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

[pickle_jimmy]

No: HPFGUIDX 70771

logic alley wrote:
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.
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Just some thoughts...
--- logic alley ---



The first time Droobles is mentioned:

  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.

1) Here in Australia we have both chewing gum and bubble gum, but I 
cant say that I found "Drooble's best blowing gum" any more odd 
than "Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans". Drooble - presumably 
invented a gum that was the "best" for "blowing" bubbles. In the same 
way that Bertie Bott invented beans that came in "every flavor". The 
fact that they appear next to the Chocolate frogs that turned out to 
be of relevance doesn't make them any more suspicious than Cauldron 
Cakes (which are at least as odd as best blowing gum)

2) Just because words like "St Mungos" or "Muggle Blood" *can* be 
formed by some of the letters, could that not just be coincidence?
 
Minerva McGonagall - has all the letters 
of "evil", "grimm", "lancing", "craving", "german", "rival" 
and "galleon" (just to name a few), should we read anything into this?

Just my thoughts

Pickle Jimmy