Spinner's End

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 126218


> Carol:
> 
> Interesting suggestion. I've always wondered what happened to 
Sirius's
> other house--surely the one he intended for Harry to come and live 
in
> if he (Sirius) hadn't remained a fugitive and if 12 Grimmauld Place,
> with all the protections already on it, hadn't been a perfect (if
> eerie and uncomfortable) choice for Order Headquarters.
> 
> Regarding the name "Spinner's End": I thought that "End" was a term
> used in Britain for a cul-de-sac, which literally means "bottom of 
the
> bag" (note Tolkien's pun in naming Bilbo's house "Bag End," which 
IIRC
> refers to both the house and the cul-de-sac where it's situated. At
> the end of LOTR, the street replacing Bagshot Row is called New Row
> but referred to as "Sharky's End" as "a purely Bywater joke."
> 
> My point is that I can see "Spinner's End" being both the name of a
> street ending in a cul-de-sac and a house at the end of that 
street. I
> won't try to speculate about whose house it is, but I'll bet it's 
the
> place Harry goes after "the shortest stay ever" at 4 Privet Drive.
> 
> Carol

Finwitch:

I myself believe that as well. A street called Spinner's end (two 
locations have been found on a map), a house located at the end of 
it - AND possibly a Spinner died there.
 
Famous spinners in literature:
Legendary witch who put Sleeping Beauty to her famous sleep...

The elf who could spin gold out of straw... -- what was his name?

The Fates...

Arachne; and the goddess, Athene...
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Oh, and I suppose that it *could* be Sirius' other house. 
Particularly if Sirius comes back as Stuffy Boardman...

But it could belong to Flamels, too. And I'd say that Perenelle DOES 
know how to spin - what woman didn't 6-7 centuries ago? (and they 
could be alive. Albus may have erred in thinking that the stone was 
destroyed - or Nicholas made a new one - and well, it was never 
suggested that their death at the destruction of the stone would be 
instant!)

Actually I kind of like the idea of Flamels-- who might even be 
Harry's relatives... ancestors: maybe they had a daughter (- or 
granddaughter - or-- well, you get it...) - who married a Potter: a 
wizard who may even have been working with clay those days... or some 
ancestor to Lily&Petunia Evans...

Finwitch