[HPforGrownups] Flesh-eating slug repellent

[jazmyn]

No: HPFGUIDX 47370



Amanda Geist wrote:
> 
> > redandgoldlion wrote:
> 
> an excellent question which had been niggling at me and never rose to
> the
> surface, about why flesh-eating slugs would be eating cabbage (giving
> rise
> to the inevitable, "*was* that why Hagrid was there...?"
> 
> Jazmyn responded
> >
> > As it turned out, he got the stuff for the mandrakes.  Maybe he was
> > joking about cabbages...
> 
> *sirens go off* L.O.O.N. alert! Movie poisoning! I may be wrong (given
> that
> I haven't read the books start-to-finish in a rather long time and I'm
> short
> on sleep with sick kids), but I *think* this comes from a side mention
> in
> the movie, and is not in the books.
> 
> Someone with more time and no sick children or a better memory want to
> go
> check?
> 
> ~Amanda


Well, Rowling approved it. You know as well as I that she oversees the
script changes.  You know shes explaining more details to the studio
then we ever get from her books.  Besides, it makes sense as mandrakes
would be more likely to be made of 'magical'? flesh then a cabbage. 
Either that or the background magic is mutating the slugs, which would
make Prof Spout's job harder then it looks.  Out battling hoards of
magically mutated tomato worms.. (shudder)

Or maybe 'flesh eating' sounded better then just buying regular slug
repellent that he could have got at any muggle gardening store.. ie. it
was called that for 'effect' and having nothing to so with what it was
being used on.

Jazmyn