Textbook reliablility? RE: Lupin, mon amour was Re: Page-filler Lupin [the_old_crowd]

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Eileen wrote: 
> Well, given that they've been using the exact same textbook for 
Advanced Potions since the 1940s, I'd say they're kind of stuck when 
it comes to innovation. The one guaranteed new potion in the book is 
Wolfsbane Potion and, although it's not stated to be so, I think most 
fans are right in suspecting the inventor is Snape, the non-
traditional innovator. 


Kathy W:
Actually, Damocles Belby(?) is the inventor of Wolfsbane Potion. That 
is, Belby's Uncle Damocles is. I wonder how the directions for making 
it was published? ("Potion Makers Magazine", "Cauldron Quarterly") Or 
did Lupin have the instructions which he gave to Snape?

As for the same text book. While Slughorn uses the text and has the 
NEWT level students make potions from it; Snape always provided 
instructions for his lower level students on a board. Who knows what 
text he might have been using for NEWTS. The book was old when Snape 
took Potions and we saw the changes he made. Hermione seemed to do 
better with Snape's style of teaching than with Slughorn's.

>Eileen:
> The wizarding world has many features of the pre-modern world, and 
one of them is a focus on what is traditional to the expense of what 
is new. How far it goes is a good question. It is influenced by the 
Muggles, as well, to be sure.

Kathy W:
Wonder if there is any way to tell how many new 
innovations/discoveries,etc were made by Muggle-born wizards.