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

[Maeg]

No: HPFGUIDX 171744

On Jul 13, 2007, at 1:35 PM, Marion Ros wrote:
> 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.

True. There have been references to "elf wine", however. Snape offers  
it to Narcissa and Bellatrix when they visit him at Spinner's End.  
And was it elf wine that Slughorn brought to Aragog's funeral? I  
always assumed it was wine made by elves (not wine made of elves).

Regardless, we don't know much about House Elves. And it's always  
possible that there are more than only type of elf in the Potterverse.

Margaret

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