What's in a name? (Re: CHAPDisc - Spinner's End)

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 142567

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Goddlefrood" <gav_fiji at y...> 
wrote: 
> To the point of this post. The chapter title of Chapter Two in HBP 
> is IMO a play on words. I believe it has nothing to do with spiders 
> or weaving.
> 
> My view is that it is a play on words, particularly the word spin, 
> which is quite a buzzword in the UK (thinking particularly of 
> Alistair Campbell and his fellow spin doctors).


Potioncat:
Your idea is a valid one. But this is not a me too post. BTW what is 
the origen of "spin doctor"? It's used in the US as well. 

I think JKR knew very well what she was doing and I think she was 
using many meanings of spin, and using them within the dangerous mood 
she had set up in this chapter. Snape has already been compared to 
spiders. There are two spy(ders) in the house. Snape uses the 
phrase "spun a tale." The houses belonged to a mill which had also 
met its end. I'm sure JKR had your meaning in mind as well.

This list discussed the possible inspriration for the name Spinner's 
End both before and immdiately after the book came out. Someone 
actually found an address "Spinner's End" and an associated mill. I 
wouldn't put it past JKR to have come across that name...just like 
she did with Snape... and decide to use it. Used it very well, I 
think.

I read the HP books to my youngest. With his short attention span it 
takes us days to get through a chapter. We've noticed many times that 
it isn't until the very end of the chapter that its title makes 
sense. In that case, the stupid, stupid UV was the Spinner's End.

Potioncat who can't help it. A Spin doctor would be someone who 
repaired LPs and 45's.