[HPforGrownups] Can Ghosts Drink?

[jazmyn]

No: HPFGUIDX 47503



SnapesSlytherin at aol.com wrote:
>  
> 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!)
> 

(hands you some Decaf)

Problem is, you can pour it down their throat all you want, but they
cannot swallow. Its like, great, you drowned the poor guy.. Least he
doesn't have to worry about being petrified anymore, but now he's dead
instead.. No, if they are petrified, there's no way they can swallow
anything, even if their mouths are open.. There ARE other ways of
administering the potion, such as an enema or injecting into the
stomach, but I seriously doubt that Rowling would want to bore us with
the details if they DID use enemas. (note the large intestine absorbs
drugs and such faster then even the stomach, which makes it a good way
to get a drug (or potion) into someone's system fast.)  This wouldn't
work on ghosts very well, but there is likely some way to do it that the
books may never explain.. 

Jazmyn