Irrational childhood fears

[junediamanti]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Iggy McSnurd" 
<coyoteschild at p...> wrote:
> 
>> Iggy here:
> 
> I think the thing that freaks me most about their venom... well, 
two things
> really... ok... well here they are:
> 
> 1:  Their venom is Necrotic... meaning that it simply kills off 
the tissue
> as it spreads through the body, leaving huge patches of dead and 
rotting
> tissue in its wake if the area isn't excised early enough.  
(Fortunately,
> it's not a hemotoxin per-se... it spreads through the skin rather 
than the
> blood, so you can remove it simply by cutting out the infected 
areas.)  I'd
> rather have a black widow bite me and be sick as a dog for a 
couple of days
> rather than have my skin begin to rot on my own body.
> 
> 2:  There is a small chance (but still a chance) that you will 
have a
> genetic reaction to the toxin, which is even worse if it somehow 
gets into
> your bloodstream... If you are one of the very few people with this
> reaction, then your body alters so that (for the rest of your 
life) any
> break in the skin that you get spreads and becomes a bloody 
lesion.  Even
> barking your knuckle or cutting your finger can become a serious 
problem
> that will require a trip to the hospital.  Sometimes the lesions 
can occur
> on their own as well.
> 

Question Iggy:

Do you watch your DVD copy of Chamber of Secrets lots and will you 
be queueing up for tickets to Return of the King in December?

June (cackling evilly)