Happy Hour

[lilium_evansiae]

HAPPY HOUR
Eat five
Bertie Bott's Every-Flavour Beans
and your first drink
is free.

Lily sets a large bowl of what appear to be perfectly innocent jelly beans next to the sign.

"Any takers?"

[OOC: It is entirely up to you whether your pup gets things like strawberry and peppermint, or winds up with liver and earwax

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[gotham_knocking]

"OK, what's the catch?" Free drinks are never that easy.

[lilium_evansiae]

"They're not lying about the 'every-flavour' thing," Lily says. "So a white one might be coconut, or it might be tripe. They're every flavor."

[gotham_knocking]

"Seriously? So it's really, really random?" He thinks about it. "Why would anyone make that?"

[lilium_evansiae]

"Because they sell really, really well," Lily says, laughing.

"And, yeah. It's really, really random.

"The last one I ate was turnip."

[gotham_knocking]

"Do I want to know to know who buys them?" He takes a blue one, ponders it, and eats it. "OK, that was weird. Tastes like Gatorade."

[lilium_evansiae]

"They're very popular at school," Lily says. And then grins. "Especially as gifts.

"What's Gatorade?"

[gotham_knocking]

"Gag gifts, mo doubt." Though he is lucky enough not to gag on a red jelly bean that tastes like strawberry.

"Gatorade is a drink you use when you're working up a sweat in a sporting event and need to replace electrolytes. It only tastes decent when you need it." Or so the ads claim.

[lilium_evansiae]

Lily hasn't understood much of that explanation, but she nods, anyway.

"Not really," she says. "We all know they're going to be odd flavors. And they can be a lot of fun, to eat with your friends. I mean, it's often more fun to see what everyone else gets than what you do, but still."

[gotham_knocking]

"Like kids at a party mixing all the sodas and seeing what it tastes like." Which he used to do at bar mitzvahs, long ago.

"Hm. What a strange color of gray." He tastes it. "No flavor at all."

[lilium_evansiae]

"Really?

"I've never heard of a no-flavor Bertie Bott's bean.

" ... I hope it's not one of the ones that sneaks up on you."

[gotham_knocking]

"So far, so good." But he waits before taking the next. A green one.

"Here goes." He chews. And makes a face. "Lime. I think. Sour."

[lilium_evansiae]

"That was weird, the first time I had them. That the flavors like lime actually were sour.

"I mean, Muggle candy, even when it's lime-flavored, it's still fairly sweet, you know?"

[gotham_knocking]

"Muggle...I know that word. You're some sort of wizard, right?" You stay here long enough, and you learn things.

[lilium_evansiae]

"Well, technically, I'm a witch, but, yeah, basically."

[gotham_knocking]

"So these are magic beans.

"They aren't going to turn me into a toad, or grow a beanstalk, right?" You stay here long enough, and you learn to ask. Eventually.

[lilium_evansiae]

"No, the magic's just in the flavors.

"No beanstalks, no transformations.

"Promise."