[HPforGrownups] OOP: Droobles Gum, Ritz Crackers & Memory

[RSFJenny19 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 65854

In a message dated 6/29/2003 7:20:16 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
lizcrosssmith at yahoo.com writes:


> 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?
> 
> 

Liz,
I have to say that my jaw dropped when I reached the end of your post.  You 
didn't actually connect these two things in your post, but what you wrote made 
me definitely believe in a connection.  Perhaps someone is keeping the 
Longbottoms from recovering, and whatever it is, is in the Droobles gum wrappers!!  
Wow, my mind is spinning right now, because I, too, believe that there's 
somethig highly significant about the gum wrappers and this just seems to be 
plausible.

What a great post!!!  

~Jenny


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