Wand Lore / Luna / Alchemy

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 181860

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Mike" <mcrudele78 at ...> wrote:

> See now, you've called the cave's green goo both potion and poison. 
> What I want to know is what makes us think this stuff was "poison"? 


Well, Mike, I usually call the "green goo" :-) potion, and I only
called it "poison" because I was answering a post (Potioncat's, iirc)
where it was  called "poison" :-). However, I don't see why we can't
suspect that the goo was poisonous, and I agree with both Zara and
Carol - it's very probable that DD could have died from the potion. 

We don't know what would have happened to DD if he was alone in the
cave, with no one to give him water - unlike Kreacher, he lost
consciousness after drinking the goo (Harry had to use "Rennervate"
spell on him) and he couldn't get to the water by himself. What if the
green goo was a poison, with water being the only antidote? Maybe DD
would have died if Harry wasn't there.

We also don't know what would have happened later, maybe the goo was
some slow acting poison, and DD would have died anyway, just not
immediately. Snape killed him before we could find out :-).


zanooda, thinking that the cave potion could easily be a poison :-)