candy

[Steven Spencer]

No: HPFGUIDX 109840

kellymcj2000 wrote:

> 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.


I was actually thinking along the same lines myself. That candy could 
be communication tool. One way being the Chocolate Frog cards, with the 
pictures moving from one to another of the same person. But further, I 
think there might be communications within the gum wrappers. Many 
muggle brands of buble gum (as opposed to chewing gum) contain little 
riddles or jokes printed on them. Do we have any reason to believe that 
the same may not be true for Droobles Best Blowing Gum wrappers?

We know the French resistance cells during WWII relied heavily on coded 
messages and ingenious ways of communicating those messages. Could the 
gum wrappers be analogous to some of their methods? Along with that 
too, I think other ways and means of communique will crop up as the war 
progresses. The WWN will surely come into play, and we know more now 
about how wizarding print  media operates and how a well placed article 
can so dramatically turn the tide.

Terpnurse