Flesh-eating slug repellant

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 98285

<humantupperware1 at y...> wrote:
Personally, what I would like to know is, He says he's buying flesh-
eating slug repellent because they are destroying his cabbages, but 
why would a FLESH_EATING slug eat cabbages?????

Khilari responded:
Possibly it is the slug repellent that is flesh eating, ie. it eats 
the slugs. Either that or Hagrid has done some highly unusual 
gardening.
 

Carol:
What strikes me as odd (besides the idea of cabbage as "flesh") is
that Hagrid would need to go to Knockturn Alley to buy flesh-eating
slug *repellant.* Now if he wanted to buy the slugs themselves,
Knockturn Alley would be the very place for such obviously Dark
creatures. But you'd think he could buy the repellant in Diagon
Alley--defense against Dark creatures as opposed to the dark creatures
themselves.

Anyway, I don't think Hagrid is a bad guy, but that particular story
has always smelled fishy to me.

Carol