Basilisk Venom

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 182350

bboyminn:
> I think trying to carry or handle Basilisk Venom would be akin
> to trying to carry around highly toxic radio active material.
> I suspect that Basilisk Venom would be like many toxic 
> substances, you don't have to ingest it. If it touches your
> skin, it will absorb and kill you. If you are pouring it from
> one bottle to another and the tiniest drop lands on your sleeve,
> and a while eating dinner, you wipe your mouth on your that
> same sleeve, you are dead. 
> 
> Still, Ron was able to handle the fangs, so perhaps I am wrong,
> or perhaps the fangs had absorbed a degree of Venom from contact
> but were not actually filled with liquid venom. That still might
> give them the power to destroy a Horcrux. 


SSSusan:
Eh.  Surely Ron was just able to handle the fangs/teeth (saw your 
correction) because he was feeling SUPERHUMAN at that moment.  
Remember Harry's remark?  "Where have you two BEEN?!"  Yeah, yeah, 
they went & retrieved some basilisk parts, but they were gone a 
loooong time.  We know what they were *really* doing first, don't 
we?  <vbeg>  

Surely Ron could have done *anything* after that.  

Siriusly Snapey Susan,
with tongue planted firmly in cheek, but I couldn't resist