[HPforGrownups] Re: Alcohol (and other things) in OOP

[marilyn at gehennom.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 68963

Glory wrote:
> <<<As well as the whole use of Fire Whiskey and Buterbeer, did anyone 
> else notice the use of 'pipe weed'? Almost Hobbit-esque, among other 
> things, don't you think?>>

and rach:
> I dont remember pipe weed - was that what Dung was smoking in the 
> Kitchen of Gimmauld Place?  That's even better role modelling! (well 
> modelling the consequences of negative behaviour anyway). 

Heehee, yes, Mundungus has "great billowing clouds of greenish smoke"
around his muddled self in the Grimmauld Place kitchen that first night
Harry arrives.  I was quite curious as to what types of mind-altering
plants wizards might have access to that we do not!  Trelawney's smoky,
hazy room always makes Harry groggy and forgetful, as well...  :)

--marilyn, probably one of the few people who already knows from
personal experience how freaky the thestrals are in the LSD-affected!OoP

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