Snape and Dumbledore on the Tower/ Blood on DD face

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deborah snipped:

Anyone else think that lake was filled with "Draught of living 
death," the first potion Snape introduced in Harry's first potions' 
class? Could this have played a role in the events that followed? If 
Dumbledore's death were being "stoppered" would draught of living 
death have had less effect on him? Clearly, Dumbledore is already 
borrowing time somehow.


Snow:

You may have hit the nail directly on the head deborah! 

I had always thought that the draught of living death was a potion to 
put a stopper in death...something you take to make you appear dead 
but you are still alive (like a Hamlet's Romeo and Juliet).

The way I now can perceive this potion, from what you have said, is 
that it keeps the dead alive. In other words, the inferius in the 
cave are kept alive by a potion, the draught of living death. They 
are kept alive even though they are quite dead. 

The potion isn't meant to keep people from dying, it is meant to keep 
those who are dead alive...in other words, stop death. The Inferi are 
the living dead!

Dumbledore should have been dead from drinking the poison but 
Voldemort wanted to know who could have broken his defenses of the 
cave, so being made thirsty enough to drink from the lake not only 
brought the inferius to life but kept Dumbledore alive as well, but 
only for a time. The inferius live in the liquid so they can never 
escape death. 

Snow