Cabbages (was re:Hogwarts Express, etc.....)

[Stephanie Roark Keener]

No: HPFGUIDX 22109

> Big Bad A.D. (Albus Dumbledore?) wrote:
> 
> > Mrs Figg ...  smells of cabbage and cats ... Arabella
> > Figg...   Mundungus Fletcher... coincidence?  I THINK NOT!!!!!
> 

And Rita wrote:
<snipped some stuff on Mundungus -- totally interesting good guy -- & 
the Mrs. Figg debate>
> There was even some discussion long ago on this list of the smell of
> cabbages. One suggestion was that Mrs. Figg's house smells like 
cabbages
> because that is the smell of magic. I think that is contradicted by 
no
> mention of the Burrow or the Leaky Cauldron smelling of cabbage. 
Another
> suggestion was the wizarding folk, that is the ones who don't have
> Muggle parent(s) or spouse, somehow believe that all Muggles smell 
of
> cabbages, so they use that odor when trying to disguise themselves 
as
> Muggles. 
> 

Rather than the smell of magic, it think it must be the smell of many 
a brewing potion.  It's Snape's dungeon that smells like cabbages 
(the first time Harry goes in it in SS/PS).  AND, in CoS, when Harry 
drinks the Polyjuice it reminds him of overcooked cabbage.   (oh, I 
need to weed mine, cabbage, that is, not polyjuice).

Stephanie
PS, Rita, why aren't you signing on and off as "Catlady" anymore?  I 
always imagined that you might be some kind of feline super-hero, 
have you hung up the heels and leotard?  ;-)