The last time I saw GOVERNMENTIUM was on a mimeographed piece of paper in my first year of work for the government. After that, I was one of the components...
(an excellent actor and a gentleman. He will be missed)
"The first question Snape asks Harry is, "Tell me, what would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?" It seems innocuous enough, but Tumblr user tomhiddles explains it actually has a secret meaning:
According to Victorian Flower Language, asphodel is a type of lily meaning My regrets follow you to the grave and wormwood means absence and also typically symbolized bitter sorrow. If you combined that, it meant I bitterly regret Lilys death."
There is an internet world out there that picks at any detail no matter how small and makes it into a giant mountain of conspiracy or theory. They keep poking and prodding J.K Rowling for all sorts of details that used to live in the imagination of people who read the books.
Viewers just finished watching the last episode of AMERICAN HORROR STORY--HOTEL and within minutes there was speculation about how all the AHS season fit together. This is like trying to psychoanalyze HAMLET which (as we all know) is a fruitless task.
However, I always thought there were hints at the other books in "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" because that's what JK Rowling does. Se drops hints about the later books and situations all through the severn volumes.
In her book THE CUCKOO'S CALLING, the murderer is revealed in the first chapter. She's that subtle. She's done that in her later books, too. She even does it in the Cormoran Strike books under the pen name of Robert Galbraith.
