Drooble's Best Blowing Gum Theory

[pickle_jimmy]

No: HPFGUIDX 70398

Pickle Jimmy wrote:
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" 
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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"


Richelle answered:
The readers (us) are the ones looking for anagrams, not Neville.  JKR 
has stated that she left clues in OoP for us.  IMHO, that's one.  
Sure, the Longbottoms didn't invent or name Drooble's Best Blowing 
Gum.  But JKR did.  The clue is not there for Neville to find, it's 
there for the readers.  My point (which apparently I didn't make too 
well) was that JKR may be pointing out the gum as the source of the 
Longbottoms continued insanity.  Seeing as we already know that 
Malfoy gives generous donations to St Mungos.  I'm not saying that 
all Drooble's Best Blowing Gum makes people insane.  Something could 
be slipped into theirs, it's not like that many people are there to 
see.  Even if the gum isn't the source of the problem, it could still 
be a clue for *readers.*  Not for Neville.  For readers.


Pickle Jimmy again:
So, what you are saying is that JK invented the name "Drooble's Best 
Blowing Gum" as an anagram of some secret message that has nothing to 
do with the plot of the story - and by this I mean that it will never 
come out in the book, it's just there for us (the reader) to work 
out. She thought there may be some child* out there reading her book 
who might re-arrange the letters of the gum's name to find a secret 
message that would reveal to them (the reader), some secret to the 
longbottoms plight. And, even though Mrs Longbottom doesn't know it, 
by giving these wrappers to her son, she is pointing out to us (the 
readers) that if we find the secret message in the gum's name, we'll 
understand what Neville has to do to help them?

*(I say child, because Droobles first appears in PS/SS and at that 
stage JK was writing a children's book with no idea of it's adult 
readership)

O...K...

I can't see it, but if I am wrong, I'll be the first to eat humble 
pie.

And... in the spirit of your search, let me supply a couple of 
anagrams that might help:

Droobles Best Blowing Gum = MUGGLES BLOOD IT BE'S BROWN 
Droobles Best Blowing Gum = TOWN BRIBES MUGGLES BLOOD 
Droobles Best Blowing Gum = ST MUNGO'S EGO DRIBBLE BOWL

Pickle Jimmy