Flesh-eating slug repellent

[redandgoldlion <rpquate@earthlink.net>]

No: HPFGUIDX 53005

Hello, 
  Quite a while ago, I started a discussion on flesh-eating slug 
repellent. Here's the important part of it:
...>In CoS when Harry is in Knockturn Alley, he runs into Hagrid. Now 
> when Harry asks Hagrid what he's doing there, Hagrid says something 
> like,I'm getting flesh eating slug repellent because they slugs are 
> ruining the school cabbages (sorry I can't site that, I don't have 
my 
> book with me). I was wondering why *flesh* eating slugs would be 
> eating *cabbages> <...> >   I suppose Rowling could have 
meant, "The pulpy, usually edible part 
> of a fruit or vegetable," but I somehow feel she meant us to think 
> she was talking about animal flesh. 
>   I don't know if Mrs. Rowling just hadn't thought about it, or if 
> it's suppose to be a clue to some future plot. What was Hagrid 
> *really* doing in Knockturn Alley? Chances are, I just grossly 
> misinterpreted something.... 
   Many people replied and pointed out that they always though "flesh-
eating" referred to the repellent, not the slugs. Today I was re-
reading PoA and I read this when Lupin is taking about boggarts:
"...a headless corpse or a *flesh-eating slug?..." (my emphasis)This 
means, IMHO, that the slugs are indeed "flesh-eating."
   On a side note, I'm a *huge* fan of Hagrid, and I don't think he 
had any "sinister" reason for being in Knockturn Alley, except, 
perhaps, getting some terrible new monster. ;-)
  ~redandgoldlion~