Wizarding World Fauna and Potions for Muggles

[jdr0918]

No: HPFGUIDX 79565

<<<"severusbook4" wrote:...Can you see a muggle trasping through a 
forest and finding a mimblintonia? <sp?> Prodding is odd exterior and 
being covered in ooze.  Or rather a mandrake and thinking it would be 
a nice addition to their garden?...>>>

The Sergeant Majorette says

One of the things I find fascinating about JKR's work is that her 
invention is so seamlessly interwoven with sometimes odd reality that 
you can't always tell when she's kidding: mandrake is a real plant, 
used in alchemy because its root resembles a human body, and there 
are a lot of plants that do odder things than mimbulus, which is an 
invention (I think...)

I also waste a lot of time wondering which of her foods is real and 
which are part of her 'magical' universe. If I didn't know better, 
I'd think that spotted dick was a joke, and are pumpkin pasties just 
pumpkin pies?

--JDR