Can Ghosts Drink?

[Melody]

No: HPFGUIDX 47501

Phyllis wisely asked:

> 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?


There was no punch on the Deathday party table, so it seems if they
could drink, then *that* would of been at the party.

Well, McGonagall could conjure up a fan to move him, so maybe Madam
Pomfrey could mist it on him.  Or even steam a vapour that could carry
the droplets down his ghost throat.  Given that he is a spirit, how
was it that he was petrified in the first place?  Did it more freeze
the image on him?  If a fan could move him, then he is somehow kind of
solid?

Sorry, I posed more questions than I answered.


Melody