Drooble's Best Blowing Gum Theory - a question for the English readers

[logic_alley]

No: HPFGUIDX 70763

> Pickle Jimmy (again):
> 
> Let me say (from the outset) that my initial post wasn't meant for 
> anyone inparticular - I was just stating my opinion, but Richelle 
has 
> picked it up and run with it. So, I am in no way targeting 
Richelle, 
> I just think we differ here in opinion.
> 
> On with the discussion:
> 
> Lupin - Wolf, Sirius - Dog, Pettigrew - Rat, SCABbers - betrayer, 
I'm 
> sure there are more.
> 
> Yes, some of the names of people are clues to who/what they are, 
but 
> I would argue that this is more to do with JK's clever way of 
> choosing names for characters (and her abilities in latin) than 
> trying to give away the plot (or even hints) to her readers - this 
> happens all the time in movies (eg in 'The Net', Angela is the 
> heroine, and Devilin is the bad guy)
> 
> As for the Mirror of Erised - this is fairly obvious, and didnt 
need 
> to be "driven home with the subtlety of a SledgeHammer" with Harry 
> saying "Oh, I get it, you just read the writing backwards".
> 
> But, when there is an obscure anagram used - Tom Marvolo Riddle = 
I 
> am Lord Voldemort - It is explained in the plot, (hands up who 
would 
> have strayed across it if it hadn't been).
> 
> Again, I don't think that "Drooble's Best Blowing Gum" is an 
anagram 
> of anything relevant. IMO (with emphasis on the *M*) I don't think 
> that it's the way JK works. 

To me, it is suspicious that the name of the gum is so odd.   So 
is "blowing gum" a normal way gum is referred to in England?   Here 
in the U.S. it would be chewing gum or bubble gum, not blowing gum.  
It sounds *close* but a bit off, and that makes me suspect she's set 
it up because she needs it to mean something else.

I also think it's suspicious that the first mention of Droobles is 
in the same scene as the Chocolate Frog clue about Nicolas Flamel, 
so she was already planting clues.   And 'St. Mungos', one of the 
key phrases that can be found in the Drooble's phrase, was mentioned 
in the same book, so she could have been planning it as early as 
then.

I have been wondering if the hidden message will be something other 
than a straight anagram -- maybe something we can't figure out 
yet.   Like we might need to know that if you look closely, the 
wrappers are torn in certain places.   Or there might be a spell 
that makes the significant words fly out and rearrange themselves.  

That wouldn't seem to be playing fair, but then there has been at 
least one other puzzle where JKR didn't play fair -- Snape's logic 
puzzle in SS/PS - which the reader can't figure out on their own 
because we don't have a picture showing where the bottles are.   

Just some thoughts...

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