Neville's Mum's brazilian (was Re: Droogles Gum anogram is hard work! Too ...)

Tim Regan timregan at microsoft.com
Fri Jul 11 21:38:38 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 69520

Hi All,

Following on from 
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/68794>

--- In HPforGrownups Cindy  wrote:
> I have been trying to 'discover' an anagram for 
> 'Droogles Best Blowing Gum' but it is prooving 
> to be quite difficult

Me too. I really thought I was on to something when I got:

"Tongs blubbered, I owl smog"

I.e. "Tonks is a spy, send an owl to Grimmauld Place" (smog = 
Grimmauld Place, since it's in a grim part of London, a city once 
famous for its smogs)

But then I realised that anagram contained a misspelling of Tonks' 
name, but anyway let's keep an eye on her.

Still, it got worse when I realised it also could be 

"Stubbled groin, ge owl smog"

which might indicate that Neville's mum wanted help on a personal 
depilation problem. So I agree: too many options.

But I did do a trawl through the books for the word "wrapper". Most 
of the occurrences don't look like foreshadowing (OK, they all 
don't). There are a few around Gred and Forge and the Ton-Tongue 
Toffee, and some random sounding ones when kids are eating sweets / 
candy. There are none in PS/SS or CoS.

But there maybe something odd about this line from PoA:

"Everyone stared at him. Professor Lupin crumpled up the empty 
chocolate wrapper and put it in his pocket."

Or maybe not.

Cheers,

Dumbledad.






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