[HPforGrownups] Re: Lupin and Wolfsbane potion

[Tammy Rizzo]

No: HPFGUIDX 147517

 Allie writes :

Isn't it VERY unusual that Lupin has *not* mastered the Wolfsbane 
potion?  Okay, even if it's very complicated and requires a lot of 
hard to find ingredients, what else does Lupin have to do?  He barely 
works because of his condition.  The Order didn't re-form until 
recently.  Seems to me like he might have had some spare time on his 
hands.  I would think that he would make learning to brew Wolfsbane 
his primary goal.  The man has had OVER 20 YEARS to learn how to make 
it!  We're seriously supposed to believe that in all that time, he 
could not have learned???  For crying out loud, Hermione learned how 
to make Polyjuice Potion at 12 years old, and that's also described as 
immensely complicated!

I don't think he's ESE!, but this particular aspect of his story 
requires a little suspension-of-belief for me.

 
Now Tammy writes:
 
Oh, I don't know.  Some otherwise extremely intelligent people have a very
hard time learing certain subjects. For example, I've been studying for ten
years to learn a very simple programming language, and I *STILL* can't
program in it.  So Lupin not having mastered a delicate, complicated potion,
one that he tells us not many wizards CAN handle, doesn't seem at all
far-fetched to me, even after twenty years.
 


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