Talk:Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Albus Dumbledore

From the article: 'The only thing that may be keeping Dumbledore alive at this point is the potion that "stoppers death".'

To stopper something does not mean to stop or prevent it; in the context of the quote, it refers to putting a stopper (such as a cork) on something - the implication is that you can put death in a bottle. So the "stoppers death" quote from Philosopher's Stone actually has the opposite meaning: a potion that kills.
 * There is more on this in PS:8. The actual quote (from the Scholastic edition) is "and even put a stopper to death." We don't accept that a potion that kills is worth an "even" from Snape, because poisons are so ruddy common. Heck, we Muggles have potions that will kill: add potassium cyanide to anything. Chazz (talk) 08:12, 18 February 2016 (UTC)