stopper death

[gelite67]

No: HPFGUIDX 114221

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "beatnik24601" 
<beatnik24601 at y...> wrote:
> Finwitch wrote:
>  What else is that Stopper of Death- potion doing than keeping them
> alive?
> 
> Beatnik24601 replies:
> <snip>
I always thought that Snape meant 'stopper' the 
> bottle of death (i.e. put a cork in the flask which 
> contains 'death').  In other words, he was talking about ability to 
> brew poisons (which brings up a whole other myriad of issues, but, 
> anyway...), rather than brew some sort of cure for death, or elixir 
> of life (altho, this would be relevant to the plot of PS/SS).
> 
> Angie offered:
Can't you put a stopper in something to prevent it from being used?  
Don't ask me why, but I've always thought it meant bringing someone 
back from the brink of death, sort of like the artificially-produced 
equivalent of unicorn's blood (but without causing someone to live a 
half-life).  After all, Snape says, "bottle fame" not "bottle death."