Foreshadowing in OOTP for Snape the Spider...

[vmonte]

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>From 7/19/05:
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vmonte:
OotP, Ch. 6:
"They found an unpleasant-looking silver instrument, something like a 
many -legged pair of tweezers, which scuttled up Harry's arm like a 
spider when he picked it up, and attempted to puncture his skin; 
Sirius seized it and smashed it with a heavy book entitled Nature's 
Nobility: A Wizarding Genealogy. There was a musical box that emitted 
a faintly sinister, tinkling tune when wound, and they all found 
themselves becoming curiously weak and sleepy until Ginny had the 
sense to slam the lid shut; also a heavy locket that none of them 
could open, a number of ancient seals and, in a dusty box, an Order of 
Merlin, First Class, that had been awarded to Sirius's grandfather 
for "Services to the Ministry." 

With all the references to spiders in HBP and in particular to Snape's 
character: "Spinner's End" and Harry description of Snape as spider-
like in "Snape's Worst Memory," does the above passage sound like 
foreshadowing?

The unpleasant spider-like instrument--could it be Snape?
I like what Sirius uses to smash the spider. What is the importance of 
Snape's HBP moniker? (Besides the fact that it's creepy and sounds 
like something an evil overlord would do.)

Does Snape think that Voldemort's power as a wizard is due to the fact 
that he had one muggle parent and one full blood parent? Is Snape 
comparing himself to Riddle: "The Dark Lord?" Because this super 
villain title then makes sense. 

Will a Black squash Snape in book 7?  Is Regulus alive and hiding out 
as Aberforth?  

What about Ginny and the music box. Is it possible that Regulus got a 
hold of two horcruxes? Maybe he just didn't have a chance to destroy 
them or he didn't know how. The sinister music reminds me of the song 
Snape sang to cure Draco.

And we already know that the locket is the horcrux that Regulus took 
from the lake. That needs to be located. Interesting that Aberforth 
was talking to Mundungus at Dumbledore's funeral. And that Mundungus 
was stealing items from the Black house.

Vivian