What is the use of Ch2 "Spinners End"?

[littlegreenpartyhats]

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houyhnhnm wrote:

> I love the title--Spinner's End.  Why "Spinner's End", why 
> not "Spinner's Row". The spinner of lies, for all his virtuosity, 
> has met his end.  He is caught in his own web of deceit. I think 
> it shows "loyal death eater" is NOT one of the possible 
> explanations for Snape's behavior.  Because what takes place that 
> day is not the end for him if he is, just another opportunity.


I love the title, too.  I had a different interpretation of it.  I 
took it to mean that, in this chapter, we see the end of Snape's 
lies.  It finally shows us the truth: Snape is ESE and here is the 
real explanation of his ambiguous actions in the first five books.

He continues his double agent role through the year and pushes it as 
far as he can.  At the Astronomy Tower, he can go no further and 
finally makes a choice.  He chooses to side with LV.  Only at the 
end does Dumbledore realizes the mistake he made in trusting Snape 
and pleads with Snape, not for his life, but for him not to betray 
the Order.

I'd love to be wrong, mostly because I dont want Dumbledore to have 
been so terribly wrong.  But, JKR (in this book and in the post 
publication interview) kept hammering away at how even Dumbledore 
makes mistakes and is too trusting, etc. etc.  

All this plus her Snape comments in the interviews and her previous 
statement that Books 6 and 7 were time for answers not more 
questions leads me to the ESE!Snape conclusion.

That said, I will desperately cling, at least for a while, to 
Snape's "until you learn to close your mind" advice as being so 
wholly inconsistent with the above that it rips apart the foundation 
of the hyper-elegant house of cards that is my conclusion.  

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