Nearly Headless Nick in CoS

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No: HPFGUIDX 21010

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Kelly the Yarn Junkie <klhurt at y...> wrote:
> Okay, this has been driving me batty since I first read the book:  
How
> was Nearly Headless Nick revived after petrification?  He's a 
ghost, so
> he couldn't actually ingest a potion and a topical solution would 
flow
> right through him.
> 
> Kelly the Yarn Junkie
> (who has a list of non-plot-related nitpicky questions)

That bothered me for awhile along with him actually being petrified 
but I figure the potion flowing through him was enough to cure his 
odd situation.  Besides, several of the potions we've seen work 
without really being digested, once they're 'inside' the potion goes 
to work.
~Star~