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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