Potions countering Spells and the other way around
Kemper
iam.kemper at gmail.com
Sun Sep 25 07:16:23 UTC 2005
No: HPFGUIDX 140713
Carol wrote:
As for Snape ending the effects of the potion protecting the (fake)
locket Horcrux (poisoned memories or whatever it was), much as I'd
like to believe that Snape rescued Dumbledore from it (with a spell
disguised as an Avada Kedavra), I don't see the evidence for it. That
potion was horrible, and it appeared to me to be killing Dumbledore,
making him weaker by the second as he slid down the wall. I don't see
any evidence that it was *preventing* him from dying, or that Snape
(who assuredly sent Dumbledore over the tower wall, whatever else he
did), released him from the potion's effects. (Can a spell counter a
potion? We've seen curses and countercurses, poisons and antidotes,
but never a spell that can counter a potion or vice versa.)
Kemper now:
Skele-Gro (potion) was used to 'counter' Gilderoy's curse (blundered
spell). Well,
maybe more accurately, Skele-Gro countered the damage already done by the
curse. But then, isn't that still the antidote to that particular spell's
poison? If so, then a potion can be a countercurse.
So even though Dumbledore may have a withered wand-arm due to the
ring!horcrux curse, the withered hand (and whatever internal ailing) is the
effect. Snape could have used a potion to counter the curse's effects for
Dumbledore.
So I would argue that Snape could, to use Carol's word, 'release' Dumbldore
from the effects of the potion from the cave.
Kemper
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