[HPforGrownups] What were the biggest hidden clues in OoP?

[Kimberly]

No: HPFGUIDX 96324




>2. Neville's parents in St. Mungos are trying to get a message to 
>Neville using the gum wrappers (my guess)


>Kristen

*Kimberly's comments*
This was such an odd thing for JKR to throw into the mix that I remain completely undecided about it.    Part of me feels it was too bizarre not to have some sort of meaning.   Apparently, she has given him quite a few of these wrappers that Gran Longbottom shrugs off as inconsequential.   Now, if this were the case, it would seem to me, Neville wouldn't be so eager (OotP, pg. 514,  "But Neville had already stretched out his hand, into which his mother dropped an empty Droobles, etc.") nor would she give him so many (OotP, pg. 515, "...she must have given you enough of them to paper your bedroom by now....") nor would he keep it without her knowing (OotP, pg. 515 "But as they left, Harry was sure he saw Neville slip the wrapper into his pocket."   Certainly makes me feel there's more to the wrappers than nothing.    

But then the other part of me thinks it was in there simply to convey to us the extreme severity of her condition.   Kind of like giving us a first hand glance at what became of the Longbottoms.     

Kimberly




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