CHAPDISC: HBP 2, Spinner's End

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 142522

>6 Elf-made wine 
> doesn't sound too safe either. How many stories involve some danger 
> at drinking something made by elves or fairies? These are magical 
> folk, so perhaps it's not so dangerous. Do you think this was just 
> setting the magical mood, or was JKR waving a flag?

Potioncat:
OK, OK, I can't help myself. Do you think the elves who made the wine 
are related to the Keebler elves who bake cookies? 

> 
> 7. This is a serious chapter, with lots of dark images. It's 
> informative too, but it's difficult to decide which information is 
> truth and which is deception. What images or feelings made an 
> impression on you? How do they affect your interpretation of the 
> story? 

Potioncat:
All the images just about yell "Danger, Will Robinson!" But one of 
the more obvious ones may have something else behind it, at least in 
the the allusion category. In the first place, long fingers seem to 
be a sign of magic. I think that both DD and Snape are described as 
having long fingers. Anyone else?

"...the towering mill chimney seemed to hover like a giant admonitory 
finger."

At that moment we don't yet know whose house the sisters are 
visiting. And while I'm probably taking this too far, Snape's fingers 
are often mentioned in canon. I convinced myself it would be insanity 
to look for the actual words from the books, and berated myself that 
if I were a true Snapeaholic I'd be able to cite chapter, page number 
and paragraph from memory.

But, IIRC, we have Snape circling his mouth with a long finger and 
pointing a long yellow finger at either the Trio or Draco (incident 
with teeth, I think.) So perhaps Snape smokes like a chimney and 
that's why his teeth and fingers are yellow...


Oh, and while I'm at it. Would Steve like to explain to my kids what 
a typewriter ribbon is used for?