[HPforGrownups] Re: Droobles' Anagram (Yet Again) -- GOLD BRIBE

[Iggy McSnurd]

No: HPFGUIDX 83931

> TK -- Tigerpatronus:
>
> The anagrams are fun, though, both as a possible actual clue but also
> as an insight into our own paranoid minds ("It was in capital
> letters! It sounds odd! It must *mean* something!). I'm also inclined
> to think that JKR won't do something as cheesy as an anagram twice.

Iggy here:

Here's a fun concept for all of you to play with... and it relates to the
anagrams concept.

Sometimes, as in this case, the study of the Anagrams may end up yielding
similar results to those of Numerology.  It's a form of divination that can
yield interesting, and sometimes amazingly accurate, results.  While the
origination of the phrase, name, etc may not be intentional, the result can
actually reveal something about the source.

In other words, while JKR may or may not be using anagrams as clues, the
study of them can have the potential to still reveal something about the
surrounding plot.

While the anagram of "Tom Marvolo Riddle" converting to "I am Lord
Voldemort" may be intentional, and the "Drooble's Best Blowing Gum"
converting to "GOLD BRIBE BELOW ST. MUNGO'S " may not be, both can have the
potential to reveal something about the surrounding circumstances.  Even if
the latter anagram is unintentional on the part of JKR, if we find out in
book 6 that someone has been bribing some of the staff of St. Mungo's to
keep certain people incapacitated, or eliminate some who are recovering...
then intentional or not, the anagram has revealed something about the plot
surrounding the gum being given to the Longbottom's.

To be honest, I would not be surprised if Trelawny planned on teaching
something like this eventually as a form of divination becaue, if I recall
correctly, it *is* considered to be one.


Iggy McSnurd
(Who DOES realize that he sounds like he could be Trelawney's cousin in this
letter...)