Golpalott's Third Law

[career advisor]

No: HPFGUIDX 151417

Irene:
> Also, not getting the Golpalott's law suggest the cognitive ability 
> of a teaspoon, if I may be so rude. Ron and Harry definitely have 
> their strong sides, but academic talent isn't one of them.

>Neuman:
>Alright then, I'll bite. What does Golpalott's Third Law mean? 

>"The antidote for a blended poison will be equal to more than the sum
>of the antidotes for each of the separate components."

>How would one antidote be more than another? Did Golpalott also invent
>some kind of rating system?

All right at the risk of embarrassment I'll take a shot at this:

All this law means is that if you take two separate potions with there separate
anti-dotes and blend or mix them together then the new antidote is both of the
previous antidotes plus something else as a result of the effect of mixing them 
together.

For example:

Potion A  Antidote: Eye of a whistlewillow
Potion B  Antidote: Tongue of a fresh picked Gollywop

The blended potion AB: Antidotes: Eye of a whistlewillow + Tongue of
a fresh pickled Gollywop + a third ingredient to account foe the effect of the 
blending. It could get very complicated once you start mixing complicated potions with 
many ingredients. 

Only a chemist or pharmacist could tell you if there is an equivalent law
in real life, but I would suspect so. I think this is also a concept for homeopathic
medicine where they take small minuscule amounts of ingredients and mix them together.

And I was no gifted child, just bright and 
dyslexic. But I was good at these sort of puzzles, but all that usually does is
gets you is a civil service job like mine, so both Hermione and I would be perfectly qualified for the ministry
of magic if such a thing existed. Oh joy! 

DA Jones