Mandrake Restorative Potion

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 159771

---  "wrexx1" <wrexx at ...> wrote:
>
> My granddaughter has stumped me (once again) with a 
> magical question, hope you folks can help: How does one
> administer the Mandrake Restorative Potion to people 
> who are essentially petrified? If the answer to that 
> one is too easy, then how about dealing with Nearly
> Headless Nick for me. Since ghosts, paralyzed or 
> otherwise, are incapable of eating or drinking, how do
> we fix up Nick?
> Thanks
> Wrexx
>

bboyminn:

Well, the answer is both easier and harder than you think.
Of course, you can alway do what I do and make something 
up, but you have to make it up in a fair, reasonable, and
consistent way.

For example, how do you know the Restorative Potion is not
a salve? Well, one way is to realize that it is not the 
Mandrake Restorative Balm, but the Restorative 'Draught'.
'Draught' or 'Draft' implies drinking, but it also implies
inhaling, so, they may have simply created a steam of 
Mandrake Draft and let the fumes waif over the injured 
person. That could just as easily explain Nick, may be 
they just infused the steam into Nick and he revived. Or,
just as easily we could suppose that Nick was only 
Stunned since he was already dead, and he revived on his
own. 

Another explanation is that they dropped drops of Draft
into the victum's mouth. Even if the victum couldn't 
eat, swallow, move, whatever, the Draft would have still
seeped into their mouth and then into their stomach and 
then into their bloodstream where it would work it's 
magic. 

Again, I can't prove any of these, I'm just trying to 
illustrate that reasonable explanations can be made up
if you assume there is one, and then...well...make it
up.

For what it's worth.

Steve/bboyminn