What we find there (was: How to Get Through the Door)--SPOILERS!!!

[dungrollin]

No: HPFGUIDX 116859


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "templar1112002" 
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> > So the three chapters are:
> > Spinners End
> > Draco's Detour
> > Felix Felicis
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> > 1) Spinners End sounds like a *place* to me.  Harry's shortest 
> stay 
> > ever on Privet Drive, anyone?
> > 2) Draco's detour to visit daddy in Azkaban, perhaps?
> > 3) Given how lion-like the previous description was that JKR 
gave 
> us, 
> > and Felix the Cat, FELine, etc., how 'bout Felix Felicis for the 
> new 
> > DADA professor?  But chapter 14?  Would it really be FOURTEEN 
> > chapters before we even meet the new DADA prof?  Jeepers, I hope 
> not, 
> > as we'd probably be looking at a 50-chapter book, and then we'll 
> > NEVER get it!
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> ********To me, Spinners End sounds more like the chapter in which 
> Cornelius Fudge finally makes a public display of 'foot-in-mouth 
> disease'...  What has the Ministry been doing lately, even after 
> they went public on Lord Thingy's return?  They have 
> been 'spinning' the news, trying to look good even though they 
> were in bad shape... 
> Jo told us that Fudge will be replaced, she was very sure of it 
> ages ago, like she had written that chapter, proofed-read it and 
> given it the 'OK, to go' green light... Yes, I wouldn't be 
> surprised if Spinners End chapter is when we see Fudge (and maybe 
> Percy?) spinning out of the Ministry, in a manner of speaking.

Dungrollin:

If it's about Fudge and Percy, it would have to have an apostrophe 
after the last s.

Sounds like a place to me too.  A village, or a house...
But who on earth would live there?  We don't know any Ariadnes, or 
Arachnuses, a Mme Araignée, Frau Spinne, Signor Ragno, or
Señora Araña, do we? Hmmm. I'm sure I had a Gaelic dictionary
somewhere...  Could be Madame Malkin, I suppose.  

> As for Felix Felicis, those are latin terms related to 'happy' not 
> cats.  Like you, I first thought that it could very well be the 
> name for the new DADA teacher, but chapter 14 is much too late to 
> introduce a new teacher, unless Book 6 has the longest Summer 
> break in all the HP books... I guess anything could be plausible, 
> even that Felix is the half blood prince, but we'll just have to 
> wait...
>   
> Marcela

Dungrollin:

Actually in GoF 'Mad-eye Moody' was chapter 13, in Ootp 'Professor 
Umbridge' was chapter 12, (in Cos, chapter 6 was 'Gilderoy 
Lockhart', and PS and PoA don't have chapters named after the DADA 
teachers, though that could be a result of editing).

And if Harry's got his shortest stay ever in Privet Drive, we've got 
over a month of summer holidays to get through before he goes back 
to Hogwarts.

The name (if name it is) could also be translated 'Lucky the Lucky'; 
(a lucky man; luckier than lucky; luckier than lucky Jack McLucky, 
winner of last year's Mr. Lucky competition...) and if he *is* the 
DADA teacher, could this be the chap to break the jinx, and last two 
years?  

Ponder ponder ponder...
Dungrollin