this one is particularly complex....Pity sugar makes it useless." (PoS, 156-7, US hardback)

Lupin seems to know how to make the potion and what the finished product should taste like. He's just not a potions master, so Snape, who is, prepared it for him.