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

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No: HPFGUIDX 116861


SSSusan wrote:
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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!

 
Marcela replied: 
> 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.


SSSusan:
I agree that that would certainly fit...and I like it...but for lack 
of an apostophe.  Granted, an apostrophe after the R or the final S 
could also make sense in a place name such as I suggested, but it's 
*definitely* required if one is talking about a spinner's (or 
spinners') demise.  So I'm not sure how to work around that....


Marcela:
> 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...

SSSusan:
Right.  I understand that the reference likely is to "lucky," but 
there also could be more than ONE play on words -- hence, my 
mentioning Felix the Cat and the common first three letters 
with "feline."  JKR is known to use existing terminology or cultural 
references *and* to kind of invent her own play on words as well.  

The reference to "lucky" would be interesting if, indeed, Felix 
Felicis is the new DADA instructor, since we've seen this position as 
jinxed or UNlucky since Book 1.

But Chapter 14 to meet our DADA instructor....  What *could* that 
mean is happening before the school year starts?!?

Siriusly Snapey Susan