[HPforGrownups] Re: Garden Gnomes

[Annette Hamel]

No: HPFGUIDX 60335

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Annette Hamel"
<annettehamel at h...> wrote:
 > ... (on the topic of "deeper significance") - do you suppose there's
 > anything more to the "de-gnoming the garden at the Burrow" scene other
 > than comic value?  Gnomes are a species that haven't been discussed in
 > the books before  or since that scene, if I remember rightly.
 >
 > Annette

bboy_mn wrote:
<<<snippage>>
<<<Overal, gnomes don't seem to be given much intelligence and they don't
seem especially magical. They seem somewhat like fairies, vaguely
humanoid, but generally of animal like intelligence; like very ugly
kittens.
So, no, I don't think they are going to be big players in the overall
story.
Just a thought.
bboy_mn>>>

To which I reply:
I was just pondering the fact that they (a) were disgruntled when they left 
the Burrow, and (b) one of the Weasley brothers commented that the gnomes 
would come back (and I think they were already sneaking back in during that 
scene).  So it's a question of, would JKR give the Weasleys a "garden gnome 
problem" just for the comic value of showing us what the chores might be 
like at a wizarding house, or, was she making the gnomes a part of the 
Burrow environment for a specific reason?  But as I said myself, sometimes 
we have to take things at face value.  I mean, look at the Mandrake roots - 
did they have humanoid features for any other reason than to make us laugh?  
:)

As for the gnome problem ... if a garden pest kept coming back, I'd hire a 
good exterminator :)  Or maybe Hagrid will take them ...

Annette
=^..^=
Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.

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