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

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 79179

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "hermionegallo"
<hermionegallo at y...> wrote:
> Bboy wrote, regarding the gum wrappers:
> 
> 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:
> 
> 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.  

bboy_mn:

Now that you've pointed me directly at Luna, I suddenly like her as
the 'decoder'. I would seem that Hermione could easily miss the
obvious. It not that uncommon for any or all of us not to see what is
right in front of our face, but Lune looks at the world differently.
She tend to naturally see (and believe) things that other people
don't. So I could see Luna causally mentioning that the wrappers have
some significant Rune symbol on them, but doing it and saying it in an
off hand way as if it weren't significant at all; not much rattles
Luna. Once Luna pointed it out and Hermione realizes she is right,
they might start checking other wrappers for symbols. Of course, this
is all unfounded speculation, but I'm sure we all agree that something
is up with those gum wrappers.


> hermionegallo:
>
> 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"

bboy_mn:

Yes I agree, we don't know that anything is on the wrappers, but we
suspect very strongly that something is up with the wrappers, and the
best we can do is speculate as to what that might be.

As far as the anagram, JKR could have dropped some small hint for the
readers in an anagram, but there is no way that anagram could ever
become part of the story. It's a nice excersize for the reader, but I
doubt that one day Hermione is going to look at the wrapper and say,
"Oh, now I get it, 'Drooble's Best Blowing Gum' is really '/whatever,
whatever, whatever/'".

I think the top two theories right now are that a.) they will somehow
detect a poison or drug on the wrappers or b.) there is a secret
message written on the wrappers. Other than those two I have trouble
coming up with other possibilities, but I'm open to suggestions.

Just a thought.

bboy_mn