candy

[kellymcj2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 109828

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Josh Warren" 
<wjwarren4269 at c...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kellymcj2000" <kelly at p...> 
> wrote:
> > 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.  
> 
> I'm going to throw a big 10-4 there. :) Dumbledore is always going 
> off on little tracks of seeming senility. Hooch's earmuffs, 
> lemondrops, candy passwords, socks, Oddment! Tweak!, the joy of a 
> room full of chamberpots, etc. :) Except for the last foreshowing 
the 
> RoR, I don't think any of this says anything about Dumbledore other 
> than his love for the common everyday. 
> 
> While we all have responsibilities in life, and in the books, DD 
has 
> more than most, it is important to enjoy the little things in life. 
> However, it would be nice for DD to explain that once before the 
> series wraps up.
> 
> Josh


Well, while acknowledging that it may well mean nothing, to which you 
have just agreed, let me throw in this one last thought.

I'd actually not been referring to Dumbledore specifically but rather 
to the candy throughout the series.  It starts right away in the 
first book even before Harry knows he's a wizard and just keeps going 
and going.  Sweets on the train, everyone sends piles of candy when 
he's in the infirmary, Honeydukes, descriptions of candy and sweets 
throughout all the books.  

And then, the gum wrappers Alice L. gives Neville.  That's another, 
maybe the biggest thing, that made me start thinking about candy as 
some sort of, well something.  And of course Fred and George are 
continually disguising magic within candy or some sort of sweet.  

My first guess is candy as some sort of link to non-magical things or 
as some sort of communication tool.  I hadn't really considered 
Dumbledore and sweets specifically.  

Well, that's all.  And maybe it's nothing. :)

kmcj