Re: [Harry Potter Official Club] Re: potions

On 8/31/08, grazajo_48 <grazajo_48@yahoo.com> wrote:

--- In harrypotterofficialclub@yahoogroups.com, "John Distazo"
<John.Distazo@...> wrote:
>
> On 8/30/08, panheelfan <panheelfan@...> wrote:
> >
> > i know this may be a stupid question but can they make potions in real
> > life?
>
>
> John:
> Not magical ones. You would have to be a witch or wizard to make a magical
> potion.
>
> You're going to ask why and I'll tell you the reason why. Read the potion
> scenes in Half-Blood Prince. You'll notice that to make the potions you must
> use certain items (such as silver knives) and make certain motions (such as
> stirring in a certain way) when brewing the potion. Part of the "magic" is
> in the plants, of course, but it seems to be more active in the presence of
> magical folks. Mandrakes don't move around Muggles, but they do around
> magical folk.
>
> A Squib such as Filch would probably be completely lost in Muggle society
> if he'd been brought up in a wizarding environment and was suddenly cast out
> and into the Muggle world. There would be little incentive for him to keep
> the Wizarding world that rejected him a secret, so Squibs are either kept
> hushed up (as Arianna was) or given a job that doesn't require magic (as
> Filch was) or used as an operative in Muggle society (as Arabella Figg
> was).




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>>>>how do you know all that stuff?

 

John:

I read the books, and thought about the reasons why the things that happend, did happen. I probably shouldn't have said Arianna was a Squib; she wasn't, but she had a traumatic experience that altered the way her magical abilities worked.

 

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