Potterverse characters and tea. - ... More Tea

[Carol]

bboyminn wrote:
> 
> Ohhh..tea. First, I'm a hot (or cold) tea with lemon kind of guy.
Now that that is settled, could I indulge you all with some general
tea questions.
> 
> Milk - before or after? That is, tea in the cup and add milk, or
milk in the cup and add tea? One problem I have with milk in tea is
that the tea cools down when you pour the milk in. Then I find myself
drinking unpleasant luke-warm tea. As a side note, I don't mind
artificial 'creamer' in my coffee, but it just doesn't seem to work
the well with tea. <snip>

Carol responds: 

I don't drink hot tea unless I'm ill, and I'd never put milk in it. (I
use powdered creamer in coffee partly for the reason you state, that
milk makes the coffee cold. I don't like the taste of half-and-half;
somehow, Coffeemate tastes the way I imagined cream to taste, sweet
and rich and creamy, not sour like real cream. And I like to watch it
dissolving as the heated molecules chase each other in the cup, always
counter-clockwise like water going down a drain in the Northern
hemisphere, if I'm remembering correctly. (It's 7:53 p.m. and I'm not
going to make coffee at this hour to verify my observations!)
Seriously, I don't care about chemicals. I care about how it tastes
and whether the coffee is hot.

As for cold tea, I'm with you. A glass of Lipton iced tea with lemon
can be refreshing though I'd rather have an Arnold Palmer. (I don't
know if the Brits on the list know what an Arnold Palmer is: It's a
combination of iced tea and lemonade (I like it with raspberry
lemonade), named after a famous American golfer of the 1950s and '60s.

Carol, who snipped the HP character's tea preferences but thinks that
Severus prefers the blude-rede wine (as in "the ballad of sir Patrik
Spens") to tea any day