stopper death

[beatnik24601]

No: HPFGUIDX 114243

> Annemehr:
> I completely agree with Beatnik24601 that the sense of the words
> certainly seem to imply brewing up a flask of something lethal.
> 
> The trouble with that, though, is that it's boring! Isn't it? 
> Ordinary Muggles are perfectly capable of mixing up poisons, after
> all. 

Beatnik24601:
Ha ha...point taken. Maybe ((desperately trying to think of 
something that would make poisons interesting))...maybe, the poisons 
make people die in really interesting ways!  Like, in Moste Potente 
Potions (CoS), the pictures of people being turned inside out...

Not to mention how surprised we'd be to find Snape teaching
> Hogwarts students to brew death potions.  Perhaps these are two of 
the
> myriad of issues that Beatnik was thinking of.

Beatnik:  They were...

> 
> I wonder if, by 'stopper death' he could have meant 'control 
death?' 
> He couldn't have meant 'control death' in an absolute sense, but
> perhaps in an incomplete way.  In which case, Finwitch and Beatnik 
are
> both right.  See how accomodating I can be? <g>


Beatnik:
Yes, that's very nice of you.  I still stand by my original 
interpretation, but the more I think about it, the more I like the 
alternative...it does lend it's self to more interesting potion 
classes and practical applications of these potions that 'control 
death', doesn't it?

Beatnik24601