CHAPDISC: HBP 2, Spinner's End

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 142034

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "meriaugust" <meriaugust at y...> 
wrote:
>
> > 
> Just a couple of my own questions (hope you don't mind potioncat!): 
> 
> - Who was watching whom? Was Snape there to keep Wormtail that ever 
> loving screw up from getting in to too much trouble? Or was 
Wormtail 
> assigned to, ahem, tail the double agent and make sure everything 
> was kept on the up and up? I wonder if LV would have placed 
Wormtail 
> there if he didn't think the rat man could handle Snape. And I am 
> also wondering what happened to the rat man when Snape went back to 
> school. 
> 

I think that Wormtail was watching Snape on Voldemort's orders.  I do 
not think Voldy trusts anyone, and Snape is questionable.  Notice 
that Wormtail begins to argue with Snape - about the fetching of 
drinks - but once Snape tells him that he can request new duties for 
Peter - Wormtail backs down.  Peter is there on Voldemort's orders to 
spy on Snape, I believe.  If word gets back to LV that Peter is 
kicking up a fuss and not wanting to do what Snape asks him to do, I 
think that LV will be very displeased with Peter.  Peter's job is to 
*spy* and listen at doorways.  I don't think Peter has ever done 
anything on his own, so I think this order came down from LV.

> - Bella as a nickname for Bellatrix is now cannon, if it wasn't in 
> OotP. But Narcissa being called Cissy (Sissy? I don't quite 
> remember)? Does anyone else think that was a mite sugary? Or has 
the 
> Won-won incident left a bad taste in my mouth? 

Ah, I thought it was kinda cute.  The sisters have nicks for each 
other - it is common.  I don't think anyone else calls Narcissa 
Cissy - Snape certainly doesn't call her that nor does he call 
Bellatrix Bella.  He doesn't even call Tonks as Tonks.  I think Snape 
calls people by the first name - no nicknames allowed here!

colebiancardi
(who hated being called Shelly as a child - I would stamp my foot and 
tell them my name is Michele!)