Food&Drink, Topic Summary and Questions

[Tasha--Nethilia]

No: HPFGUIDX 28141


> QUESTION 1: Why do neither teachers nor students
> ever eat: Rice, 
> pasta, fish, salad, fresh fruit (with the exception
> of strawberries)? 
> They live on a diet of the most heavy and unhealthy
> food imaginable- 
> just think what teaching or being taught three hours
> in the afternoon 
> with your stomach full of Steak and Kidney pie and
> Trifle must be 
> like!

I think, like others have said, that Harry just
doesn't see it. After all Padma and Parvati may be
Hindu and don't eat beef, a Muslim Wizard or witch
might not eat pork. Harry gets what he wants to eat
(which isn't all too healthy, but I'll let him slide
cause of the Dursleys). I suspect that whatever a
student wants, a Student gets--even salads and fruit. 

> 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?

I think we just don't see who drinks what. There might
be wizards who smoke, or non-nicotine tobacco, or what
have yah. Same with liquor--mebbe it only works on
Hagrid cause he's half giant. Meh. 

> QUESTION 3: What do you think about magical vs. 
> elves' cooking? (Wand 
> vs. elves' magic)

I think the elves might do it by hand. 

> Buckbeak, the Hippogriff, seems to be quite happy
> when served 
> sufficient quantities of dead ferrets (CONSTANT
> VIGILANCE, Draco!!) 

XD!! LOL! 


> QUESTION 4: Where do you think the Fat Lady got her
> chocolate liquors 
> from? Did they have to be in another painting and
> she nicked them, or 
> is there a possibility of getting objects like food,
> but also others 
> into a painting without actually painting them
> there?

I have no clue. 

> 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?

You know, I never thought of that! You might have a
point. 

> QUESTION 6: Do you think there might be a
> constitutional difference 
> between wizards and Muggles? Do wizards have a
> better metabolism that 
> prevents them from becoming obese? Don't they need
> vitamins?

Mebbe Wizarding metabolism works depending on what you
eat--which is why Harry made it 10 years without being
fed properly. If you eat a lot, your body takes it in
faster and vice versa. 

--Neth 

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--Nethilia de Lobo--
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