[HPforGrownups] Can Ghosts Drink?

[jazmyn]

No: HPFGUIDX 47500



erisedstraeh2002 wrote:
> 
> A question that occurred to me after watching the CoS movie (this is
> a canon-based question, I promise): Can ghosts drink?  We know that
> Nearly Headless Nick tells Ron and Harry that he hasn't eaten in over
> 400 years in PS/SS, and all of the food at the Deathday party in CoS
> is rotten so that the ghosts can smell it as they pass through.  But
> they can't *eat* it.  So can they drink?  Because wouldn't Nearly
> Headless Nick have had to drink the Mandrake draught in order to be
> un-petrified?
> 
> It seems to me that if ghosts can't eat, they shouldn't be able to
> drink, either.  But then how was Nearly Headless Nick restored?
> 
> ~Phyllis

Maybe his condition wore off in time, as he could not be killed, being
already dead, maybe he is not material enough to remain petrified for
more then a few months.  Or maybe one could take a plant sprayer and
mist him with the potion?  Maybe there's a spell to make something
non-living 'ghosted', so that ghosts can get new clothes or ghost
items?  

How would, in fact, ANY petrified person drink? Living or ghost? 
Possibly the potion is applied externally?  

Jazmyn