The Potion in the Cave Possibly Revealed (Re: Dumbledore MAY be alive....)

[houyhnhnm102]

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Rebecca wrote:

> > Tricky, tricky that JKR, hm?  IMO, DD drank some souped up Draught
> of Living Death.
 
Carol responds:

> As you stated, the Draught of Living Death is not green, nor does it
> AFWK cause "unendurable pain" in the drinker. It's a very powerful
> sleeping potion that makes the drinker appear to be dead. 

houyhnhnm:

Nevertheless, Golpalott's [love it] Third Law states "that-the
antidote-for-a-blended-potion-will-be-equal-to-more-than-the-
sum-of-the-antidotes-for-each-of-the-separate-components".

So there are blended potions. What color would a blended potion be? 
Logically, blue and yellow potions blended together would be green,
but this is the Potterverse, so I suspect the science of optics is not
going to help us. (I can't think of any potions that are blue and
clearly Dumbledore isn't drinkin an Elixir to Induce Euphoria, but
there are most certainly others that we don't know of)  

How does a blended potion act?  Can the individual components of a
blended potion potentiate one another or act as antagonists? Is it
possible to create a timed release effect so that one component of the
blended potion acts before another kicks in.  Other than Harry's
garish pink unknown and Hermione's ten fractions we are not shown any
blended potions in action so it's hard to say.

Still I agree that it is unlikely Dumbledore consumed a Draught of
Living Death in the cave.  If he is indeed in a state of Living Death
(and I'm very open to the idea) my guess is that the potion was
administered after his fall from the tower, possibly by Slughorn. (It
would explain why Slughorn "looked the most shaken, pale and sweating".)