Neville's Parents

[laurawkids]

No: HPFGUIDX 156659

> Laura with kids wrote in
> << Does anyone else want those gum wrappers that Neville's Mom
> gives him to be a clue to helping them get well? Or give some
> other Order members a message? <snip>>>
>
> Catlady (Rita) <catlady at ...>:
> Emerson and Melissa's interview with Rowling <snip> includes:
>
> <<MA: <snip> "What is the significance, if any of the gum wrappers
> that Mrs. Longbottom keeps giving Neville?"
> <snip>
> JKR: <snip> Neville gives his mother what she wants, and (it
> makes me sad to think of it) she wants to give something back
> to him, but what she gives back to him is essentially worthless.
> But he still takes it as worth something because she's trying to
> give, so it does mean something, in emotional terms. <snip> I
> mean she's not trying to pass him secret messages. <snip>

Laurawkids:    Duh!!!  Thanks.  I now realize that I have read that,
and should be ashamed.