Ok, Stupid Question (butterbeer)

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No: HPFGUIDX 121962


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eggplant9998" 
<eggplant9998 at y...> wrote:
> 
> > What is Butterbeer, and why, seeing that
> > it contains alcohol, are the students 
> > allowed to have it? 
> 
> You're not the first to ask that question, in Stephen King's 
glowing 
> review of Order Of The Phoenix he says this: 
> 
> "The distinction between "children's literature" and plain 
> old "literature" has ceased to exist. The latest Potter adventure 
> could be The Cather in the Rye, minus the dirty words and the 
> drinking...or maybe just the dirty words: Just what the hell is 
> butterbeer, anyway?"
> 
> Eggplant

imamommy

I'm a Yank, so I don't know if this is right, but aren't the drinking 
laws more lax through most of Europe? .

I first thought maybe it was like rootbeer, but after the scene with 
Winky I started assuming it was mildly alchoholic, and I always 
imagined it as sweet (butter rum Lifesavers come to mind), and as 
they only get it in Hogsmeade they aren't really supposed to have it 
on campus.

Ogden's Old Firewhisky seems to be a different story.

imamommy