Names of St Mungo's wards/SILK GOWNS clue ?/Dumbledore !

[maneelyfh]

No: HPFGUIDX 82296

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "a_reader2003" 
<carolynwhite2 at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "maneelyfh" <maneelyfh at y...> 
> wrote:
> > SNIP
> > > The other thought was that it was meant to be a simple play on 
> > sounds 
> > > and meanings, which JKR likes to do, with 'Thickey' = stupid, 
and 
> > > perhaps Janus = the 2-faced Roman god ? (Not sure about this, 
no 
> > > doubt someone will correct me..) The message being that people 
in 
> > > this ward got spell damage because they made some stupid 
decision 
> > > about something, and also possibly because they behaved in an 
> > > underhand way. 
> > > 
> > > However, although that might definitely apply to Lockhart, and 
> > > possibly Bode and Agnes to some extent, it doesn't fit so well 
> with 
> > > the Longbottoms, from what we know about what happened to them 
so 
> > > far. Maybe they did make some kind of stupid decision, which 
lead 
> > to 
> > > them being caught and tortured ?
> > > 
> > > Carolyn
> > > (who has several cats with lethifold tendencies..)
> > 
> > OR....Thick can mean slow, so the people in the ward as mentally 
> slow 
> > or disabled because of spell damage and they are kept that way by 
> > underhanded means....
> > 
> > Also on a side note.... does anyone think that row 97 where the 
> > prophecy resided concurs with the year 1997? And the prophecy 
will 
> > come about during that year?  I did not come up with this but 
agee 
> > with it and think that the deception surrounding the Longbottoms 
> stay 
> > in St. Muungo's will be resoved in book 6.  Any takers on this?
> > Fran
> > who is just dying, DYING to know when book 6 is coming out...
> 
> Carolyn (after lunch....)
> As a former innocent, sadly corrupted by MD theories, Kneasy et al, 
I 
> think you are too right, and this is all part of THE PLAN.  
[However, 
> I think 1997 is Book 7, not Book 6 - even more important for the 
> prophecy to come true at the end of the series]. Its no coincidence 
> that gum is a sort of sweet, and DD is a keen fan of all sorts of 
> sweets, and probably highly knowledgeable of what goes into them, 
and 
> their effects.
> 
Actually I meant 1997 is book 7 and book 6 is where we will  
hopefully see resolution to the Longbottoms. I however think the 
Longbottoms are being kept in their current state by LV and the DE's 
not DD. 

We have also seen throught the series, characters given sweets to 
shut them up.  DD offered McGonagal a lemon drop in PS/SS so she 
would stop talking about LV's demise and the Potter's death. In OOP 
she pushes Ginger Newts on Harry to fill his mouth so he will stop 
talking and listen. That gives more canon maybe to the Longbottoms 
chewing so much Droobles...they have their mouth full so they cannot 
speak.  Plus it is full of mind numbing potion put their by someone 
wanting to keep them quiet.
Fran
Fran