InsaneJournal

Current mood:

grumpy

Grumble, grouch
Argh! My pet hate (as a Severus Snape player) in RPing HP games has happened again!! Drives me up the wall!!

The Wolfsbane is very difficult to brew. They make an issue of that in the books. No, I'm sorry, a student less than a year out of Hogwarts, no matter how good is he or she is, could NOT brew it. Your average brewer could NOT brew it. Only someone highly skilled and with experience can brew it. Lupin makes the comment that he's grateful that he's at Hogwarts because Severus is one of the few who can make it. It is NOT an easy potion to brew.

I've hit it several times in several games and it never fails to drive me round the bend. Not to mention, threaten to drive me out of the game. I've only had one set of mods who understood how difficult it is and they'd made the decision well before I came along that only Severus and one other (who had their Mastery) would be able to brew it. It's right up there with the number of potions 'experts' people seem to like to play. It's like they can't bear to have their character be just an ordinary brewer of potions. No! They have to be as skilled as Snape without going through all the years of learning and experimenting. They have to be speshul. ARGH!!


ETA: Also... Bwee!! My friends sent me silly text messages for my birthday yesterday which made me giggle enormously.