Food in wizarding world

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No: HPFGUIDX 76514

> >--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sylviablundell2001"
> ><sylviablundell at a...> wrote:
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> >>Kim I'm beginning to get a bit concerned about the enormous
amount 
> >>of food consumed by everyone at Hogswarts.  Hardly a healthy
diet, 
> >>even for growing teens. 

I'm glad someone has brought up this point! They should look like 
young elephants by the time they leave Hogwarts. From what I have 
heard of boarding school food, it's pretty awful. My guess is that 
this is the equivalent of Enid Blyton's "midnight feasts". (Well, the 
Gryffindor common-room parties certainly are, anyway). The author is 
writing a fantasy and children reading it think, "Ooh, wouldn't it be 
nice to go to school *there* Sue B