[HPforGrownups] Butterbeer (Was: Re: Spoilers?? Where are They)

[Marion Ros]

No: HPFGUIDX 171685

Carol responds:
>>>And/or butterscotch, which sounds as if it has liquor in it but
doesn't. I've always imagined butterbeer as butterscotch-flavored
rootbeer, with just the tiniest amount of liquor in it--not enough to
affect a 120-pound thirteen-year-old (except possibly to make him even
giddier than usual, if he happens to be Ron), but more than enough to
affect a thirty-pound house-elf, especially if she's drinking six
bottles a day. Body weight is surely the main factor here.<<<

Marion
And/or maybe Elves get all tiddly on sugar, not on alcohol. We don't even know *what* Elves eat (they could, for all we know, live on woodpulp and sulfur and think a box of matches a gourmet meal) so the joke might just be that the kids drink this ginger beer/ root ale/ butterscotch (good catch, that, the butterscotch connection) harmless-to-humans sugary fizzy drink, and a House Elf gets all sloshed on it.



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