Droobles' Anagram (Yet Again) -- GOLD BRIBE

[Berit Jakobsen]

No: HPFGUIDX 83905

 
> <pennygbrooks at y...> wrote:
> > 
> > Back to me again...<SNIP> I > still can't help thinking that the 
> wrapper means something.
 
> TK - Tigerpatronus wrote:

> Was flipping around MuggleNet the other day, bored at work, when I 
> noticed they had posted the anagram GOLD BRIBE BELOW ST. MUNGO'S 
for 
> the DROOBLE'S BEST BLOWING GUM mystery. There were other 
speculations 
> about "bridges" previously on these boards that didn't quite fit, 
but 
> this one does. 

Me:

I agree with pennygbrooks; I can't help thinking the wrapper means 
something.

I really don't believe in all these anagrams all over the place 
though. As far as I know, we only know of one anagram in the HP 
books; that of Tom Marvolo Riddle/I Am Lord Voldemort. I just don't 
believe Rowling litters her books with hidden anagrams and intricate 
patterns in the text on every other page as "clues". There certainly 
are clues, but in a different way (I think). People looking for 
anagrams everywhere have too much time on their hands .-)

-The clues being in the text and the story for everyone to see: Like 
Neville pocketing the wrapper, not throwing it away; the fact that 
his mother has been giving him so many of them over the years he can 
paper his whole bedroom with them by now... Of course, it could only 
be Rowling's way of telling us just how mad Neville's mother is. Or 
it could be Neville's mother trying to get through to Neville in her 
own limited way, trying to tell him something important. Match this 
with Neville's interest in Herbology and his new pet plant (which 
might prove to be more useful than Trevor the toad). I can very well 
see Neville discovering some cure for his parents, giving them their 
minds back... I hope :-)

Berit