Drooble's, Neville's Gran, St. Mungos ( was Re: Mimbulus Mimbletonia)

[hermionegallo]

No: HPFGUIDX 79003

Brief Chronicles:
> The bubblegum wrapper makes me really wonder. There has to be a 
> reason Neville's mom handed it to him ... <snip>
> What could bubblegum symbolize? Hasn't she given him a lot of 
them already? Do the wrappers say anything on them? Have we ever 
heard of bubblegum wrappers before in the series? Could bubblegum 
be a device to save the world from LV?  ;) > >

James Redmont:
> I don't have any strong theory on what the 
> significance of the gum actually is, only that it probably *is* 
> significant.  Actually, I think I'll look up what effects the gum 
> has...I think they were the ones that made the giant bubbles that 
> wouldn't pop or something (correct me if I'm wrong).  I'd like to 
> know where they're getting this gum in the first place!  Maybe 
Great Uncle Algie's sending it, and maybe he's put some kind of plant 
> extract in it that's making them stay insane.  Or maybe Alice knows 
> that Gran is giving Neville some gum that's tainted, maybe it makes 
> him clumsy/forgetful. >>> 

I've tried to pin it on Gran, wondering if she were keeping everyone 
mute, so to speak, and I can't see it.  She really chastises Neville 
for being forgetful and clumsy.  And she's extremely proud of her 
son.  (Unless it's all a front?  An evil cover-up?  Is she a DE?  
etc...)
I've searched the environment of Mungo's, and can find no piped-in 
music, no smells, see no plates or cups.  The one notable thing about 
the environment is the bubbles that have the candles in them for 
light.  I also noticed that in the chapter right after the second 
Mungo's scene, within a few paragraphs, Sirius' gloom is infecting 
everyone in the house like a noxious gas seeping through the cracks 
into every room (paraphrased, don't have book handy).
I must admit I'm obsessive enough to have spent the past couple of 
weeks trying to determine what Drooble's Best Blowing Gum could read 
when anagramed.  It's entirely possible for it to reveal a lot -- or 
for it to be an opportunity for JK to say "gotcha!"  I believe that 
Luna's reading the runes upside down should lead us to closely 
examine the wrappers.  Unless there's something Alice has written on 
them (that we haven't seen) or something printed on there (that we 
haven't seen, then it's in Drooble's Best Blowing Gum.  Did JK 
deliberately call it "Drooble's Blowing Gum" in that scene to slow 
down any hopeful anagram sleuths?  Or did it simply lend itself 
better to the literary ear? 
I'm a SILK GOWNer all the way!

"hermionegallo"