[HPforGrownups] Re: Spinner's End ---- From a different perspective

[P J]

No: HPFGUIDX 143740




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.

Then there's the ever popular spin that exists in politics.  A microscopic 
kernel of truth surrounded by lies, innuendoes and half truths for the 
purpose of manipulation... It could also fit in that chapter but we don't 
know if the spin doctor was Snape, Cissy or even Voldermort at this point.

PJ (who was really disappointed in the GOF movie)






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