Spoilers?? Where are They

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 171672

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl at ...> wrote:
>
> Karen:
> >(snip)
> >Perhaps I will purchase a case of 
> >butterbeer along with my book!
> 
> Lauren:
> >Hi,
> >That reminds me: What is butterbeer?  I know they allow the kids to
drink it but 
> >then when some refer to Winky getting drunk on it this made me
wonder about it.  
> 
 

colebiancardi:

When I think of butterbeer, I think of two things:
1.  It is like today's Root Beer - it doesn't contain alcohol, despite
its name.
2.  The effects that butterbeer has on house elves is similar to the
effects that catnip has on cats.  Cats get stoned on catnip.  Yet we
humans drink catnip tea with none of the side effects that cats get. 
  Humans don't get drunk on butterbeer, but house elves do - they do
have a different body type than humans and that makes sense to me

colebiancardi