Droobles Blowing Gum Mystery

[Liz]

No: HPFGUIDX 69913

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Susan Smith" 
<atroposgryffin at y...> wrote:
<<snip>>
> 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? 
>

It's in SS when Harry is on the Hogwarts Express and the snack cart 
comes around:

"He had never had any money for candy with the Dursleys, and now 
that he had pockets rattling with gold and silver he was ready to 
buy as many Mars Bars as he could carry -- but the woman didn't have 
Mars Bars.  What she did have were Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, 
Drooble's Best Blowing Gum, Chocolate Frogs, Pumpkin Pasties, 
Cauldron Cakes, Licorice Wands, and a number of other strange things 
Harry had never seen in his life."
                                 Chapter Six  -- The Journey From 
Platform Nine and Three-Quarters

 <<snip>>
>> 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.

I agree.  As I've written before, it smacks too much of the Ritz 
Crackers in that Harrison Ford film, Regarding Henry.

Liz C-S