stopper death

[dungrollin]

No: HPFGUIDX 114245

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "zinaya_z" <zinaya_z at y...> 
wrote:
> > > Beatnik24601 replies:
> > > I've heard a lot of people referencing this quote from Snape 
> > > (about wizards ability to 'brew fame, bottle glory, even 
> > > stopper death" from PS/SS), and seeming to interpret it as 
> > > meaning 'stopping death'.  However, 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).

> Hi all, this is my first time posting but I wanted to jump in on 
> this one. <G>
> 
> I have a friend in the UK and we were discussing this same topic 
> when she tactfully pointed out that the US version of the book 
> differs from the UK in this case. While the US says "stopper 
> death" the UK version says "even put a stopper in death". This is 
> a reference to a cork basically, boring as that is...
> 
> Peace!
> Zinaya

Dungrollin:
My UK paperback version doesn't, it says 'even stopper death'.  
Anyone else...?

I've been through this every which way, and now I think he was 
talking through his hat, trying to intimidate the ickle firsties, 
and JKR wasn't paying attention to all the possible interpretations 
of her words... 

Although it is, admittedly, suspiciously ambiguous...