OOP in russian translation

[suehpfan]

No: HPFGUIDX 91725

snip of other gum wrapper posts:
> theories about the gum wrappers. 
> 1) Alice is giving them to Neville to reinforce the memory spell 
> inflicted upon him so he doesn't suffer so much from the memory of 
> his parents being tortured.
> 2) Alice gives him the wrappers hoping they break the memory spell 
> his grandmother is placing on him
> 3) Alice wants him to join them together and wrap them around his 
> head to protect his brain from alien voices... (ok, that's the 
> tortured to insanity version... hem hem)
> 
> Art

I like your idea about the wrappers being used to try to trigger 
something in Neville.  The only problem with the theories is with 
Alice Longbottom herself.  If she is lucid enough to give the gum 
wrappers then why isn't she lucid enough to tell Neville what she 
wants him to know?

I agree there is something about the gum wrappers, other than a plot 
device for getting Alice over to where HRH & G could see Neville's 
mother up close.  It is just the kind of thing JKR throws in.  I 
wonder though if it is something Alice is trying to remember that 
compells her to keep the wrappers and pass them to someone who she 
thinks might be able to help her instead of the other way around.

Since lovely Bella loves to taunt so much, maybe she will spill the 
beans about what happened that day 15 years ago and enlighten us on 
the importance of the gum wrappers.  As a side note, Bella's reaction 
to seeing Neville kind of dumps water on the whole "Neville was 
there" theory as she probably would have said something charming 
like "I haven't seen you since the day I spent with your parents" if 
she had seen him as a baby.

Hem hem...I like the alien version too.
Sue