[HPforGrownups] Slughorn's potions in first day of class

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 161133

Eddie:
> 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.
>



Just speculating on the Felix Felicis: maybe Slughorn was tired of trying to 
jump from Muggle house to Muggle house to hide in, and was planning to use a 
steady stream of Felix Felicis to stay alive and in hiding? Then when he 
accepted his Hogwart's position, it so happened that he was already brewing 
it? That wouldn't have explained the Polyjuice Potion, of course, unless he 
wanted to be someone other than a couch for once. <evil grin>

Shelley