Chocolate's healing properties, was Re: Dudley

[Kelly L.]

No: HPFGUIDX 67225

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Martin" <saddletank at c...> wrote:

 Since us Muggles eat chocolate all the time and it has no medicinal 
> effect (other than obvious short-term craving satisfaction value ;) ) 
> I assume that either 1) chocolate only has healing properties when 
> eaten by magic folk or 2) the chocolate used to heal in the WW has 
> been charmed.
> 
> Martin


Actually, I think chocolate does contain some sort of antidepressant chemical-
-it causes the body to release endorphins or something like that.  I think JKR 
used chocolate as her anti-dementor "medicine" because it made her feel a 
bit better when she was depressed.

Kelly L., "Hi, My name is Kelly, and I'm a chocoholic"