Stopper in Death

[Erin]

No: HPFGUIDX 92323

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, cora_dee <cora_dee at w...> wrote:
> Great group, great discussions! I'm very happy to have found you :)

Erin:
Glad you did! I was just going to breeze on by this, but then I 
noticed that it hadn't been answered yet, and it would be a pity if 
no one answered your first post.

Cora_Dee: 
 
> You all know Snape's Speech about the art of potion making. And you 
remember that line about "putting a stopper in death". 
> 
> Well ... let's play! If that's the special ability potion making 
offers to a master - whose death is Snape going to stopper? 
> 
> Harry? Dumbledore? Voldemort? Sirius? Anyone else's? 


Erin:
This was my first reading of it also, actually, that Snape had the 
ability to stop someone's death. But I soon found most people think 
he is refering to poison, as in "I can put a stopper in a vial of 
poison(death)."

But supposing he really *can* stop death, I think he's already helped 
Voldemort on that front.  Voldemort says in the Graveyard 
(paraphrasing here) that one of his many experiments must have 
worked, because he didn't die when the AK rebounded on him.  I think 
it likely that an experiment or two involved some potion from Severus.


Erin