Food&Drink, Topic Summary and Questions

[Cindy C.]

No: HPFGUIDX 28049

> > QUESTION 2: What do you think of the attitude towards 
the "popular 
> > drugs" coffee, nicotine and alcohol JKR confers to us by means of 
> her books (cigarettes are never mentioned, alcohol mostly has 
> unpleasant consequences and nobody ever drinks coffee in the 
> wizarding world)? A clear message for Muggles like us or a sign 
that 
> wizards are simply  different and don't need certain things?
> 
Wizards have something that Muggles will never have:  the Cheering 
Charm.  Why bother with alcohol and such when one well-placed spell 
will make you giddy?


> 
> > QUESTION 5: Vernon and Dudley Dursley are fat. Aunt Petunia is 
> > skinny, in spite of sharing the same meals. So far, we haven't 
> heard  of fat wizards, albeit their food is, to say the least, 
> hypercaloric.  Might this be an indication that Petunia is the one 
> with yet  unrecognized magical powers?
> 

It could be due to the time-honored excuse for weight problems that 
Muggles use:  genes.  Aunt Marge, like Vernon, is beefy, so Dudley 
probably gets it from Vernon's side of the family.  

Cindy