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

[n_longbottom01]

No: HPFGUIDX 143762

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lucianam73" <lucianam73 at y...> 
wrote:
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> Caro wrote:
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> 
> 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 answers:
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> 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!
> 
> Lucianam
>

n_longbottom01:

I had read "Spinners End" as "Spinner's End".  I connected Spinner 
with a spider spinning a web.  And I connected that idea with this 
saying:  "Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practive to 
decieve."  So, in Spinners End, we see the spider (Snape) who has 
been spinning his web of lies get caught in his own web, which leads 
directly to his own end (his downfall, and eventually his demise).

I don't know what to make of Snape.  Right now I am tentatively 
settling on the idea that Snape was truely trying to serve two 
masters (trying to please two different father figures)... and it 
isn't until the Unbreakable Curse that he gets caught in a situation 
where he has to choose one side over the other.  And he gets caught 
in such a way so that he doesn't really have much choice.

n_longbottom01