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

[pippin_999]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at m...> wrote:
>
> 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?

Pippin:
The wizard who does the work isn't always the one who takes credit for
it. Snape may have had to publish under Damocles' name in order to
maintain his cover. We do know that Lockhart's work was not his own.

Snape is supposed to hate werewolves, after all.
Making the potion because Dumbledore ordered it is one thing, actually
inventing something that would improve their lives is something else.

I think Fenrir is not a wizard, or at any rate has not been trained to use
a wand. I wonder if he has to  use side-along apparition to get to 
DE meetings? Maybe ESE!Lupin gives him a lift <veg>. On the other
hand his DE robes looked too tight, so maybe he isn't an inner circle
DE and just borrowed them for the occasion.

Pippin