# Little Things You Hope JK Rowling Will Clear Up In Book 7

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 20, 2005, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-you-hope-jk-rowling-will-clear-up-in-book-7/313276 "2005-07-20T12:21:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-you-hope-jk-rowling-will-clear-up-in-book-7/313276/81 "2005-07-28T02:05:16Z")

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> [@Hamish](#):
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> The Ministry comes to find Morfin and his wand – check the wand with Priori Incantatem – and Morfin confessing. No one looks deeper into the matter.

I’ve always wondered about this… wouldn’t knowing the last spell cast be useless if the murderer just used _Lumos_ or something after the spell?

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**Author:** ![Millit\_the\_Frail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Millit\_the\_Frail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Millit_the_Frail)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-you-hope-jk-rowling-will-clear-up-in-book-7/313276/82 "2005-07-28T04:15:53Z")

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> [@Hamish](#):
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> **Excalibre** is right – she confirmed there is no secret behind the gum wrappers in an interview posted yesterday at Mugglenet. It’s actually based on a true story – a woman with Alzheimers, giving her child candy wrappers – which she’d heard.

Noooo! Everybody knows that “Drooble’s Best Blowing Gum” is an anagram for “Gold Bribe Below St. Mungo’s!!”

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