Flesh-eating slug repellent

[finwitch <finwitch@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 53029

redandgoldlion wrote:


>    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."

Me:
 
I wonder if the slug little Kevin enlarged with his Daddy's wand 
*was* a flesh-eating one.

However-- I think the slugs might eat the flesh of a worm - and worms 
manipulate the ground to be better for vegetables(including cabbage) 
to "eat". So the cabbage *could* be ruined because of the slugs 
eating things that help cabbage to grow...

>   ~redandgoldlion~:

>    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. ;-)

Me:
We do know that Hagrid was expelled and had his wand officially 
broken for a crime of Tom Riddle, who had framed Hagrid.

Hagrid being shopping in the Knockturn Alley reflects his status as a 
wizard with an officially broken wand, as Hagrid was *then*, in the 
beginning of CoS. Harry's revealing the truth and clearing the name 
of an innocent Hagrid was no small matter according to Dumbledore...

Maybe Hagrid would have had a little trouble buying Slug-repellent 
alone in Diagon Alley because of his 'broken wand' - status? That the 
salesperson would ignore him or scold him about a matter that Hagrid 
didn't do 50 years ago?

-- Finwitch