[HPforGrownups] Flesh-eating slug repellent

[GulPlum]

No: HPFGUIDX 47373

At 11:02 28/11/02 -0600, 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...?"

Strangely enough, I've always read it as the Repellent being flesh-eating, 
not the slugs, i.e. the product is a flesh-eating repellent for slugs. It's 
only on reading this thread that I've realised that the name could mean 
repellent for flesh-eating slugs.

In my reading, there is of course no problem. :-)

>*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.

Quite. Although it's not really a side mention. In the book, Harry tells 
Ron & Hermione about Hagrid having been shopping for it, for the cabbages; 
in the movie, Hagrid actually walks past them with a fresh supply, stating 
its purpose is for the Mandrakes (which, incidentally, are in the 
greenhouse, and therefore presumably safer from pests?).

One way or another, Hagrid's role is definitely fishy.

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GulPlum AKA Richard, who has finally found an hour for some HPFGUing!