[HPforGrownups] Re: The Cave

[literature_Caro]

No: HPFGUIDX 134743



>  Saraquel:
>  To me the complexities of the cave scene are such a key. There is 
>  the whole question of whose potion is it, are there memories stored
>  in it, and what is happening to DD when he drinks it. I've got 
>  quite a few ideas about the potion, and have posted on this topic 
>  before, but my ideas change as I try to unravel its complexity. 

>  There may well be another potion or potions involved here, as the 
>  colour of the potion in the basin is emerald green and luminescent.
>  I'm sure that I've read of Hermione successfully making something 
>  like this, but I can't find it. Also, blending potions, may well 
>  not be the same as blending paint colours!! The luminescence of the
>  potion could also indicate memories - can you add them to potions? 
>  and on p530 Harry says "he saw the light as coming from a stone 
>  basin rather like the Pensieve" There is also one interesting 
>  remark, which might well be a clue on p535 it says "Dumbledore 
>  drank, as though it was an antidote Harry offered him" But quite 
>  where that leads I don't know.

Caro:
I might be blind, but I don't see why this potion must be one in which
memories are stored. Of course it could be but it is also possible
that this is an insight into DD's thoughts while this potion forces
him to see how he dies (which would be a very nasty act of LV for he
thinks that there is nothing worse than death. On his point of view
this would make everbody stop drinking immediately; a very good
protection then). I could imagine that this was refilled by R.A.B.
This potion could make DD see what is happening at school (which he
thinks is well protected) and the purpose of the attack. This would
make him very willing to die in order to save everybody else there. I
would like to call this potion then "The Potion of Mortan Knowledge".

I cannot believe that this potion contains any memory. For sure you
can extract it but it is neither liquid nor gas, so it has nodefinate
consistency. I am really stuck into physics there, I know.

Caro (who really is impatient to read book 7)