OOP: What's different

[Mimi Barker]

No: HPFGUIDX 64327

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ladyofmisrule2000" 
<lorischmidt1 at j...> wrote:
> >>Jennifer wrote: 
> 
> >>...the password just "happened" to be mimbulus mimbletonia right 
at 
> >>the time Neville returns to Hogwarts with the cactus of the same 
> >>name. I wonder what JKR has up her sleeve with this?
> 
> Welcome, Jennifer!
>  
> I have a theory on this. I believe Percy gave the younger students 
> the password when he was a prefect, so perhaps Ron or--more likely--
> Hermione made mimbulus mimbletonia the password this time in an 
> effort to make things easier on Neville. 
> 
> Hope I'm not too off base with this!
> 
> Lori

Except that Ron and Hermione were not present when Neville was 
talking about and naming his plant. It's really rare, the greenhouses 
at Hogwarts don't have one, so they wouldn't know what it is. The 
passwords in previous books are sometimes clues about the events of 
that book. Has anyone analyzed the words "mimbulus mimbletonia" to 
give us further insight?