Wolfsbane Dosing (was: Neville/Wolfsbane/Fluffy/Filk/Snape/Time Travel)

[jmwcfo]

No: HPFGUIDX 169449

> >Catlady wrote: 
> > Snape set down the smoking goblet, his eyes wandering between 
Harry
> > and Lupin.
> > 
> > "I was just showing Harry my grindylow," said Lupin pleasantly,
> > pointing at the tank.
> > 
> > "Fascinating," said Snape, without looking at it. "You should 
drink
> > that directly, Lupin."
> > 
> > "Yes, Yes, I will," said Lupin.
> > 
> > "I made an entire cauldronful," Snape continued. "If you need 
more.
> > 
> > "I should probably take some again tomorrow. Thanks very much,
> Severus.">>
> > 
"The potion that
> > Professor Snape has been making for me is a very recent 
discovery. It
> > makes me safe, you see. As long as I take it in the week 
preceding the
> > full moon, I keep my mind when I transform .... I'm able to curl 
up in
> > my office, a harmless wolf, and wait for the moon to wane again." 
>>
> > 
> > I long to know whether 'take it in the week preceeding the full 
moon'
> > means 'take it once anytime during that week' or 'take it daily 
each
> > day of that week'. (Or, for that matter, why assume once daily? It
> > could be every four hours daily!) 


> Neri again:
> > IMO the canon above does suggest daily doses. Snape does prepare 
an
> entire cauldronful, and Lupin does say he'll take another goblet
> tomorrow. Assuming a cauldronful is more than two goblets and
> extrapolating from the goblet today and the goblet tomorrow we can
> conclude a daily goblet during the week before the full moon. Maybe 
it
> is not that regular. Maybe Lupin just feels ill and then he knows he
> has to take another goblet. However, in that case one wonders: how
> come Lupin forgetting to take just *one* goblet was enough for a
> violent transformation to occur? This  strongly suggests that Lupin
> must take the potion for a fixed number of times during that week, 
and
> if he misses just one of them the potion loses its effect. It 
doesn't
> have to be daily for my original argument to hold, but this would be
> the simplest and most obvious with the canon we have. 
> 
Snape has brought Lupin his potion (or
> alternatively Lupin went to Snape's office to get it) the night 
before
> that, and before that, and before that... six times over. So in the
> Shack Snape tells Lupin that he forgot to take his potion tonight
> (this "tonight" again suggesting that Lupin took it the nights 
before
> that) and yet neither of them behaves as if a violent transformation
> is imminent every moment now. The most logical explanation is that
> both of them lost track of days and forgot that tonight is full moon
> night.
> Neri


JW:
I've always wondered why Snape made a cauldronful (however much that 
is) when it is best used when fresh.  Either there is an awful lot of 
wasted potion, or perhaps Hogwarts has several werewolves.