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Draco-the-godson-of-Snape

Nov 27, 2006 13:33

Just because Narcissa Malfoy says Snape knows Lucius well and is Draco's favorite teacher does not mean he's Draco's godfather. Let's take Draco first. Since Draco got to Hogwarts Snape has established a precedent of favoring Slytherins. To what extent this is an automatic House-favoring thing versus a deliberate deep-cover spying technique is not ( Read more... )

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sylvanawood November 28 2006, 09:39:07 UTC

What makes you think that Slughorn knows how to brew the Wolfsbane? He didn't brew it when he was a teacher at Hogwarts, otherwise the whole Shrieking Shack theme wouldn't have been necessary. If the discovery was so recent that it only happened after he retired -- did he go and learn how to brew it? I have my doubts. He doesn't seem to be the innovative type ( ... )

aloysiusweasley November 28 2006, 17:46:37 UTC

Hi! Short-time lurker here, and I firstly have to comment on how GREAT this community is ( ... )

sylvanawood November 28 2006, 17:55:59 UTC

I'm mostly lurking here, too, but I'll welcome you anyway. :)

Slughorn may have learned to brew it, but I'm pretty certain that he couldn't do it back when Remus was at school. Dumbledore would have... err... asked him to do it, surely. He may have learned it later, we don't know. AFAIK we don't know exactly when the Wolfsbane potion was discovered, only that it was a more recent discovery.

The whole Wolfsbane thing is a mysterious affair anyway. Do they generally have access to it? Is it sold somewhere? Why doesn't St. Mungos or the Ministry provide it, for the safety of the other people? And so on...

And the godfather thing, as I said, I'm no fan of that plotline, but I think it still could work if someone wanted it to.

aloysiusweasley November 29 2006, 04:50:46 UTC

I dunno - I always got the impression Slughorn was some sort of last resort, or perhaps a weapon, held in the wings of reserve, if and/or when he might be needed again. But Lupin's already stated that the Wolfsbane potion wasn't around in his school days, and Slughorn mentioned on the Express that the potion was "recent". *muses* I'd be inclined to think the potion had been discovered at most, 15 years ago, but probably not within the last four-five years, IMHO ( ... )

sylvanawood November 29 2006, 10:39:24 UTC

or perhaps the W.W.'s discrimination against werewolves runs so deep the community can't even overcome it's prejudice to help them out.

I think that's it. Especially with people like Umbridge still in the Ministry.

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