OOP: Neville's Plant, Snape's Past, Dumbledore and aberforth, Young Death Eaters?

[theshef2002]

No: HPFGUIDX 64527

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Melanie Black 
<princessmelabela at y...> wrote:
> > Star Dreams wrote: 
> > 
> > First the password to the Gryffindor common room happens to be 
> > Mimbulus Mimbletonia for some unfathomable reason...but then the 
> next 
> > we hear of the plant is on the train ride away from Hogwarts. (Or 
> did 
> > I miss an instance in there?) What is the point of this rare yet 
> ugly 
> > plant? Or is this one of those threads that was faintly touched 
> upon 
> > in book 5 but will become more important in the final two books?

> > My reply:
> > When I first heard that it was the password I thought maybe they 
> chose that as the password so that this time Neville would actually 
> stand a chance at remembering it.  :)

What I want to know is... In previous books, the password changes 
periodically. In PoA it changed every day, but even in the other 
books it changed every month or so. WHy did it stay the same all 
througout this book? I always thought the changing passwords were 
very whimsical and a cute touch.

Shef