Slugs

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I've done a little search on the net to find whether slugs are 
edible. The only information I found was indirect:
"The edible gastropods include the abalone and other marine snails, 
such as the conch and the periwinkle, and land snails of various 
types." (from http://www.geocities.com/hibiscusred/bug/other2.htm)
>From this I gather that slugs are not edible (the essay writer 
differentiates between snails and slugs. Gastropods is the term that 
covers both).

This is in defence of my interpretation of Ron's "eat slugs, Malfoy" 
curse. If slugs are inedible (unedible?) then if you magically fill 
somebody's stomach with them, it's quite reasonable to expect them to 
vomit them quickly. After all, if the hexed person would just calmly 
digest them, it wouldn't be much of a hex, would it?

Naama