What is the use of Ch2 "Spinners End"?.

[eggplant107]

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delwynmarch wrote:

> And finally my biggest concern: we did 
> NOT NEED to learn what was in that
> chapter!! Why do we need to know ANY 
> of the things we learn in that chapter? 

Actually I thought JKR was brilliant the way she did it, I don't know
of another writer who could have pulled it off. For 6 books we've seen
Snape do extremely nasty things and for 6 books we've heard the hero
of the books tell us over and over that Snape is Evil, and in chapter
2 we even see Snape making unbreakable vows and conspiring with Death
Eaters, and yet JKR manipulates her readers so skillfully that it's 
still a huge shock when we discover in the end that Harry was
absolutely correct and the reason Snape always acted so unpleasantly
is because he is indeed evil. Talk about hiding in plain sight!
Brilliant! 

By the way, now we know why Harry did so poorly in Snape's Occlumency
lessons in book 5 and why they weakened his defenses rather than
strengthen them. 

Eggplant