Both Uses of
component
in
Harry Potter (#6) and the Half-Blood Prince
- Hermione recited at top speed: 'Golpalott's-Third-Law—states-that-the-antidote-for-a-blended-poison-will-be-equal-to-more-than-the-sum-of-the-antidotes-for-each-of-the-separate-components.'†
Chpt 18 *
- '… which means, of course, that assuming we have achieved correct identification of the potion's ingredients by Scarpin's Revelaspell, our primary aim is not the relatively simple one of selecting antidotes to those ingredients in and of themselves, but to find that added component which will, by an almost alchemical process, transform these disparate elements —'†
Chpt 18
Definition:
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(component) a part of something