POTTERMORE: Potions (New Writing #5)

[vaysh]

The potion expert: a brooding, slow-burning personality. Maybe Draco Malfoy does not become a Potion Master, after all. ;)

It is often asked whether a Muggle could create a magic potion, given a Potions book and the right ingredients. The answer, unfortunately, is no. There is always some element of wandwork necessary to make a potion (merely

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[minervas_eule]

Oh dear, another "Chemistry is my least favourite subject" person.... but the introduction she wrote for Snape is just SOOO brilliant I do forgive her :-))

Now I wonder if I have indeed a "brooding, slow-burning" personality...

[vaysh]

I never had very inspiring chemistry teachers and found the subject plain boring. Now at the age of 51, chemistry (and physics) would interest me so much more. :)

I am still wondering what a "slow-burning" personality is.

[zeitgeistic]

I find Chemistry a lot easier to love as an adult than I did as a teenager. I find it so fascinating now, and I was bored to tears in high school. I think brewing potions might have something to do with that. :P

[taradiane]

Bless you for posting these. :D

I confess to being a tad disappointed in them, though. When I first heard that they were coming, I thought that they would be like little ficlets such as what she gave us with the QWC this past summer.

I'm really just holding out for the promised Draco piece.

[vaysh]

You are welcome. :D
I never expected more from this new info. Rowling is very good at recycling her writing notes. :) I was hoping the new piece about Draco was the deleted scene at Malfoy Manor between him and Theo Nott. But all the new info so far has been related to the Half-Blood Prince, and the deleted scene, I think, was from the Goblet of Fire (<-- totally not sure).