Runes and Butterbeer

[Kirsty Lowson]

No: HPFGUIDX 122027


All this talk of runes set me to checking things
in my books (oh, it is good when your bookshelves
are right next to your computer!) and I was
looking at the back of OOP (UK Bloomsbury HB)
when I noticed that there are loads of runes on
the back.

Are these significant to the story (as far as we
know) or could they be prophetic? I''ve had a
look in the archives and can't find discussion of
them, so can someone either point me in the right
direction or maybe work out what runes they are?
I know no runes at all, apart from some Viking
ones I learned in Primary 4 (erk... um...
twelve-odd years ago!).

On a side note, about butterbeer -- I always
assumed it wasn't alcoholic, until the Winky
episode. Then, well, I don't know. Either the WW
has very different laws regarding alcohol to the
MW, or it isn't really alcoholic. If it was,
there is no way the students would get away with
buying it in the Three Broomsticks -- it must be
blatantly obvious every time there's a Hogsmeade
weekend, if the village isn't pre-warned anyway!

It could be similar to Germany, I suppose -- last
I heard, you can buy beer from 14 and other
alcoholic drinks from 16 (having said that, I was
on a school exchange trip, so we might not have
been told the exact truth... ;)

Anyway, it can't be more than 2 or 3% -- WInky is
getting through "6 bottles a day" and the Trio
seem to be surprised she's in that state.

Kirsty

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