Is gillyweed in gillywater?

[Fred Waldrop <fredwaldrop@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 52347

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Fred Waldrop 
<fredwaldrop at y...>" <fredwaldrop at y...> wrote:
> I have looked in Harry Potter Lexiton, even E-mailed the Editor to 
> find out, but alas, no luck yet. So, I came here, to where there  
>are thousands of people with better minds than mine.
> My question is :Is gillyweed in gillywater?
> The reason I ask this, in Harry Potter PoA, Professor McGonagall 
> receives a drink she ordered (Chapter 10,page 202, USA edition), it 
> was "gillywater".
> But, in Harry Potter GoF, Harry used "gillyweed" to transform 
>himself to be able to breath under water for the 2nd task,(he got 
>gills after eating the gillyweed,[chapter 26, page 494, USA 
>edition]), and if gillywater has gillyweed in it, why did it not 
>transform Professor McGonigall?
> 
> 
> Fred Waldrop


Hello All;

Well it has been a little over a week since I last posted this, and 
since that time, I have thought about this a bit more. I am now 
asking your opinion on what I have come up with.

As I said in the original post, I E-mailed the "Harry Potter Lexicon"
site, and today, February 16, 2003, they E-mailed me back, making me 
think about the post I had wrote in here once more(I hadn't forgot 
about it, just when in a weeks time and some 1500 other post had sort 
of push my own post back some).

This was their reply:

"Hi:

There is nothing to suggest that there is any connection between the 
two, (although their could be). I think it's most likely that she 
just chose similar names for the two without intending for there to 
be any connection.

Steve Vander Ark
The Harry Potter Lexicon"

While I do not want to say they are wrong, I had just came to a 
differant conclusion since it has been over a week since I E-mailed 
them also. 
Given I had a week to think about this futher, this is what I came up 
with:

 I still think that "Gillywater" has "Gillyweed" in it.
My reasoning is that because Professor McGonagall is so good at 
transfigeration,(remember, she teaches transfigeration at Hogwarts) 
she knows how to stop the transfigeration.
 I guess she just likes the taste of gillyweed, so she drinks 
gillywater, and, as I said, she just stops the transfigeration 
afterward.

Please let me know what you think.

Fred Waldrop