[HPforGrownups] Re: Gum Wrappers

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 112922

> At any rate, I find the scene very touching, especially Neville's
> gesture of putting the gum wrapper in his pocket as if to say that
> it
> isn't worthless; it's a gift from his mother. We're meant to
> sympathize with Neville and to understand him a little bit, as
> Harry
> begins to do in that scene. Harry pities him and sees that in some
> ways Neville is worse off than he is. I for one hope that Harry
> will
> develop more respect for Neville, even possibly a real friendship.
> certainly Neville deserves that after the DoM.
> 
> Carol, who thinks that any message in the gum wrappers would ruin
> the most emotionally powerful moment in the series so far


Dreading the wrath of the list because I just want to say I so agree
with this.  Neville stepped onto the stage in a big way in OOTP and
this touching moment is seared into every reader's mind.

I would regard it as a major betrayal if JKR uses the gumwrappers as
some way of communication.

Magda
> 



		
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