Potions Master Question/ Viridis?

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 94070

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, bufo_viridis at i... wrote:>
Viridis wrote:
 [Dumbledore] is famous for defeating the dark wizard Grindelwald in 
1945, for discovering the twelve uses of dragon's blood, and for his 
work on alchemy with his friend Nicolas Flamel. (HP Lexicon quoting 
Chocolate Frog Card)
> 
> Ergo ? Dumble himself must be of the top Potions Masters of WW.  I 
find it hard to believe he was just a clerk for Flamel. We don?t 
know what he was doing for better part of his life, so he could 
easily enjoy *beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its 
shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through 
human veins, bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses*.
> 
> So why he was teaching transfiguration? He is powerful enough to 
be equally good in both fields. But still... 
> 


Potioncat:
This one took on a life of its own!  I up-treaded back to see what 
started it all. And here I am.  

Viridis, was your question ever answered?
 
Potioncat (who thinks that with the above idea of DD's potion making 
skills, he and Snape must be cooking up somehting!)