[HPforGrownups] Re: Why Did DD Drink the Contents of the Bowl?

[rayheuer3 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 134773

Vivamus wrote:
> . . . instead of just pouring it out on the  ground?
> 
> Did that puzzle anyone else?
 
Ray's take on the whoel issue.
 
1.  Just as Harry couldn't conjure a goblet of water, the potion  cannot be 
spilled, it must be imbibed.
 
2.  RAB's little joke would have been ruined if the locket was just  sitting 
in the bowl, os he (or she) replaced the potion.
 
2A.  It probably never occurred to RAB that someone *other than  Voldemort* 
would be after the Horcruxes.  
 
3.  The potion in the bowl tortures the imbiber by reviving their  worst 
memories, or perhaps a litany of everything they've ever done which they  considr 
a mistake.
 
4.  It wasn't the potion in the bowl that poisoned DD, it was the  goblet of 
water from the lake.  DD wanted Snape to identify and counteract  the poison.
 
5.  When it became clear that DD was suffering severe ill effects from  the 
potion, why didn't Harry stick a bezoar down his throat?  (I know he  didn't 
have one with him, but are you saying that "Accio Bezoar!" wouldn't have  worked 
in Hogsmeade?)
 
  --  Ray


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