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

[sueeeyqbong]

No: HPFGUIDX 70846

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "logic_alley" 
<logic_alley at y...> wrote:
<BIG SNIP> 
> 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...
> 
> --- logic alley ---

Now me : (Sueeeyqbong)
These are some great ideas...I LOVE the torn wrapper / hidden detail 
possibility. It would make a great scene visually to have the trio 
and Neville realising that the wrappers might be significant, asking 
Neville to show them to them, and Neville opens up a HUGE trunk full 
of bubble gum wrappers, saved up over the years. And incredibly 
poignant. 
And, in answer to your 'question for the brits'...I'm a londoner, 
and I've never ever heard of 'blowing gum'. Bubble gum and chewing 
gum yes...blowing gum never. Though that could just be JKR making 
the wizarding world equivalent sound endearingly strange, I suppose, 
so doesn't necessarily mean that the 'blowing gum' name per se is 
significant.
Just my thoughts.

Sue