Troll's leg umbrella stand

[amanitamuscaria1]

No: HPFGUIDX 111777

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "littleleahstill" 
<cmjohnstone at h...> wrote:
> 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?
> 
> Leah replies:
> 
<snip>
  Any more ideas?
> 
> Leah

AmanitaMuscaria now -
One thing that occurred to me was the coincidence of the severed 
troll's leg, and the severed house-elves' heads - maybe there's some 
use that the Ancient House of Black made of trolls?
The other thing is, why have an umbrella stand there at all? what's 
it supposed to hold? Broomsticks? I can't see the sort of people 
who'd turn up to visit the Black household arriving disguised as 
muggles with umbrellas in hand, and there was no mention of anyone 
placing their broomsticks in the stand when Harry arrived there? If 
that was its intended use, I would imagine Molly would make sure they 
used it as such.
Cheers. AmanitaMuscaria