Droobles Blowing Gum Mystery
Susan Smith
atroposgryffin at yahoo.com
Sun Jul 13 17:07:46 UTC 2003
No: HPFGUIDX 69904
I have read alot of posts which are trying to Anagram Droogles Best
Blowing Gum. Just wanted to take a moment to point out that it is
Droobles with a "B" and no "G" to be found. So that definitely rules
out using any words with 2 "G"s, like muggle.
Also, I do not see the word "best" on pg 514-515 of OOP where it
discusses the gum wrapper situation, we see Droobles Blowing Gum as
the name. Does "best" show up later in a discussion of the wrapper?
Can someone point me to the canon?
Finally, I agree with the posts which say it would be cliche for JKR
to pull the anagram stunt again-so I do not buy into the gum anagram
and the Severus Snape/Perseus Evans anagram.
However, I had a thought playing the game, "You Don't Know Jack".
What if it is NOT an anagram, but a "Gibberish Question" - what if
the wrapper name only "SOUNDS" like something else? For example
Drooble's (Trouble's) Blowing (Growing) Gum (Son)? Well I don't know.
But, it could involve the plant issue-Neville's own plant and the
mysterious plant on the St. Mungo's ward which killed.
But, I am fairly confident the wrapper is important and not a red
herring, things about JKR's writing style make me feel this is a clue:
-the famous "trio" were witnesses; (usually that is important)
-the scene prematurely ended when Gran Longbottom choosing to leave
(when JKR provides distraction or interruption she is usually hiding
something);
-Neville takes the "cherished" item home where he has so many others,
he could paper his room with them-JKR when she reinforces something,
it becomes important
-Neville took the wrapper, and then "looked around at the others, his
expresion defiant, as though daring them to laugh." We are really
starting to see a newer, braver Neville. JKR is starting to really
fill-in his character. No red herring, this wrapper. What does
everyone else think?
Atropos G.
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