[HPforGrownups] Spiders

[Barb P]

No: HPFGUIDX 43647


 --- In HPforGrownups at y..., Carol Bainbridge <kaityf at j...> wrote:
> As I was rereading book 1, I began thinking about the role of 
> spiders in the HP saga.  The first time they come up, it is in the 
> scene in Harry's cupboard when he is getting dressed and pulls a 
> spider off his sock.  At this point we learn that Harry is used to 
> spiders (unlike Ron).  
 
Yes, I believe that this is meant to place Harry in deliberate contrast to Ron.  In fact, Harry's whole life has been so horrible we learn in book 3 that what he fears most is--fear.  Which is perhaps why he's avoided it. ;)
 
> When Uncle Vernon visits Harry in the cupboard a little later, 
> some spiders end up dropping from the ceiling.  I've been just 
> thinking that last was a detail to create an atmosphere, but I 
> wonder now.  Does it seem to anyone else like they come up a lot?
 
> Spiders play a big role in book 2 
 
That was a natural side-effect of the basilisk being the co-villain with Tom Riddle and Lucius Malfoy in CoS, since "spiders flee before it."  (The basilisk.)
 
> and Moody uses spiders to illustrate the unforgivables in book 3.  
 
I think you meant to type 'book 4.'
 
> (I can't think of any spider incidents in book 3.)  
 
When they're learning to fight boggarts, Ron's boggart turns into a spider.  He's muttering something like "take its legs off," and later, that's just what happens, and the body goes rolling across the floor before the boggart changes shape again.

--Barb
 


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