Merope (Was: Dumbledore's Plan/Deaths in DH/Catharsis)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 177548

 
> Carol responds:
> 
> That's a problem for me. How did Merope learn to read or make a love
> potion?

Pippin:
I wouldn't assume she learned how from a book.
She must have had a mother once. Love potions being a  village 
witch's stock in trade,  perhaps Mrs. Gaunt was selling them to 
Muggles.  It could be the Ministry found out, and put a stop to it, 
but Merope remembered enough of her mother's 
recipe to attempt it herself when she was desperate enough. 

Pippin