Troll's leg umbrella stand

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 111744

SSSusan wrote:
> Recent discussion of Tonks' clumsiness reminded me of the BIG DEAL
> that Galadriel Waters made of the troll's leg umbrella stand at 12
> Grimmauld Place (which Tonks tripped over) in her New Clues to HP 5
> book. I kept racking my brain, racking my brain.... WHAT could be
> significant about Tonks stumbling over a severed troll's leg 
> umbrella stand? WHY did GW go nuts about this thing being 
> mentioned a couple of times in the OotP chapter on GP?
> 
> So here's my question. Is **this** what GW was going off about? 
> Severed troll's leg umbrella stand = *SEVER*ed troll's leg 
> *U*mbrella *S*tand = SEVERUS. Is there supposed to be some clue 
> about Severus Snape in the troll's leg US?
 
vmonte responds:
> Hi Susan. I've never read Galadriel Waters (is that a real name?), 
> but I'm interested on your thoughts. Did GW mention anything else 
> about the umbrella stand? Or just that she thought it was a clue?
> Very curious -- Vivian

SSSusan:
Nope, that's the "problem" with GW's book.  There are just hints & 
clues that are, in turn, *hinted* at by GW to us!  After the first 
four books, GW put out a book which *discussed* the hints she [I 
think GW is a she??] found in books 1-4.  But with book 5, it's just 
the hints and no discussion/explanation.  [That's supposed to be 
coming in a future book.]

So, I'm afraid I have no answers nor even suggestions on how this 
would play out.  The SEVER-U-S thing just really hit me the last 
time I looked at it, and I wondered whether someone could tie 
together a link to Snape at either that place in the story or that 
place [Grimmauld] or from the fact that Tonks tripped on it.  

Surely *somebody* out there is super-creative/super-insightful and 
can see the "big clue" that's hidden there that I can't??

Siriusly Snapey Susan