Interesting email I received.... - Theory about Dumbledore not being dead

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 153990

Tonks:
> > > This idea has been around here before. Someone here said that 
LV would not make a whole lake into a potion. I think they are right.

Joe:
> > Why not? What would stop YNW from creating a lake which was 
actually a potion?

Rosemary:
> But DD didn't drink the water. I thought Harry splashed his face 
with it...

Ceridwen:
I had the wild idea some time back that the green goo was a potion 
lacking a catalyst, and that the lake water was the catalyst.  The 
object would be to turn anyone drinking the goo into an Inferus to 
live in the lake with the rest of the Inferi army.

(This was in relation to a failed idea that DD was slowly turning 
into an Inferus on the tower (weakness, face getting paler, etc.).  
Problems:  DD didn't drink the water; Inferi are created with a spell 
if I recall correctly.)

Not that the Inferi in the lake were created from the potion!  They 
were created already and put there by LV, a place to hide his army 
until he needs it, or a part of the horcrux defenses.  But anyone who 
got so far would need to drink, the water from the lake was the only 
thing which could be drunk, and there would be another body in the 
ranks.  This would be the way that LV found out who had disturbed his 
horcrux - they would be the person or people he did not personally 
add.

It's possible, of course, that a couple of drops got into DD's mouth 
when the water splashed on his face.  But it doesn't seem like a lot 
would have gotten in.

Ceridwen.