Can Ghosts Drink?

[Indigo]

No: HPFGUIDX 47504

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., jazmyn <jazmyn at p...> wrote:
> 
> 
> SnapesSlytherin at a... 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.

Actually, one can administer liquid to the unconscious, who also 
cannot swallow, by massaging their throats.  

They don't drown, because the valve that allows air down the throat 
is flipped over to "allow swallowing" instead of "allow breathing."  
Petrified people aren't breathing. 

And then there's the hospital method of putting the tube down the 
throat past the valve in question, which'd bypass the swallowing 
reflex altogether.

[snip]


As for Nick? I think a petrified ghost is semi-solid, like a very 
thick fog. So you could just drizzle the mandrake stuff down and it'd 
trickle through slowly like dropping milk into water.

--Indigo