OOP: Droobles Gum, Ritz Crackers & Memory

[lizcrosssmith]

No: HPFGUIDX 65830

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(When can we stop????)

I just did an archive search for "gum wrapper" & "Droobles". <-- See 
List Elves :-)

There are a number of people, in addition to myself, who have spent 
a little time considering the Droobles Best Blowing Gum issue.  As I 
cannot find any other post that brings up the Ritz connection . . .

. . .I think it's a huge hint.  The first time I read the section in 
OotP where Neville's mom gives him the gum wrapper, I immediately 
thought of that movie with Harrison Ford where he looses his memory 
and paints the pictures of Ritz cracker boxes.  The actual memory 
conection is that he used to meet his mistress at the Ritz Hotel.  I 
can't shake the feeling that the Droobles wrappers have 
significance.  I think they are more than just his mom giving him 
something to show her love.  If that was it, she would have given 
him everything from tissues to pocket lint over the years.  She 
hasn't done that.  She only gives him the gum wrappers.

On the subject of Neville's memory, his memory problems do seem 
somewhat remniscent of Bertha Jorkins'.  I think he may very well 
have had a very powerful Oblivious charm slapped on him when he was 
very young.  I also suspect someone at St. Mungo's is keeping the 
Longbottoms from more of a recovery.  Very likely the one who sent 
the Christmas gift of death to an enemy who was recovering.  Could 
it perhaps be the same person who was more than happy to give out 
the exact kind of scathing assessments of Harry Potter's sanity 
(sight unseen) that the Daily Prophet/MoM needed to discredit Harry?

All in all, I think we need to re-vist St. Mungos.  I think there is 
a whole lot more to be learned there.

Just my opinion, of course.

Liz