Slight-OT: Hogworts, Plus Dragon Blood (was: Wordplay...)

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No: HPFGUIDX 152715

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at ...> wrote:
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> Interestingly, there is a plant called "Dragon's Blood" -
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> http://botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/d/dragon20.html
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> Maybe the 12 uses of Dragon's Blood is not really the 12 uses of
> DRAGON's Blood.
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> Just passing it along.
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> Steve/bboyminn

Good spot! I followed the link and was very pleased to read...


'Dracaena Draco is a giant tree of the East Indies and Canary 
Islands, and shares with the baobab tree the distinction of being 
the oldest living representative of the vegetable kingdom, being 
much reverenced by the Guanches of the Canaries, who use its product 
for embalming in the fashion of the Egyptians. 

The trunk cracks and emits a red resin used as 'tear' Dragon's 
Blood, now rarely seen in commerce'

I think you may well be onto something here! 'oldest 
living.....embalming....Egyptians....trunk cracks.....tear' How like 
the necessaries for HRX creation I muse. One of those 12 uses of 
Dragon's Blood, the one DD might feel a tiny bit guilty about?

Wandering off into plant names 'Mimbulus Mimbletonia': 

Mimosa = aka the sensitive plant
Nimbus = aura

Mimbus = sensitive to auras


Things we know:

Neville was given the plant by Uncle Algie, it is rare.
Harry, Luna, Ginny and Neville were all blasted with stink sap from
the plant and Ron and Hermione were not.
Harry, Luna, Ginny and Neville all `hear voices' by the veiled
gateway whilst Ron and Hermione don`t.
The veiled gateway `kills' people, manner unspecified.
In the Potterverse it is possible to separate the soul from the body.
Ollivander did a bunk shortly after Neville visited his shop to buy
a new wand.
Ollivander had an old wand in display in his window.
Voldy likes to use the founder's items to make HRX.

Pure speculation:

Ollivander's display wand was Rowena Ravenclaw's and therefore is a
HRX contender.
Ollivander's departure was a direct result of Neville's visit.
Neville said or did something to precipitate this, perhaps show an
inconvenient interest in the display wand for example.
Harry, Luna, Ginny and Neville all heard voices at the veiled
gateway as a result of being stink sapped.
These are the voices of the dead, souls separated from the body
passing through the veil.
If Neville is sensitive to separated souls in the veiled gateway he
might also be sensitive to a bit of soul lurking in a HRX.
The locket mentioned in the clearout of Grimmauld Place is that of
Salazar Slytherin and also a HRX contender but the stink sapping
occurred after interaction with the locket and therefore could have
passed undetected.

Result:

Hooray! no need to randomly vandalise every ancient relic in the
magical world, simply wave suspect item at a `diviner' and quicker
that you can say CAT scan instant HRX detection.

Regards
Jo