Droobles from the Tower of London (was: candy)

[boyd_smythe]

No: HPFGUIDX 109867

> Terpnurse wrote:
> 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. <
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boyd:

My apologies in advance for the following addition to the increasingly 
over-debated topic of the significance of the Droobles wrappers.

If, as others have postulated, the Longbottoms are being given 
poisoned Droobles gum to keep them out of the picture or to keep their 
mouths shut, then I may have an alternative source of inspiration that 
may be a bit closer to home for the very British Ms. Rowling: the 
Tower of London.

Sir Thomas Overbury died in the Tower in 1613 after being poisoned for 
six months by arsenic, ground glass and mercury. And many other 
captives of the Tower sent messages to their loved ones, some of which 
have been postulated to contain secret messages. Put the two together 
and you get: the Longbottoms?

Not a believer, just an enabler.

--boyd
tangentially, anagrammed Neville = Le Elvin (clearly Neville is the 
half-elf HBP, and that wand is just getting in his way)