[the_old_crowd] Product of insomnia or Mimbulus Mimbletonia

[silmariel]

<don't snipping because it's been ages>

It rains. Must celebrate it, being so unfrequent here.

No... it is insomnia, I wrote this last night.

Jo:
> Mimbulus Mimbletonia: what's in a name?
>
> 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.

Would it be out of another world that he hasn't catched the clue, or he didn't 
bother to explain, in case of being paired with Luna? He says the plant has 
interesting qualities, maybe his uncle told him.

I mean. The plant is Assyrian, I think, and last time I checked that was part 
of the Mediterranean (correct me otherwise, please, I did an internet search, 
but having taken no ancient studies, I really have no idea).  His book can be 
helpful...

> 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.

Hum. Interesting, gives Neville something to do. I've been thinking recently 
-apropos of, guess, Snape- in the way Draco and Harry are mirrors, and 
Neville falls sort. For being the second prophecy child, he seems almost 
nonexistant, compared to Draco. No one knows what is Luna about, but 
Neville's story is tied from birth with Harry and it's no great jump of faith 
to expect some kind of tie-up for him, I think. Revenge on Bella being a bit 
obvious.

I mean (again) we have Snape-Draco and DD-Harry, but they also were deprived 
at the same time of his father figure (godfather in the case of Harry), in 
the DoM battle, both lost it. And both have had an (unrequited or not) 
'affair' with Mirtle.

And Neville?

Hermione is the thinker, Ginny is the warrior (oh, well, don't look at actual 
fight records but on what she's supposed to represent as a gifted hexer witch 
and quidditch heart of the team), Luna is the mystic. I don't have it so 
clear, with the boys. Because, if Ron is the thinker - the strategist -, 
thinkers were left out of the 'voices'.

As I stated offlist, Neville and Luna (under a tree by the main characters 
endogamia rule?) appeared to be in the fridge for most of HBP to be 
microowened in an instant when required. Maybe because they are the mystic 
part, so appearances are brief, at least clearly not required by HBP.

I guess it's time to shut up, I've written all the incoherences required

Silmariel,
petting her Numptie and wondering about Binns