Neville, Cauldrons & the Poor

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 112221


Hurricane Francis: 
> There was some discussion not too long ago about how Neville is
hindered by=
>  using his 
> father's wand.  And I began wondering again about other ways that
Neville i=
> s
> disadvantaged.  What if Neville's problems in potions is
exacerbated, or ev=
> en caused, by 
> the type of cauldron that he uses?  No other student melts his /her
cauldro=
> n, and they do 
> concoct some horrid, stinky, smoky, off-colored potions, but no one
else se=
> ems to melt 
> the things.  Not like Neville, anyway.  I really wonder if Neville
uses the=
>  type of cheap 
> cauldrons that is the subject of Percy's long government report and
the kin=
> d that Mung 
> illegally trades. There is a bit of a is a hint with his name
"Longbottom."=
>  In reality, Neville 
> ought to be using well-built, thick cauldrons, but instead
 cheap.

Finwitch:

The Cauldron *melts*. It doesn't, exactly, explode.

The school list says pewter. They ALL have cauldrons of pewter. (and,
for a metal-mix, pewter *does* have a relatively low melting point.
Maybe this is to keep the *potion* from getting too hot, no matter what?)

Sure, the thickness of the bottom would say just how fast the bottom
melts, but even with the thickest bottom, I'd except it to produce
drops of pewter before melting trough... No mention of any other
melting cauldron!

Finwitch