candy

[kellymcj2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 109802

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dcgmck" <dolis5657 at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kellymcj2000" <kelly at p...> 
> wrote:
> > Hi all
> > 
> > So, what are the candy theories out there.  I tried using the 
> search 
> > thing and of course came up with nothing.  I have been very lazy 
> > regarding the whole candy theme and never really delved into it.  
> I'm 
> > hoping to just go with some theory already out there.  Well, if 
you 
> > can please let me know.  
> > 
> > thanks
> > kmcj
> 
> dcgmck:
> Starting weakly, I'd just like to toss out the thought that 
> Dumbledore's preference for muggle candies over WW candies seems as 
> signifcant as his desire for socks.  I think he's bound to Hogwarts 
> the way that house elves are bound to families but that he's a 
> different kind of elf with a muggle connection.  Maybe he was an 
> orphan raised by muggles or maybe he has muggle blood.  I like the 
> idea that he is a different kind of elf abandoned or intentionally 
> left at a muggle orphanage.  :->  Just messing around...

Thanks.  You know I'm here so infrequently I didn't even know about a 
Dumbledore bound to Howarts/muggles theory or of speculation 
regarding socks.  Actually, now you've said that, it reminds me of 
one fleeting thought I had about candy being a link to reality or the 
rest of the world, muggle world that is.  Maybe it was Alice 
Longbottom's droobles bubble gum that got me thinking along those 
lines.  Candy as a message to/from the muggle world?  

ANyhow, I'm always just amazed about how JKR goes on at length about 
sweets sometimes.  And Honeydukes!!!  Does she think kids obsess 
about candy all the time?  Wait, they do.  At least mine seem to.  
But teens ought to have grown out of that, right?  Well, regardless, 
I think it's a weird little sidetrack for her and I do wonder what 
we're supposed to make of it.  Maybe I'm just too suspicious and 
looking for things that aren't even there.  

kmcj