Alice Longbottom

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 102396

> Moonmyyst wrote:
> The first time I read this scene, I took the whole thing at face 
value.  On the outside, it looks like a poor, pitiful woman trying 
to give away pieces of paper.  We see this and things similar in the 
mentally ill and feeble all the time.  
> 
> But is it?  Could this be signs of Alice trying to come out of her 
stupor?  Could she be trying to communicate with her son?  Is there 
anything on the papers?  Could she have recovered that far?  Does 
she know of a danger to her son that is helping her to fight to 
regain her right mind in order to warn him?  We had to have seen 
that scene for a reason.  We could have just seen the two of them 
leaving, maybe even with his mother looking out, but to add in the 
giving of the wrapper.  It just feels..... I don't know.... like 
there is more to it than meets the eye. >>>


Valky:
I am sorry you haven't been able to find the lengthy discussion that 
I recall we had on this subject last year here at HPFGU, perhaps we 
should have someone make the message files of the time immediately 
after the release of OOTP more readily available to us here and now. 
(** List Elves ** What do you think?) Lately I have come across a 
lot of posts that refer to things we discussed then and I would like 
very much to reveiw the posts myself just that it takes a week to 
back browser through the enormous volume of posts since to those 
ones.

As to your question many of those participating in that discussion 
argeed with you that it seemed very much like she was attempting to 
communcate something to him and some of us even set about trying to 
decipher what that message was.

One of the things we did you may be familiar with from HP fan sites, 
or you may not. And that is it attempt to unravel an anagram from 
the words "Droobles Best Blowing Gum".

We also investigated canon on Droobles Gum and St Mungos because St 
Mungos is a *partial* anagram for Droobles Best Blowing Gum. 

I am glad to still see interest in this question and I hope you turn 
up something new for us.
Happy trails to you Moonmyyst.