Drooble's Best Blowing Gum Theory

pickle_jimmy kemp at arcom.com.au
Tue Jul 15 02:11:41 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 70356

OOP Snippet:
------------------------
Neville's mother had come edging down the ward in her nightdress. She 
no longer had the plump, happy-looking face Harry had seen in Moody's 
old photograph of the original Order of the Phoenix. Her face was 
thin and worn now, her eyes seemed overlarge and her hair,
which had turned white, was wispy and dead-looking. She did not seem 
to want to speak, or perhaps she was not able to, but she made timid 
motions towards Neville, holding something in her outstretched hand.
'Again?' said Mrs Longbottom, sounding slightly weary. 'Very well, 
Alice dear, very well - Neville, take it, whatever it is.'
But Neville had already stretched out his hand, into which his mother 
dropped an empty Drooble's Best Blowing Gum wrapper.
'Very nice, dear,' said Neville's grandmother in a falsely cheery 
voice, patting his mother on the shoulder.
But Neville said quietly, Thanks, Mum.'
His mother tottered away, back up the ward, humming to herself. 
Neville looked around at the others, his expression defiant, as 
though daring them to laugh, but Harry did not think he'd ever found 
anything less funny in his life.
'Well, we'd better get back,' sighed Mrs Longbottom, drawing on long 
green gloves. 'Very nice to have met you all. Neville, put that 
wrapper in the bin, she must have given you enough of them to paper 
your bedroom by now.'
------------------------

Now, I like most think that there is something more to this than 
meets the eye, but I am here to say IMHO it's not an anagram 
of "drooble's best blowing gum"

My reasoning behind this:

If I were in hospital, and not really sick, I just assumed that the 
people in the hospital were doing something to make me sick. There 
would have to be some *wild* coincidence occur for me to find a 
product who's name re-arranges into a sentence that fit's my exact 
predicement.

eg.
What I am trying to tell my son: THEY ARE POISONING ME
Anagrams for me to look out for:
   I'M A TOY SHOP ENGINEER  
   SOON EMERGE A TINY HIP
   MY ENERGIES IN A PHOTO

Mr & Mrs Longbottom didn't invent the gum while they were in St 
Mungo's. They didn't even get it re-named. What is the chance then 
that Mrs Longbottom (although she cant communicate in any other way) 
has had the brain capacity not only think of all the possible 
anagrams that fit her situation, but find then a matching anagramic 
product that she could hand her son each time he comes?? And, if this 
is the case, why didn't she use her smarts to escape instead of 
hatching such a conveluted plot in the hopes that neville would find 
that the name of the gum who's wrapper he has re-arranges to spell -
 "help, get us out of here, our nurse is working for voldemort"

My 2 Knut's worth

Pickle (still refining his Perseus Evans theory) Jimmy





More information about the HPforGrownups archive