Wolfsbane potion (was; Re: Snape and Lily - school connections?)

[eloise_herisson]

> Snow:
> 
> Very good point about the Wolfsbane buttttttt
what if Lily were 
> already working on that particular potion before her demise? Lily 
> would be someone I would think would attempt to make a potion to help 
> her boyfriend/husband's best bud more so than Snape. This is not to 
> say Snape actually invented the potion but if anyone had been 
> interested in making a potion to `help' poor Lupin I would think it 
> would have been someone who really cared two sickles for Any person 
> who had been bitten by a werewolf and would want to help them. 

Eloise:

Appealing theory, but we have canon <g> for who invented it. In HBP Ch 
7 we learn that Marcus Belby's Uncle Damocles received the Order of 
Merlin for doing so. However, it's very tricky to brew and Snape is one 
of the few skilled enough to do so (probably Lily could have, had she 
lived, which would have been all the better for Lupin).

~Eloise

who wonders what little story is lurking there as she can't believe 
that anyone in the Potterverse called Damocles doesn't have an 
interesting history.