When we first see it, Snape is disdainfully presenting a goblet of it to Lupin. In the story, the Wolfsbane potion in part highlights the ambivalence of Snape's character. It is uncertain whether this is an option for the more mature Lupin but the Wolfsbane potion, by allowing him to keep his intelligence through the transformation, also defuses the pure animal rage he would feel at being locked up. When he was going to school, some ten to fifteen years before, the only way to manage this was to confine him to a place that he could not get out of in wolf shape, and make it distant enough from people that they would not be overly disturbed by the resulting noise. Thus, when we discover that Professor Lupin is a werewolf, we must also see that there is some way that his monthly transformation can be controlled or corralled.
Who invented wolfsbane potion full#
The Muggle understanding of the Werewolf is quite close to the Wizarding understanding of the beast it is not safe to have a werewolf in human company at the full moon. The need for this potion, or something like it, becomes obvious as we read through the Shrieking Shack chapters in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Damocles Belby was apparently taught Potions by Professor Slughorn. The potion was evidently invented only a few years before the story starts, by Damocles Belby, the uncle of Marcus Belby. It is unknown whether it contains the plant Wolfsbane (Aconite or Monks-hood). It also reportedly has a unpleasant taste, and sugar renders it ineffective.
The potion itself is very difficult to make apparently Professor Snape is the only one at Hogwarts who is able to brew the potion. Wolfsbane Potion is a very recent discovery if taken regularly once a day in the week prior to the full moon, it results in the werewolf keeping their mind when they transform, thus making them able to lie quietly in private, rather than running mindlessly and striking out at everything. When a werewolf transforms at the full moon, they become basically a wild animal, and will attack anything in the area including humans of course, the bite of the werewolf is infectious and will result in the bitten person also becoming a werewolf. Beginner warning: Details follow which you may not wish to read at your current level.
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