"Stand aside, girl" and the End

[annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 145930

Orna wrote:
> > Actually – what's the meaning of locking love in a room? I find this 
> > picture quite intriguing. What's the meaning of locking it in a 
> > room, what are the dangers of it?  
> > 


Annemehr:
Perhaps people kept going in and never wanting to come out.  It must
take years to train an Unspeakable, not to mention getting all the
security clearances; they don't want them all wanting nothing to do
but to just sit in the one room.


> La Gatta Lucianese(replying to Orna):
> 
> This has a curious resonance with Snape's claim that he can teach his 
> students "how to bottle fame, brew glory, even stopper death". We know 
> from Slughorn that it is possible to brew good fortune--the Felix 
> Felicis potion. Is it also possible to concentrate and store up love 
> until it is needed (that is, real love, not passion, the usual outcome 
> of so-called "love" potions)?

Annemehr:
On this list, it used to be common to identify the phrase "stopper
death" with sleeping potion known as the Draught of the Living Death.
 I've been mostly absent since HBP, though -- is that phrase putting
people in mind of Horcruxes these days?

As for storing up love, that may be -- but I would guess the way JKR
would write it you could not *brew* real love like a potion, but you
may be able to store it in little phials like you can store thoughts.


> >Orna:
> >About further duelling - I rather think voldemort would tamper with
> >his wand, than giving up the final duel. Perhaps, as someone
> >suggested, that's why Ollivander has disappeared.
> >
> La Gatta Lucianese:
>  
> And Ollivander has been hanging out with the Terrible Twins in Diagon 
> Alley, so when Voldemort points his wand at Harry and shouts, "Avada 
> Kedavra!", it turns into a rubber snake that explodes in a shower of 
> sparkes and a strong odor of dungbomb...
> 
> (I couldn't resist!)


Annemehr:
I wouldn't be surprised!

And that, of course, is when the Possession battle begins...