[HPforGrownups] Re: Fire Breathing Chicken in a Cardboard Box

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 184452

> "yak1605522"  wrote:
> snip
>> On page 130:
>>
>>   "Level four, Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical
>> Creatures, incorporating Beast, Being, and Spirit Divisions, Goblin
>> Liason Office, and Pest Advisory Bureau."
>>   "'S'cuse," said the wizard carrying the fire-breathing chicken and
>> he left the lift pursued by a little flock of memos.
>
> Potioncat:
> This is really funny--a fire-breathing chicken! And as a second joke,
> a fire-breathing anything in a cardboard box. BTW, are there
> restaurants in England that serve chicken in boxes? There are several
> chains in the US that do. You'll get a piece of chicken, a biscuit
> and fries or some other side served in a small box. So maybe there's
> a 3rd joke.

Shelley:
I hadn't thought of KFC or Jack-in-the-Box or the other deep fried chicken 
restaurants when I first read that passage, but now it's even funnier to me. 
Thanks for that. Self cooking chicken! Just at the age that the chicken is 
perfect to eat, it develops the habit of roasting itself. LOL

My daughter automatically thought of a magical protection for the box- a 
spell put on it, once they realized that the animal was going to destroy the 
container, so that they could carry the animal without the destruction of 
the box. It makes sense to me that aurors and other peacekeepers would need 
to know a whole host of handy spells for just such an occasion, to be able 
to "bring in" dangerous items without they themselves getting burnt or 
injured- cursed items, fiery items, items with acid or other dangers. They 
would need to modify a container (or summon one) that could handle the item 
in question for safe transport. So, I would just assume that one of them had 
cast a spell to make the box fireproof before adding the chicken.