Longbottom's Torture to Insanity (Re: candy)

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 109898

Bren wrote:
> > So if the droobles bubble gum wrapper *did* contain coded 
messages or provide some sort of communication method, Alice 
Longbottom could not have been *absolutley* insane and without 
mind?  Assuming it was out of her own motivation to pass it along to 
Neville, I doubt any clinically-insane permanently-lost-their-mind 
patients will be able to do that, not consciously anyway.
> > 

Kneasy:
> If Alice and Frank had been tortured to insanity it's unlikely 
that Alice would be able to construct a communication that would 
need one's full wits and mental faculties to visualise and 
comprehend. No, it's much simpler than that. She's trying to give 
Neville a clue, not a message. And it's urgent and important.
> 
> So if it's not the wrapper, what's left? The contents - the gum. 
Some believe that the Longbottoms are being secretly drugged. I  
don't go for  that either. The potions (ever seen a pill or tablet 
or an injectable in the WW?) come in the large economy size. If 
someone wanted to keep the Longbottoms quiet I doubt they'd fit the 
draft inside a piece of gum - and how would the Longbottoms know it 
was being done to them anyway? They wouldn't - not unless the person 
responsible surreptitiously doctored the gum at the bedside. Once, 
maybe. But for 12 years? Oh, look, a pinion-equipped porcine just 
flapped past.
>  
> What does Droobles do? It produces bubbles, spheres that remain 
stable for days. Spheres? What sort of clue is that? Where can we 
find spheres? In the Ministry, in the Dept. of Mysteries, of course.
 There's a fair chance that there is something in a prophecy globe 
that concerns Neville. Alice blows bubbles and they remind her and 
she's desperate to get the concept across to Neville. And I doubt 
that the globe is the same one as that Voldy was after. Mind you, it 
could be one of the two that were broken, the ones where we didn't 
quite hear the prophecies they contained. Wouldn't put it past JKR, 
being sneaky like that.
> 
> Kneasy


Valky:
Hoorah! 
Finally, a swift and deadly blow to the poison theory.
Well done Kneasy, but lay off the pigs a bit eh, they fly... they 
do....

I like the spheres theory a LOT! Although, I was among those 
kneedeep in so many letters of the alphabet trying to decode an 
anagram, I also posted in there somewhere that failing an anagram 
the clue must be the long lasting blue bubbles.

I focussed deeply on the *blue* part in preference to the *bubble* 
part and came up with nothing. 

I wonder now if the 'lasting for days' and 'blue' adjectives are of 
any help in uncovering a possible nature of this supposed prophecy 
that Alice is reminded of.