What does Dumbledore drink in the cave?

The Emerald Potion, also known as the Drink of Despair, is a mysterious potion which induces fear, delirium, and extreme thirst. According to Dumbledore, the potion cannot be penetrated by hand, vanished, parted, scooped up, siphoned away, transfigured, charmed, or otherwise made to change its nature in any way.
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What did Dumbledore see when he drink the potion?

Dumbledore seemed to have terrible nightmares or visions, and was almost too weak to stand up after drinking the potion. Kreacher said that when Voldemort forced him to drink the emerald potion his "insides burned" and he saw "terrible things" (DH10).
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Why did Dumbledore drink that potion?

The answer is obvious: he couldn't take the locket that way. Magic is more complicated than what we get to see in the novels. Dumbledore was adamant: the only way to take the locket was to drink the potion, you couldn't use any other kind of magic against it.
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What are the things in the water in the cave Harry Potter?

The Inferi whom Harry and Dumbledore encounter in the depths of the lake in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince were, when alive, mostly vagrant, homeless Muggles whom Voldemort had murdered for the purpose during his first rise to power, although some were the earthly remains of wizards or witches who 'disappeared' ...
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What does Dumbledore drink out of?

Also, in the book version, Dumbledore conjured a crystal cup out of thin air to drink the potion, while in the movie version, there was already a seashell-shaped cup placed on top of the basin (originally a crystal cup in the script).
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What Did Albus Dumbledore See When He Drank The Emerald Potion?



What is Dumbledore's favorite drink?

Albus Dumbledore - Butterbeer

It's only natural he'll stick to Butterbeer at a public even.
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Why didn't Dumbledore just pour out the potion?

It cannot be poured away because Voldemort made sure it couldn't. According to Dumbledore: But how to reach it? This potion cannot be penetrated by hand, Vanished, parted, scooped up, or siphoned away, nor can it be Transfigured, Charmed, or otherwise made to change its nature.
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What did the cave potion do to Dumbledore?

Dumbledore started drinking, and it took three cups of the potion before he was noticeably affected. The first symptom of the potion was pain. Then, much like a dementor, it apparently made the drinker relive his worst memories. Finally, it caused intense thirst.
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Why did Snape call himself the Half Blood Prince?

Snape was born to Eileen Prince, a witch, and Tobias Snape, a Muggle, making him a half-blood (hence the name, "Half-Blood Prince"). This is rare for a Death Eater, as remarked in the last book, though Voldemort himself also had a Muggle father.
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Why did Tom Riddle hide a Horcrux in a cave?

Once again, Voldemort chose a personal place to hide the Horcrux. In his youth, Riddle had tortured two children from his orphanage in a nearby cave. It was here, he chose to return to, and thus hid the locket once he had turned it into a Horcrux.
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Did Dumbledore use the elixir of life?

“There were too many unanswered questions to assume the matter was over, and he needed to be alive to answer them, so he took moderate doses of the Elixir of Life that the stone produces in order to preserve his [llfe] longer than normal life, health, and mental fitness (he was born in 1881).”
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What did Hermione turn into when she drank the potion?

Moaning Myrtle is in delighted humor, and the reason turns out to be because the hair in the potion turned Hermione into a cat.
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What potion did Snape create?

What potion did Snape create? An advanced potion that is only taught to N.E.W.T students during their sixth year of potion-making, Severus Snape bettered the Draught of Living Death. This potion allows the drinker to enter into a deep slumber that closely resembles death.
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What is Dumbledore's big secret?

The big “secret” about the Dumbeldore family that the title promises is actually an explanation of the last film's cliffhanger. Albus confirms to Creedence early on in the film that he is in fact a Dumbledore, quashing any rumor that Grindelwald had lied to the young boy in order to sway him to his movement.
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What was Dumbledore's secret?

In the opening scene of The Secrets of Dumbledore, Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) revealed that he was in fact in love with Gellert Grindelwald (Mads Mikkelsen) when they were teenagers, and the blood oath was a witness of their love.
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What was Dumbledore's last words?

“The last words Albus Dumbledore spoke to the pair of us?' Harry is the best hope we have. Trust him.”
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Why is Snape's Patronus special?

A doe. And in his final battle with Lord Voldemort, Harry explained the significance of this to his adversary, and to us: 'Snape's Patronus was a doe,' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's, because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from the time when they were children'.
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What is Snape's full name Harry Potter?

Severus Snape | Wizarding World.
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Is Harry Potter a pure-blood?

Harry James Potter holds half-blood status in Rowling's imagined wizarding world because his mother is Muggle-born and his father is pure-blood. There are three main blood statuses; pure-blood, half-blood, and Muggle-born, which are all methods of determining a witch or wizard's magical lineage.
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Is Dumbledore related to Godric Gryffindor?

Harry is the Heir of Gryffindor, as is his great-grandfather Albus Dumbledore. Harry/Tonks.
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Is Harry Potter A horcrux?

For almost his entire life, Harry was a Horcrux. This explains Harry's ability to speak Parseltongue — the magical ability to understand and talk to snakes — an ability Voldemort has as a descendant of Salazar Slytherin.
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Why did Dumbledore need water?

Dumbledore was incredibly thirsty due to the potion and asked for water. Due to the protective enchantments, Harry found that the only way to quench Dumbledore's thirst was to obtain water from the lake, this causing the masses of inferi to rise and attack them.
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Can Dumbledore fly without a broom?

Flying. Yes, yes. We know most wizards can fly whenever they want, providing they have a broomstick — or in more extreme cases, a Hippogriff. But it's also possible, in the rarest of cases, that wizards can fly unaided themselves, as first demonstrated by Lord Voldemort in Deathly Hallows, and later Severus Snape.
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Why did Dumbledore's secret fail?

The film was overstuffed and overlong, and did not have many of those wow moments that peppered Potter movies. It did not help that fans were not too happy about Johnny Depp, who essayed the supervillain of the film Grindelwald, being part of the cast.
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What was Dumbledore's last spell?

It is possible that the spell, as it appears in the book, is the Fire rope charm, due to the novel's description of the fire as "a vast lasso" of flames produced from Dumbledore's wand. This spell is one of the last and most powerful spells that Albus Dumbledore uses with the Elder Wand, before his death.
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