[HPforGrownups] Digest Number 1031

[Ellen Glassie]

No: HPFGUIDX 22003

> 2)  Why does no one have tea in the books?  Heidi
has a fascinating 
> theory about this that I buy (she was a history
major once upon a 
> time), but why no tea in the wizarding world, yet
house-elves wear 
> tea-cozies and tea-towels?  This tea thing is really
so much a part 
> of the culture here that I immediately wondered
about its absence 
in the books.  Unless I am forgetting something...

Perhaps Professor Trewlawney sequesters the majority
of tea at Hogwarts in order to make more morbid
predictions. Nonetheless, it seems to me that there is
no great absense of tea-drinking, but all I have with
me are french versions, which I have a hard time
navigating to produce examples.

Ellen,
Gryffindor according to the Official Site and Queen of
Implausible and Useless Theories

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