Unfreezing NHN

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 95789

AmanitaMuscaria wrote:
I'm re-reading CoS (yet again), and was trying to work out how N-H-
Nick got unpetrified. 
> 
> Carolyn:
> I have often puzzled over this myself. I decided that they boiled up 
> some Mandrake solution and gave Nick a steam-bath, so it percolated 
> all through him !
> 
> Lynette:
> 
> I thought that they sprayed it on him using a magical version of a
garden sprayer  -- soaking the entire ghost.

Carol:
I don't know if anyone will get this except me, but I keep thinking
that since a ghost is a spirit, the proper cure would be spirit(s) of
mandrake, that is, the essence of mandrake in a distilled liquid form,
like spirit(s) of ammonia or turpentine. It's a pun that occurs to me
whenever I read the scene, but I'm probably the only person who's
amused by it.

In any case, the petrified Nick is substantial enough to be fanned
upstairs and placed on a bed, so I think essence (spirits) of mandrake
could be sprinkled on him without going through him as it would in his
normal state.

Carol