Twelve?

[Caius Marcius]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "annemehr" <annemehr at y...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Amanar" <naama2486 at y...> 
wrote:
> > I've been wondering- 
> > what *are* the twelve uses of dragon blood?
> > 
> > Anyone wants to take a guess?
> > -- Amanar
> 
> Well, JKR said the twelfth one was oven cleaner...
> 
> So:
> 
> 12. Oven cleaner.
> 
> 11. An ingredient in a very potent medicine that cures *whatever* 
ails
> you and some things that don't.  Has unfortunate side effect of 
making
> you lose all your hair, as though it were singed off.
> 
> 10. A solvent for magical paint (the kind they use for those 
portraits).
> 
> That's probably enough out of me -- anyone else?

I once wrote a filk on the topic:

http://home.att.net/~coriolan/places/beasts.htm#The_Twelve_Magic_Uses

   - CMC