Felix Felices

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 181615

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Laura Lynn Walsh <lwalsh at ...> 
wrote:

> The one thing that bothers me about the explanation that 
> Snape started the Felix Felicis brewing is that this is 
> completely unlike him.  I can't imagine him brewing the 
> very difficult potion himself to give the students a look
> at what it was supposed to be like when it was finished.


zanooda:

We never saw Snape teach a NEWT class. Maybe he plans those 
differently, because they are usually for students who are good at 
potions and interested in them enough to continue on NEWT level. We 
also don't know if Slughorn shows potions in all his classes or only 
in the NEWT class.


> Laura Lynn Walsh wrote:

> It was his normal way to just let them have at it and then 
> put them down for not being able to do it right.


zanooda:

At least Snape sometimes corrects students afterwards and explains 
what was done wrong - Slughorn never does even that :-). 


> Doddie wrote:

> So we as readers do not have to make such a big leap to 
> consider that Sluggy kept/brewed/ sold potions


zanooda:

I think that it's possible, although it wouldn't be easy to move a 
complicated potion in the proccess of brewing every week to a new 
Muggle house :-). Slughorn admited that he was on the move for the 
whole year and never stayed in one place for more than a week.


> Pippin wrote:

> 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!


zanooda:

Also - possible, but these potions are so complicated, and the 
instructions must be followed so closely, that it seems doubtful they 
can be "reheated" in a cauldron without damaging them, IMO. Same goes 
for the store-bought potions, unless Slughorn makes them bubble 
without actually heating them :-). I also think that Veritaserum, 
Polyjuice potion and maybe even Felix Felicis shouldn't be sold in 
stores (not sure about Amortentia :-).