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

[jmwcfo]

No: HPFGUIDX 169478

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sistermagpie" 
<sistermagpie at ...> wrote:
>
> > 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


JW:
Very well said.  To put it in my own words, it could just be an 
example of Snapistic dry and sarcastic wit.  

(But I still question whether this tricky brew would still be 
effective a day or more later.)