Spinner's End ---- From a different perspective

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 143733

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lucianam73" <lucianam73 at y...> 
wrote:
>
> Caro wrote:
> >
> 
> > A spinner of course could be a liar. But he could also be 
somebody 
> who
> > spinns string. So it could also be the sealment of the end of the 
one
> > who spinns something. For example countermeasures or means of
> > information. Then this spinner, whose end is sealed is 
Dumbledore. If
> > so, then the title of the chapter says very little about Snape.
> > 
> > What is your opinion about this idea?
> > 
> > Yours Caro
> >
> 
Lucianam:
> Thanks, I didn't know 'spinner' could mean a liar (I'm not a native 
> english speaker, so I miss some things).
> 
> That would be very interesting, if Snape is 'spinning' his web of 
> lies, who is he trying to fool? If he's fooling Bellatrix in 
Spinner's 
> End, he could be on the right side.
> 
> Your idea of the spinner ending in Dumbledore's death is good, I 
> think, and very much to JKR's tastes. She likes her double meaning, 
> doesn't she?
> 
> I had never thought the title of this chapter was meaningful, 
thanks 
> for the clue!

Geoff:
Looking at things as a native English speaker, I have never 
heard "spinner" used as the word for a liar.

We will talk of someone "spinning a yarn" which can mean a 
storyteller - such as JKR or JRRT for example - but it can mean 
someone who is bending the truth, but only in this grammatical form, 
not as a noun.