stopper death

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 114287

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "annemehr" <annemehr at y...> wrote:
> --- 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?
> > 

> 
> Annemehr:
> I completely agree with Beatnik24601 that the sense of the words
> certainly seem to imply brewing up a flask of something lethal.
> 
> ...edited...
> 
> 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>
> 
> Annemehr


bboyminn:

I will weigh in again on this issue, now seem a good time since we
have a few people who seem to be on the same track as myself.

One interpretation is obviously to create a bottle of poison, to
stopper/cork a death causing agent in a bottle.

But I always took it to mean to inhibit, retart, stave off, contain,
or restrain the coming of death. This doesn't imply bringing someone
back from the dead, but keeping imminent death at bay until healer can
 cure or heal the patient. This also doesn't imply immortality either,
since a medicine like this is likely to be short term and not really
be a cure for the main problem. 

Example, it's not the difference between cancer and no cancer, but
more like the difference between being almost dead from cancer and
being dead from cancer. The potion may keep you alive, but you still
have a miserable case of cancer. However, if they can hold death off
for a while, they may be able to find a cure for the cancer and save you.

Side Note: I have this vision of a muggle doctor staring down at a
dead patient and say, 'too bad he died, we could have saved him'. 

Just a few thoughts.

Steve/bboyminn (was bboy_mn)