Funny where HP turns up!

[Geoff]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

Carol:
> Even the educational TV show "Nova" had a Harry Potter reference. Last night I was watching an episode about the evolution of flowering plants. One of the scientists was excited to find mandragora fruit, which he had been looking for for a long time, and referred to the plant as "mandragora, made famous by the Harry Potter series" (or Harry Potter books, I forget his exact words).
> 
> I didn't laugh, of course, but I was pleasantly surprised.
> 
> Carol, who always associates mandragora (mandrake) with John Donne

Geoff:
I originally posted this at about 20:00 GMT yesterday and it seems to 
have gone AWOL. Oddly, a post I sent a day or so ago took ten hours 
to appear....

John Donne immediately makes me think of "no man is an island" and "never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee".

But mandragora?

Can you, O wisest of Carols enlighten me please?
:-)