The seven potions challenge in SS/PS

[kelleyaynn]

No: HPFGUIDX 146723

Kelleyaynn:

I am conducting a Harry Potter book club with some of my 7th and 8th 
graders, and a couple of the 7th graders came up with an interesting 
theory about the potions. Forgive me if this has come up before, as 
I haven't seen it yet.

Just as the 7 challenges have been linked to the seven books of the 
series, these girls linked the potions to the 7 books. Here they are:

The three potions that result in death: books 4, 5, 6

Two are nettle wine: books 2 and 3 or 1 and 2 - we had some 
disagreement over this in the book club. Book 3 is relatively 
innocuous in the scheme of the series (like nettle wine), and the 
other could possible be 1 or 2.

One will take you forward: Book 1 or 2 (Since the first one brings 
Harry into the wizarding world, or two, since it introduces the 
horcruxes [though we don't know it at the time]) 

One will take you back: book 7, as it will take us back to a time 
without Voldemort. Not that there won't be deaths in book 7, but the 
girls thought that perhaps there wouldn't be a death that directly 
affects Harry (someone close, or like Cedric he witnesses and is 
traumatized by it).

Any comments on their ideas?

Kelleyaynn