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

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 169474

> JW:
> Continuously boiling the potion might keep it fresh, but the 
> resultant evaporation of volatile ingredients (as evidenced by the 
> smoke) would quickly change the proportion of the mixture, 
presumably 
> rendering it ineffective, or even dangerous.
> 
> Hence, you have convinced me that there is NO way that the potion 
> would be efficacious the following day.  These raises deeper 
> questions - so why would Snape produce a cauldronful?  Why would 
he 
> produce a potion that he knew would be ineffective the next day, 
> either because it was not fresh (not simmered until the next day) 
or 
> not mixed in correct proportions (because it WOULD be simmered 
until 
> the next day)?
> 
> One possible answer is that Snape was purposefully not helping 
Lupin, 
> either by physically harming Lupin or by forcing Lupin to resign 
> through uncontrolled lycanthropy.  Perhaps that is why Lupin was 
in 
> such terrible shape after drinking the potion each month, despite 
it 
> supposedly controlling his condition.


Magpie:
Maybe that was just another one of Snape's passive-aggressive digs. 
Just as Lupin is making a power play by telling Snape to just put 
the Potion down and he'll drink it when he gets to it, Snape is 
pushing how important it is that he drink it. So he's all, "I made a 
whole cauldron full," indicating that he's taking extra precautions 
for Lupin in case he forgets or spills it on himself. He wants Lupin 
to know if there's one thing Snape's got a lot of as long as Lupin 
is at the school, it's Wolfsbane Potion. Wouldn't want to be caught 
without too much Wolfsbane, no sir. Lupin won't be able to skip it. 
In fact, if he'd like to take two doses to make sure he doesn't 
become a ravening beast, Snape's made extra! That sort of thing.

-m