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[justcarol67]

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> << 2. Moste Potente Potions is a musty book. Are there other copies of this book around, perhaps in Snape's office, so advanced Potions students don't request this copy very often? Some of the illustrations are gruesome. Would this be a book an advanced student might need to use or is it a relic from much earlier times? >>

Catlady responded: 
> PS/SS said: "Harry wandered over to the Restricted Section. He had been wondering for a while if Flamel wasn't somewhere in there. Unfortunately, you needed a specially signed note from one of the teachers to look in any of the restricted books, and he knew he'd never get one. These were the books containing powerful Dark Magic never taught at Hogwarts, and only read by older students studying advanced Defense Against the Dark Arts."
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> If only some of the potions from Moste Potente Potions are too Dark to teach at Hogwarts and some of the others are taught in Advanced Potions, maybe they use an edition titled The Least Bad of Moste Potente Potions.

Carol responds:
LOL. JKR's description of the books in the Restricted Section doesn't quite fit Polyjuice Potion, does it? But the passage makes an interesting connection between potion-making, the subject, obviously, of Moste Potente Potions, and students of advanced Defense Against the Dark Arts--in a word, the young Severus Snape, who probably spent a lot of time in the Restricted Section, especially after OWL year. I think we're seeing one of the connections between CoS and HBP here and getting our first hint (to be followed by the Duelling Club) that Snape is an expert in DADA as well as Potions and has good reason to want to teach that class (perhaps thinking that he could undo the jinx?).

Carol, curious as to why Catlady thinks that Snape had Draco cast Serpensortia if it wasn't to find out whether Harry was a Parseltongue