Shove a Bezor was Re: many replies to many posts from many people, ALL SPOILERS

[lindseyharrisst]

No: HPFGUIDX 135896

With regard to why Snape wrote "shove a beazor down their 
throats..." Firstly, I agree that it was a clue for interested 
Snapefans that we could get from his sarcastic nature 

"Karen Barker" 
>I think it is just an prize example of Snape's sarcastic nature.  
>Then no doubt a long and conveluted 
>process to actually make the antedote.  I can just hear Snape 
>saying "Fine.  Or you *could* just shove a bezoar down their 
throat."
 
but also that it deomonstrates the point made earlier in the 
Hermione/ multiple intelligences posts. The reason why Hermione did 
not do better than Harry in potions class was that Hermione does not 
exhibit any imagination, but rigidly sticks to the instructions, 
showing she has a gift for precision (making her good)but not for 
imagination or invention (for which one would have to know all the 
properties of all the ingredients in a potion in terms of what 
thye're meant to achieve, how they react with others etc). Snape 
demonstrates the supreme skill of a potions genius with this phrase -
pragmatism. 
He doesn't do more than necessary to achieve an effect and 
recognises that the time it takes to brew the potion is a risk-
increasing waste of time in many cases. So slytherin, to value ends 
above means!
Snapesangel