Whereas Ginny jumped Harry the first moment she could ...
Totally.
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Whereas Ginny jumped Harry the first moment she could ...
Totally.
For some reason, I've always imagined butterbeer as a sort of butterscotch/root beer hybrid, all foamy and rich and spicy and alcohol-reminiscent without actually being alcohol. The color of cream soda, but with a very dense Guinness-like head. I've never seen it or tasted it (obviously, on account of the not existing), but I feel certain I'd recognize it in a second if I ever did.
There's lots of flower names. Lily, Petunia, Narcissa, Lavender, Pansy
Don't forget about the firewhiskey and wine drunk in DH, in addition to the mead in HBP.
I just read a drabble at Sugar Quill that had Neville learning from one of his students that the kid has a cousin named Neville (his aunt was a sixth year who fought at the Battle of Hogwarts). He, of course, being Neville, was flabbergasted at the tribute.
There's lots of flower names. Lily, Petunia, Narcissa, Lavender, Pansy
Feeling even more stupid by the minute.
Doesn't Dobby's wife get drunk on butterbeer, though? Would seem to indicate at least a little alcohol content.
Winky gets trashed on butterbeer. One of the kids says (roughly) "but that's not very strong stuff" "It is to a house elf"
So there's something to it.
Poor Dobby.
I want a Petunia II and Lily II going to school together fic. RIGHT NOW.
Wrod. And yet, I want Lily II to be a vicious bitch and Petunia II to be a sweetheart. Because I'm... like that, apparently.
I want some of JZ's butterbeer.