[HPforGrownups] Peppermint Humbugs

[Catherine Keegan]

No: HPFGUIDX 29251

At 09:28 PM 11/14/01 +0000, you wrote:
>  he knows what a Peppermint Humbug is? He is
>pulling all sorts of junk out of Hagrids pockets and we read the list
>of items he finds. It seems to me that since this is supposed to be
>Harry's POV, shouldn't he have said something like "a strange
>peppermint sort of candy" since he would not have seen a Humbug before
>as they are Wizzard candy such as chocolate frogs?

Nope.  It's a British candy.  On one of my trips to the UK, my cube mate 
made it very clear that I was to bring him back humbugs.  I was worried 
that it was some kind of obscure candy and was very relieved to find out 
that it was easy to obtain.

I'm sure the Dursleys fed Duddums a bunch of them.  And I'm also sure that 
Harry got to watch.

Catherine in California