Why did Harry Drink

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No: HPFGUIDX 136073

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jmoses22002" <jmoses22002 at y...> 
wrote:
> Jmoses:
>   I was just wondering if I was the only one who questions why Harry
> drank the FF potion.  He has been tricked by people in disquise
> before, and I thought he would be a little more careful.  Beside the
> fact that Slughorn had a whole cauldron of Polyjuice Potion, he was a
> Slithrin and they aren't exactly straight arrows.  Another thought I
> had was, How did Malfoy get the polyjuice potion.  I would think that
> a potion as potentially dangerous as that would be under closer watch.
>  Please someone respond.

Mario's response:

1) Harry drank the FF potion because Hermione identified it as being 
FF. She is so good that it gave Harry confidence about its 
authenticity. Also, Slughorn said at the beginning of their course that 
he would give it to who ever made the best potion during the class. He 
had no way of knowing that Harry would be the best

2) Draco probably made the Polyjuice potion on hiw own, just as 
Hermione, Harry and Ron did in COS.