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

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 107554

--- huntergreen_3 <patientx3 at aol.com> wrote:
> 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.


I'm posting three times today (sorry!  don't thwap me!) but I can't
resist this because I've always imagined the three-way dialogue about
this matter:

(Dumbledore's office, three-way meeting)

Dumbledore: You're settling in comfortably, Remus?  The wolfsbane
potion agrees with you?
Lupin: Oh, yes, thank you very much Headmaster.  It's a wonderful
discovery and I'm very grateful to Severus (*nods at Snape*) for
making it for me.
Snape: *GRUNT*
Dumbledore: Excellent.  I'm so glad that everything is working out so
well.  We are fortunate indeed to have Severus here.  Few wizards in
the world are up to the task.  (*Smiles at Snape*)
Snape: *SMIRK/GRUNT*
Lupin: Yes.  There's just one thing - the taste - I don't suppose -
maybe a teaspoon of sugar? -
Dumbledore: Severus?
Snape: No, I'm sorry Lupin but unfortunately sugar renders the potion
entirely useless.  
Lupin: (*sighs*) Too bad.
Dumbledore: Well, it's only once a month, Remus.  And now if you will
excuse me....
Snape and Lupin leave. Snape thinks on the way back to the dungeons:
"What a whiner.  Sugar!  Of course vanilla, cinnamon, chocolate and
wild cherry extract would have no affect at all but he didn't ask
about those." 



		
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