Drooble's, Neville's Gran, St. Mungo's

hermionegallo hermionegallo at yahoo.com
Thu Aug 28 14:08:10 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 79129

Bboy wrote, regarding the gum wrappers:

"This is a deliberate act on Mrs. Longbottom's part. But she is so 
limited in her abilities, so deep in the dense fog that surrounds 
her, that this is the best she can do to acknowledge that she knows 
who Neville is and that she cares for him very deeply. I think 
Neville understand this."

Bboy also speculated that if Alice had managed to scrawl a rune on 
the wrapper, Hermione would be able to interpret her message, having 
studied runes.  This was in reply to me pointing out that Luna is 
reading the Quibbler upside down on the train.

My response:

I agree that Neville feels that, no matter how "pointless" it is, 
it's still a gift.
What I was getting at with Luna deciphering the runes was that a) 
she's a Ravenclaw and b) she's suspicious and c) she "reads into" 
things and d) she's a decoder.  Since we have no way of knowing if 
Alice scribbled anything at all onto the wrappers, which I doubt, 
we have to go with what we know is on the wrappers, until JK tells us 
otherwise.

There are a lot of ways to anagram "Drooble's Best Blowing Gum..."

"hg"





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