Question RE: new info from jkr.com

justcarol67 justcarol67 at yahoo.com
Wed Nov 3 01:52:22 UTC 2004


Yb's musings (all hyper from hot chocolate and Jo's revelation):
<snip> I'm more 
interested in "Spinners End" (a place, I'll bet mnoney on it!!) 
and "Draco's Detour." Oooh, I'm all a-quiver, won't be long now, 
chapter titles are usually the last things written, aren't they?
> 
Dudemom_2000:
<snip> If you look at the 
first three books Harry starts Hogwarts right around Chapter 6 so 
possibly Draco is not on the train but comes later and we find out 
why. I figure Spinners End is where Harry goes to right from the 
> > Dursleys. <snip>

Carol:
Chapter titles are not necessarily the last thing written. They could
have been the first if JKR outlines her chapters that way, and these
chapters are all from the first half, probably the first third, of the
book. I wouldn't get my hopes up just yet.

I agree that Spinners End is a street ("End" = cul de sac, as in Bag
End, right?), probably a street with shops where spinners (women with
distaffs or spinning wheels?) sold their thread in earlier times. Or
maybe thread is still spun there by some magical means. It could be
the street where the new Order headquarters are hidden, which fits
with your observation that it's where Harry goes when he leaves the
Dursleys in chapter 2.

As for Draco's detour, is he visiting Daddy in Azkaban?

Carol







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