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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