Slug repellent

[loonyloopyrjl]

No: HPFGUIDX 80430

Ffred "manawydan" <manawydan at n...> wrote:
>>> ... I've always wondered whether the shop in Knockturn sells a 
repellent that eats the flesh of slugs, or one that repels slugs that 
eat flesh...

Possibly a non-English speaking list member could oblige here?<<<


Loony Loopy responds:
In COS, Hagrid said: "I was lookin' fer a Flesh-Eatin' Slug 
Repellent . . . . They're ruinin' the school cabbages."

In POA, Lupin said of a confused boggart: "Which should he become, a 
headless corpse or a flesh-eating slug?"  From this, we see that 
there *are* slugs in the Potterverse that eat flesh, so maybe those 
were the type of slugs that Hagrid wanted to buy repellent for.

(BTW, "redandgoldlion" posted and answered this question in Messages 
47354 and 53005.)

Good idea, though, to have someone translate a non-English edition 
that would provide clarification.

Loony Loopy,
who can, alas, only speak English