Podcast Question of the Week – Episode 15
Episode 15 is about to come out – and what an episode it is! It’s long and filled with a great many discussion questions. Here’s our very exciting posed question of the week!
Thinking about Polyjuice Potion, it occurs to me that potions are a lot like spells, in the sense that each are produced from a combination of “ingredients.” For potions, these materials range from lacewing flies, to rat tails to newt eyes – for spells, a single spell is usually produced from a combination of latin words, and can thus also be considered to be composed of parts.
Given this connection between potions and spells, what does this reveal about magic in general? In the same way that there exists a certain language of spell work – one latin word corresponding to an equivalent magical effect – is their alanguage of potion-making such that each ingredient represents a word, theme or essence, which when combined with another produces the appropriate potion?
Some responses to this question will be read on the next episode of Alohomora!
