Timeline for Why exactly would witches and wizards need to know how to make a love potion?
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| Sep 27, 2017 at 14:43 | comment | added | Kargathia | The Weasley twins openly sell love potions in their shop. It appears the wizarding world just doesn't care. | |
| Sep 27, 2017 at 11:20 | comment | added | Weckar E. | @atayenel Do they? As I recall Hermione learned that through her own research. | |
| Sep 27, 2017 at 11:00 | comment | added | atakanyenel | They teach lockpicking with Alohomora, not your typical school knowledge | |
| Sep 27, 2017 at 10:17 | comment | added | Darth Hunterix |
almost everything about the magic world can be used maliciously if they want to. You can safely cross out the word "magic" in that statement. In our world a kid can easily stab someone in the eye with a pencil, or pummel the target with a bag full of books. Not to mention spiking drinks with laxatives, using cellphones to acquire material for blackmail, wedgies... Real world is dangerous too.
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| Sep 27, 2017 at 7:56 | comment | added | Erik | @sudhanva they tought me how to make some basic explosives in school, but I didn't go around thinking "he/she is so annoying, why don't I go blow them up?". I'm assuming even teenagers have some understanding of right and wrong. Or, barring that, some understanding of the legal consequences of doing bad things. | |
| Sep 27, 2017 at 0:42 | comment | added | Acccumulation | Just because there are things just as unethical that the kids know, doesn't mean there isn't an issue with teaching them another. For one thing, a love potion would be less detectable than someone being transfigured. For another, a person would have a motive for a love potion in all sorts of situations where they don't have a motive for transfiguration. It's a bit like saying in the muggle world "Why should we care about kids knowing where to get roofies, if they already know where to get guns?" | |
| Sep 26, 2017 at 19:51 | comment | added | Yakk | Maybe love potions in the wizardling world are commonly used, willingly, by people in relationships to get that first blush of love back. | |
| Sep 26, 2017 at 18:31 | comment | added | Jack B Nimble | @PlutoThePlanet maybe a love potion is the only way to get certain magical creatures to breed in captivity. A perfectly valid reason to both make and teach it in school. | |
| Sep 26, 2017 at 18:06 | comment | added | DVK-on-Ahch-To | As Lukyanenko pithily pointed out in NightWatch series, who needs Fireballs when you can cast "peel potato" spell on opponents to grate their skin off, and then finish them off with "Iron clothes" spell on their body. Magic in inherently deadly if used creatively. | |
| Sep 26, 2017 at 16:31 | comment | added | PlutoThePlanet | It definitely seems like a dubious concept at best. In the real world, even dangerous drugs like rohypnol have innocent applications; I'm not sure how a love potion could be used in any other way. | |
| Sep 26, 2017 at 15:15 | comment | added | sudhanva | Well, there definitely are going to be kids who don't really think it's malicious. "He/she looks so cute but would never date me. But what if I use this crafty potion that our prof was cool enough to teach us?" We are talking about a bunch of teenagers here. | |
| Sep 26, 2017 at 15:12 | vote | accept | sudhanva | ||
| Sep 26, 2017 at 14:41 | comment | added | TimSparrow | Possibly it is a good thing to know how to make Love Potion in order to create an antidote. | |
| Sep 26, 2017 at 14:30 | history | answered | Jack B Nimble | CC BY-SA 3.0 |