[HPforGrownups] Howarts Food

[Amber]

No: HPFGUIDX 19465


--- Scott <insanus_scottus at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> I am suprised that the trio aren't so fat the had to waddle up the 
> stairs. Of course it is fiction, so as realistic as the characters 
> may seem they can still eat as many helpings of pudding as they can 
> hold and not gain an inch. (sigh).

Within many other book series that deal with magic, it seems to be the
consensus that doing magic takes up a great deal of energy. One author
(not JKR) likened magic to standing on one leg on top of the rain
gutter of a three-story house while juggling three apples and reciting
an epic poem at the top of your lungs in another language. It takes
incredible concentration and energy. I just assumed that JKR's world
worked on a similar magic system. Hence the big, heavy meals.

Of course, we don't *know* that magic works that way. JKR hasn't
precisely set down the rules to my satisfaction anyways. But that would
be my guess.

~Amber


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"I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, 
I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, 
I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, 
if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will come right, 
that this cruelty too will end..."
 - Anne Frank "The Diary of a Young Girl"

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