Love Potion/Hate Potion

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 152354

Alla:
> Hmmm, just wanted to share that I discovered a canon fact that I 
did not know existed ( hides in shame if everybody else knew that 
fact but 
me). Thank you Lexicon! :)

I went to Lexicon to see if I am missing some crucial facts about 
Love 
potions and instead discovered that at some point JKR referenced the 
existance of Hate Potion which reveals all the faults of the targeted 
person to the caster.

Ceridwen:
I didn't know it either.  I'm glad you brought it up!

Alla:
> Am wondering whether this will come as important or not.

Somebody drank Hate Potion in the past? Hmm, maybe Snape in order to 
think bad of Lily when he joined Voldy and Co?

Ceridwen:
(cringing at the thought of Snape and Lily yet again)  I do think 
this is something worth thinking about.  Snape could not have been 
a 'superb Occlumens' at sixteen and seventeen years of age.  Look at 
Draco.  He is able to hide his thoughts, but not so the person 
attempting Legilimency cannot see.  His attempt is awkward and 
obvious.  Not the best thing to be around LV!

If there was some reason why Snape having friendly feelings toward 
Lily, of whatever variety, meant something to his hoped-for position 
as a Death Eater, then he would need something to make himself seem 
to hate her.

I could be wrong about Snape, maybe Occlumency was one of those Dark 
Arts things he knew as an eleven year old that so negatively 
impressed Sirius.  But I tend to doubt it.  He probably had the 
makings of a decent Occlumens at that time, like Draco.  But I can't 
see that he was already skilled to the point he is in the books (as a 
man in his thirties) to believe that he could get away with 
disguising his feelings well enough to deceive LV at seventeen or 
eighteen years old, whenever he joined the DEs.

So, yes, if there was something of that nature going on with Snape 
and his feelings, then a hate potion would make more sense to me than 
having him be a perfect Occlumens at such a young age.

By the way, what are the long-term side effects of love and hate 
potions?  I know JKR hasn't gone into that, not that I've seen 
referenced, anyway.  But Voldemort was conceived while his father was 
on a love potion...

Well, wait a minute, could it be that his mother took or wore the 
love potion?  There are so many things we don't know!

Ceridwen.