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"How do you get a Gryffindor to drink pumpkin juice?" Justin said suddenly. Harry stared at him, bewildered.

"Er ... say 'want some nice pumpkin juice?'" he tried.

"Oh, you haven't heard these? You build a tall tower, leave a pitcher of pumpkin juice at the top of it, and then hire two Slytherins to encircle it with traps. How do you get Harry Potter to drink pumpkin juice?"

"Um, how?"

"Leave two pitchers and tell him one is poisoned."

- Wizard's Weapon, by Gateway Girl