Ideas- Weasleys' Wizarding Wheezies & Many Others

[Steve]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "kizor0" <ryokas at h...> wrote:
> Hi. After getting positive feedback in chat, I decided to have a
> little fun and ask people: Were you in the position to come up with
> some enchanted novelty items, what'd you give to the wizarding
> community? Don't be too concerned about feasibility - we have very
> little idea of what is and isn't doable anyway.
> 
> ...edited...
> 
> - Kizor

Asian_lovr2:

Slightly off the beam, but here are Harry and Ron products that have
sprung up in the parallel universe that is my own perverse imagination.

Harry Potter's Wizard's Brew - All Natural Suprisingly Strong Ginger
Ale (or Ginger Beer in the UK) Orginally, this was a present from Ron
to Harry. Ron had a local UK bottler of natural spicy ginger brew
bottle a small run using bottles and labels that Ron designed. Sort of
a private label brewed just for Harry. Eventually, there was enough
interest from friends and other wizards that they turned it into a
full-fledged business.

Harry Potter's Premium Wizard's Brew - similar to the above but
slightly less sweet and with much more ginger 'fire'. Appeals more to
adults whereas regular Wizard's Brew appeals to kids and the faint of
heart.

Harry Potter's Ginger Cream Ice Cream - (actually taste much better
than you might imagine) with monthy flavor variations like strawberry
swirl, peach, raspberry, chocolate swirl, etc.... (Actually, made and
sold  by Mr. Fortescue for Harry)

Harry Potter Ginger Cream Ice Cream Snack Bars (ice cream on a stick
dipped in chocolate) - plain, raspberry swirl, with toffee bits, with
chocolate bits, with almond bits, and coffee. (Made in a factory run
by elves, and under the quality control supervision of Mr. Fortescue.)

Harry Potter's Emerald Eyes Full Flavored Gin - Very similar to Bombay
Sapphire, very smooth, but with a stronger more distinct flavor. The
full flavor of Dutch gin combined with the complexity, mildness, and
subtlety of the best London Dry Gin. Distilled using standard methods,
but the botanical flavors are magically infused which accounts for it
'full flavor'. 

Harry Potter's Ginger Shandy (or Shandygaff) - Only occassionally
available. This is a UK summer drink made by mixing lemonade
(Sprite/7-Up not real leamonade) or ginger ale with light golden Lager
(beer). 

Harry Potter's Gin & Ginger - a mild premixed and bottled blend of
Wizard's Brew and HP Emerald Gin. Only available at special events.

Ron Weasley's Red Hot Meat Sticks - slim 'bar food'-type spicy
pepperoni meat snacks spiced with hot/cool/sweet ginger blend.

Ron Weasley's Ginger-Spiced Mustard - common spice mustard with a
pleasant hint of ginger. Taste great on the next products listed.

Harry Potter's Ginger Cured Hams - Ginger cured and sweet ginger
glazed. Available to the general public, both muggle and magic.

Harry Potter's Ginger Feed Ginger Cured Hams - available only to
magical commercial outlets like bars, cafes, Inns, etc.... The pigs
are feed the scrap Ginger from the HP Wizard's Brew factory. I really
gives the meat a nice mild but interesting flavor. Hams are then
ginger cured and ginger glazed. Although, the rest of the pig is not
wasted. The Ginger Lemon Pork Chops (recipe available upon request -
REALLY) available at the Three Broomstick are ooooooooh soooooo good.

Harry Potter's Lemon Candied Ginger - thinly shaved ginger glazed with
 sweet highly concentrated lemon ginger syrup. Also, made for the
left-overs of the Wizard's Brew factory

The output of the HP Wizard's Brew factory comes in two forms;
drinkable liquid in bottles and a highly concentrated syrup. Harry and
Ron tried to think up other ways they could use the syrup, and that
eventually lead to the other 'ginger' products. The first invented,
after Wizard's Brew, was Ginger Cream Ice Cream. Other products
evolved from their.

Other NON-edible Harry/Ron products-

Harry Potter's Personal Care Products - this is an off-shoot of
something Fred and George invented. Initially, it was invented as a
personal lubricant (I can say no more) that had lubricating, cleaning,
and disinfecting properties in addition to a wide range of desirable
fruit and other flavors. Harry got the idea to enhance the various
core aspect in order to create a several new lines of products which
resulted in the following.

Harry Potter's Magic Shampoo and Conditioners - non-toxic to the point
of being nearly edible, non-irritating even if you get it in your
eyes. Very mild and especial safe for kids, but strong enough to tame
even Hagrid's hair.

Harry Potter's Magic Bar Soap - Looks similar to muggle glycerin soap.
also available in liguid hand soap. Also, a handy waterless hand cleaner.

Harry Potter's Magic Cleaners - general purpose, furniture polish and
reconditioner, surface disinfector, other assorted general cleaning
prodcuts.

Additional Business Ventures-

Harry and Ron help Dobby start several businesses. First, Dobby is
hired as a consultant to perfect there various food recipes. Then
Harry get's the idea of Dobby's House-Elf Catering, which in turn
leads to Dobby's House-Elf Bakery. Dobby, who marries Winky,
eventually becomes one very rich Elf.

My Theory - (HA! Like you really thought you could get away without
hearing one of my theories.)

There is the question of what Harry will do after Hogwarts. My theory
is that Harry will try an assortment of ventures including being a
Auror, but will eventually discover that an investment he made very
early on has paid tremendous benefits, and that a brilliant career was
mapped out for him without him even realizing it.

I am speaking, of course, of his investment in Fred and George's Joke
Shop which I speculate will expand into other areas and make millions
for everyone close to the Weasley family. Even expanding to the point
where Weasley's will become the largest employer in the wizard world
and a very substantial muggle business as well.

Initially Harry will refuse repayment of the money he gave to Fred and
George. So, unknown to Harry, and as a way of repaying him, Fred and
George will make Harry a full partner in the business and just stash
Harry profit into Gringott's until Harry gets tired of struggling with
lesser job. Once the Weasleys are successful, and Harry is slightly
down and out, they will tell him about the many many thousands of
Galleons stashed in the bank in his name, and ask Harry to join the
business. Harry turns out to be a tremendous asset and adds the many
money making product mentioned above. Since many of these products
aren't truly magical, they can be sold in the muggle market as well.

There are several other important products and business ventures
beside the ones I mentioned that Harry and Ron are responsible for.
Most of which are actually Harry's ideas.

There, aren't you glad you asked?

Steve/asian_lovr2 (was bboy_mn, hope to be bboyminn)