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

[arcum42]

No: HPFGUIDX 71070

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sueeeyqbong" <sue at s...> wrote:

> 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.

OTOH, JKR tends to make wizarding snacks do things normal food
couldn't.  Blowing gum could possibly "blow" things up, either as
Harry did with Aunt Marge, or just by exploding. If Alice has been
stockpiling the gum, she could potentially escape from St Mungos,
either by blowing up a wall, or blowing herself up and floating
through a window...
--Arcum