four against one / LV's Stone body

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

I suppose everyone immediately noticed that Galpalott (who has at
least three laws) is gulp-a-lott, often not such a wise thing to do
with poisons. 

Judy Serenity wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_old_crowd/message/2883 :

<< Ok, "Snape's Worst Memory" brings me to a
point discussed here recently. We see only two people -- James &
Sirius -- attack Snape. So, at the end of Book 6, why does Snape say
that James would only attack him when it was "four against one"?
Like Pippin, I think it was really four against one. The point that
Remus was a prefect was a good one, which I hadn't thought of. Even
without Remus being a prefect, though, I'd still see it as four
against one. Maybe we see Remus and Peter do nothing because, on
that occasion, they didn't need to do anything; Snape was losing. But
maybe they would have helped out if Snape were actually winning. If
Snape managed to disarm Sirius and James, wouldn't Peter or Remus at
least hand their wands back to them? Without anyone to help Snape
that way, he would be at a major disadvantage. >>

Peter would have been glad to hand James or Sirius back their wand --
he would have been overjoyed with pride at being able to help his
heroes.

Remus was already having a crisis of conscience (shown by the frowny
line between his eyes, not by him taking action) over not doing
anything to stop James and Sirius from misbehaving when he KNEW that
it was his responsibility as a prefect, if not as a human being.
Surely it would give him a much greater crisis of conscience to
actively help his wrong-doers than to merely passively not stop them?

Kneasy wrote in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_
old_crowd/message/2891 :

<< So far as has yet been revealed in canon, the Stone has one power,
one function - to extend life, indefinitely if one keeps swigging the
potion. >>

I have only an irrelevant nitpick: canon also says the Stone turns
things into gold: "As much life and gold as you want!"