Wizarding Teabags?

[Blaise]

No: HPFGUIDX 1515

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Rita Winston" <catlady at w...> wrote:
<<DO WIZARDS USE TEABAGS??? That is, I am reading Blaise's Second 
Chance Chapter Seven (because I read the post on-list that said she 
had posted Ch 7) and Snape makes Dumbledore's cup of tea with a  
teabag. Even among Muggles, a number of snobs refuse to use teabags,  
and wizard folk seem to cling more to old ways than us Muggles --  
maybe every cup of tea is made in a proper teapot with loose tea that 
is mostly kept out of the cup by the sieve in the spout of the pot.>>

Actually, it was chapter 6 ... I hope you liked it.  

Anyhow, I don't think that Tom Unwin would have kept tea leaves and a 
strainer in his cupboard, so it had to be tea bags in the story.  

On the wider question, someone else has already mentioned that Lupin 
used a teabag for Harry in PoA.  I would imagine that the situation 
is the same for the magical world as for Muggles, with some snobs and 
a majority of people who aren't so fussy.    

I don't think Dumbledore would be snobbish about his tea, and whilst 
there is a faint possibility that Snape, with his regard for perfect 
potions, might be, he probably wouldn't have cared about it when he 
was 18.  

~Blaise.