Slughorn's potions in first day of class

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 161123

---  "Eddie" <harryp at ...> wrote:
>
> Slughorn had several cauldrons of potions on the first 
> day of class, including Felix Felicis, which we learn 
> later takes six months to brew, and Polyjuice Potion, 
> which we learned in CoS takes weeks to brew (lacewing 
> flies brewed 21 days & fluxweed picked at full moon).
> 
> So how did Slughorn acquire these potions with only 2 
> months notice?
> (See LONG timeline at 
http://www.hp-lexicon.org/timelines/timeline.php )
> 
> Hardly important, but maybe it will be fun to speculate.
> 
> Eddie
>


bboyminn:

Well, I know this is a hopelessly simplistic approach to
a problem that I'm sure we all see and agree on, but...

...maybe he just walked into the local Potions Shop, and
said 'give me two gallons of this, two gallons of that,
and two gallons of the other, and send the bill to 
Hogwarts'.

Also, I suspect Slughorn must have his own home. It could
be once he decided to take the job, he went home and 
started brewing immediately. Time would have been short
but he may have just been able to make it. 

Truthfully, I think it is one of those questions we aren't
meant to ask, though that has never stopped us before. I 
suspect in the story we are just meant to accept that he
had the potions and move on from their.

For what it's worth.

Steve/bboyminn