[HPforGrownups] Re: Great Uncle Algie

[Suzanne Chiles]

No: HPFGUIDX 90392

AF,

I think your post is spot-on. I remember when I was very young, my mother
was hospitalized for nervous problems due to extreme stress. When I visited
her, she gave me a yarn octopus that she must have made in art therapy. I
still have that octopus, nearly 40 years later.

Suzanne
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "armadillof" <armadillof at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 9:52 AM
Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: Great Uncle Algie


>
> >
> > Julie -- who really really really wants to know what is up with
> the
> > gum wrappers!
>
>
>     I just thought JK was making a point of Neville's psyche and how
> sad his life has been.  I don't think there's much to the gum
> wrappers otherwise, I mean Neville's parents are certifiably
> insane.  If you've ever been in contact with people who have lost
> their minds due to alzheimer's, strokes, or other degenerative
> neurological diseases, that type of act (giving someone something
> relatively 'useless') is often commonplace. I just thought it had
> personal meaning to Neville b/c it was likely one of the only things
> or types of things his parents gave him that is tangible.
>
> AF