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

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So the three chapters are:
Ch 2: Spinners End
Ch 6: Draco's Detour
Ch 14: Felix Felicis


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) <snip> 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:
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... 
<snip><<<

Stefanie:
I agree with SSSusan on this one..."Spinners End" contains no 
apostrophes in "Spinners" so it's not referring to the end of the 
spinner or the end which belongs to the spinners or any such 
deviation of that.

Felix Felicis can definitely be the DADA teacher...we get the 
chapter entitled "Professor Umbridge" at Ch. 12 in OotP, and "Mad 
Eye Moody" at Ch. 13 in GoF.

Perhaps this all does fit in with Harry's shortest stay at Privet 
Drive (and maybe consequently his most eventful summer to date). We 
have JKR's comment on "[t]he next book, Half Blood Prince, [having] 
the least that [we] see of the Dursleys. [We] see them quite 
briefly." (EBF) The Dursleys generally feature from 2-3 chapters in 
each book so far. If this is his shortest stay ever, it makes a bit 
of sense that they'd only be in the book for one.

SO -- also keeping in step with the general formula of the books, it 
in GOF and OOTP, it was two chapters from the arrival of the kids at 
Hogwarts and the chapter titled with the DADA teacher's name (Only 
one in CoS, and there is no chapter named "Professor Quirrell". 
There also is no "Professor Lupin", but he's the only one we meet 
before school starts anyway, and there's two chapters between the 
arrival at school and the first DADA class) From this, we can make 
an educated assumption that "Draco's Detour" is during the summer 
break. I like SSSusan's theory for that, also...but who knows what 
JKR has up her sleeve. It would be interesting to see Draco pop out 
a third dimension, you know?

Heck, I wouldnt' care if we were introduced to the DADA teacher in 
ch 30! More Book = More Goodness to me! Xo) But aside from that, 
Felix being the DADA teacher isn't farfetched by his chapter being 
the fourteenth. Sounds like a happy guy, eh?

Stefanie, who is so giddy, she now wants to dress up as JKR for 
Hallowe'en (instead of Madame Rosmerta Xo) )