Advanced Potions textbook

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 132152

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "barbara_mbowen"
<barbara_mbowen at y...> wrote:
> I know someone must have posted about this but my search 
> hasn't turned it up.  The old copy of Advanced Potions seen on 
> the cover of one edition of HBP might well be another one of 
> 'Lord Voldemort's old school things', hence the connection to 
> CoS.  If so, and it's in the Malfoy house,  Draco may drag it out to 
> use it against Harry, or for some other nefarious purpose now 
> that Dad is in Azkaban.  I do believe Jo has set up a huge conflict 
> between Harry and Snape, and this old text book is another 
> pointer in that direction as well.  Did Voldemort use potions to 
> achieve much of his partial "immortality"?  Is what Snape does 
> as a "spy" related to potions making?  I'm sure someone else 
> has posted a more coherent theory in more convincing form; can 
> anyone tell me where?

There's been nothing to explain what that book is other than what it
looks like.  I took it to mean Harry will be in Advanced Potions.  The
book certainly seems likely to point to a huge conflict between Snape
and Harry. Snape doesn't want to see Harry ever again.

A potion was at the center of Voldemort's latest revival.

If Draco wanted to attack Harry with a potion, it probably wouldn't be
hard to get his hands on Most Potent Potions or something of that ilk.
 Draco would like to try anything he can think of to hurt Harry, but
the little weasel may not have the guts for it. His last few attempts
at revenge haven't worked out too well, have they? A sneaky potion may
be right up his alley.

Jim Ferer