[HPforGrownups] Nearly Headless Nick in CoS

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 21016

At 09:51 AM 6/16/01 -0700, Kelly the Yarn Junkie 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.

In _Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator_, when Willy Wonka must
administer a "potion" to a disembodied, ghost-like entity, he does it
using a pesticide spray.  Perhaps a similar "spraying" was what
was done to Nick.  (And perhaps this is how Quirrell would have
administered the Elixir of Life to V.)



                         -- Dave