Gillywater

[Carol]

Lee wrote:
> 
> > I mean the G is hard like Gill, Girl, Garlic.  The word is 
pronounced with this hard G in all the references to Gillywater in the
Jim Dale versions and, if I recall coorectly, in the Stephen Fry
versions, too.
> 
zanooda replied:
> 
> Well, it's not the flower then :-). Thanks!
>
Carol responds:

I think it *is* the flower and that Dale and Fry are simply
pronouncing "gillywater" wrong, no doubt thinking of "gillyweed." But
"gillyflower" (pronounced jillyflower") makes more sense to me than
gillyweed as the basis of a drink served by Madam Rosmerta that both
Luna and Professor Mcgonagall would enjoy--not to mention that
gillywater doesn't produce gills.

Carol, remembering that Romilda Vane also tried to give Harry some
love-potion-laced gillywater