[HPforGrownups] Flesh-eating slug repellent

[jazmyn]

No: HPFGUIDX 47363



redandgoldlion wrote:
> 
>   Okay, I'm not very good at posting messages so please bear with me.
> I'm sure this topic has already been discussed, but I can't find it
> in the archives. If someone would point me in the direction of this
> discussion, I'll be very thankful.
>   In CoS when Harry is in Knockturn Alley, he runs into Hagrid. Now
> when Harry asks Hagrid what he's doing there, Hagrid says something
> like,I'm getting flesh eating slug repellent because they slugs are
> ruining the school cabbages (sorry I can't site that, I don't have my
> book with me). I was wondering why *flesh* eating slugs would be
> eating *cabbages.* When I looked up "flesh" on dictionary.com it
> brought up:
> 

As it turned out, he got the stuff for the mandrakes.  Maybe he was
joking about cabbages...

Jazmyn