Confusing and Befuddlement Draughts

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 93116

Potioncat wrote: 
> > If JKR was having a character poisoned, why would she kill him in 
> > some other way before the poisoning was discovered?  As I was 
typing 
> > that sentence, I swear, a voice in the back of  my head said: To 
set 
> > us up for someone being poisoned in the next book! 
> 
Jenjar wrote: 
> Interesting points potioncat.  First let me clarify, I don't think 
> the draught or poison Kreacher may have given Sirius would have 
> killed him.  As Harry's textbook states, confusing and bufuddlement 
> draughts were used to produce hot-headedness and recklessness.  
> 
> If this is what happened JKR could have had many, many reasons for 
> doing it.  There are 2 possibilities that stick out to me:
> 
> 1) If Sirius had been more himself and not unusually hot-headed or 
> reckless, he might not have died.  
> 
> 2) As things are now, Dumbledore is blaming himself for Sirus' 
death -
>  he thinks he misjudged Sirius' ability to handle being caged up, 
> which led to Sirius' reckless actions.  How will his guilty 
feelings 
> affect his future decisions and actions? 
> 


Potioncat:
Good points! DD certainly felt he had made several mistakes this time.

I didnt' expect the poison to kill Sirius either, I was just 
surprised that he died and we never discovered it. (Assuming we're 
correct about the poison.) But unless someone is being poisoned in 6 
or 7 the only purpose of discovering it now would be to heap more 
guilt on Sirius' friends.  Harry particularly will think he would 
have picked up on it if he'd done better in potions.

So perhaps we should watch out for someone else to act strange.

Potioncat