[HPforGrownups] Can Ghosts Drink?

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In a message dated 11/30/02 8:15:42 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
erisedstraeh2002 at yahoo.com writes:


> 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

When *I* asked this question (which is a rather good one I think) I think the 
best suggestion was that they heated it and the steam went up through Nearly 
Headless Nick (I can't remember who said it - sorry!)

Jazmyn then wrote:
>>How would, in fact, ANY petrified person drink? Living or ghost? 
>>Possibly the potion is applied externally?  

I think that since most of them were frozen with their mouths open (*if* 
TMTSNBN2 is correct) that the Mandrake potion would be poured down their 
throats.  I think TMTSNBN2 is correct in that assumption (that their mouths 
were open) because if I saw something like that, I'd scream.  If I just 
imagined that and it wasn't in the movie, then it would make sense that their 
mouths be open.

~*~*~Oryomai~*~*~
(Who drank *way* too much coffee today!)


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