Felix Felices

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 181607

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Laura Lynn Walsh <lwalsh at ...> wrote:
>  It was
> during Harry's summer vacation, so there would not have been
> 6 months available for Slughorn to brew the potion for his first
> potions lesson, unless he was already brewing it back in the
> borrowed house.  It would seem very unlikely for him to do so,
> as he had only taken the potion twice in his life and was living
> in a house that was not his own (i.e., he had none of his own
> tools and ingredients).
> 
> Did I miss something?

Pippin:

No one seems to be allowing for Sluggy's sense of showmanship. Just
because a potion's bubbling away in a cauldron doesn't mean it's freshly
brewed! 

Of all the potions we've heard of, only wolfsbane seems to lose its potency 
if it isn't consumed immediately. Love potion,according to Slughorn, acutally
gets stronger as it ages. We know that polyjuice and felix keep very nicely.

Slughorn could have made them up before he went into hiding,
and stashed them somewhere. As we see, such rare and difficult potions
make very useful bribes (er, rewards) and of course  felix and polyjuice
are useful in themselves if you're in a tight spot, which is
exactly where Slughorn expected to be if the DE's caught up with him. 

Once he had accepted Dumbledore's protection, he could get his stash
out of hiding, bring it with him to Hogwarts, and set it  up in cauldrons
as  if he'd brewed it all just then.  

Pippin
remembering how sure we all were that draught of living death would
come into the plot somehow