alt_alice: (lookingupangelic)
Alice Longbottom ([personal profile] alt_alice) wrote in [personal profile] alt_crouch_jr 2010-06-15 08:58 pm (UTC)

Re: Order Only

Yes. We've told him about the choking on blood bit, and the timeline, and he's got a few possibilities in mind...

Draught of the Living Death for one. Apparently, depending on the dosage, it can take up to a week to finish someone off. He says he had to try and come up with an antidote to one once, but it's terribly tricky if you don't know the exact dosage to start, or how long ago it's been administered. But that slows the heart, it doesn't cause the blood to rise.

And then there's Animam Adere, it causes someone to choke to death, but he's never heard of it taking twenty-four hours to kick in.

He says no matter what it is, if it's a potion that's meant to work slowly over time, it most likely has been prepared specially to release small doses in bursts -- he says some Muggle pills are like that -- they dissolve slowly. So the sooner he gets help the better chance he has of stopping it before it builds to dangerous levels.

Decreasing acid amounts in the stomach by eating bread or drinking milk might slow it down a little and buy him some time.

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