OOP: Poisoned Honey

[jodel at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 55149

Sorry. I keep flashing on "mad" honey.

Mad honey is the honey made from the nectar of toxic plants. (Specific ones, 
they bloom very early in the spring, mostly in the Balkan States.) The 
properties of the honey from this "early crop" has been known from Classical 
times. The most typical traditional use was to mix it with wine for an extra 
kick. It can be deadly.   There was an article in something like the 
Smithsonian a few years ago.

The sweetly malicious type comes pretty easily to mind. Sounds like she's 
giving you a compliment until you turn your back and find a knife in it. A 
bit like a more subtle Rita Skeeter. (Rita? Surely not!) The big question is 
whether she's nastier to the teachers or to the students.

Although, if any one wants my oppinion. If we're going to bring up overused 
plot devices. I think I would rather deal with Polyjuice, or a Time-Turner, 
or even another unregistered animagus than another evil DADA teacher right 
now. 

-JOdel


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