CHAPDISC: HBP2, Spinners End: sociological habitat

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> Deborah wrote:
> snip 
> > Which means that they wouldn't notice Snape either, or PP, 
regardless
> > of whether Spinners End contains an unplottable house or not. Good
> > security, and a wonderful atmosphere of seedy decay, work gone to
> > waste, hopelessness hanging over it like the smoke from the 
chimneys
> > used to do when there was work available, busy housewives and 
noisy
> > children.
> > 
> > What I'd like to know is where all those books came from. Never a 
very
> > literate neighbourhood at its best, I don't think ... so maybe 
they
> > were inherited from Mother Eleanor. Interesting titles, no doubt.
> 
> Potioncat:
> 
> 
> Here's a link to a great essay about a possible source for 
Spinner's End by June 
> Diamante, (a HPfGU member) It includes a couple of pictures, 
including 
„« one that could be "the chimney". There's a brief description of 
mill towns and an idea for the location.
> 
> http://www.livejournal.com/users/junediamanti/139235.html
> 
„« Take a look, if only for the photos. 

It probably doesn't matter in the long run, but I'm very curious 
about 
> Spinner's End as Snape's current and past home and about Eileen. 
We'll 
> discuss her later, I'm sure.
> 
> I think Spinner's End is his boyhood home. Or at least one he 
visited. 
> It fits very well with Snape's memory as seen in chp 26 of OoP:
> "A greasy-haired teenager sat alone in a dark bedroom, pointing his 
> wand at the ceiling, shooting down flies."
> 
> And from the Pensieve in chp 28 of OoP:
> "Snape-the-teenager had stringy, pallid look about him, like a 
plant 
> kept in the dark."
> 
> Spinner's End sounds like a dark place to grow up...for Wizard or 
> Muggle; and a place where flies would buzz around in a dark room.
> 
> The memory of the yelling man, cowering woman and crying child is 
in an 
> undescribed room, and could be the one we see in Spinner's End or 
some 
> other room. That means, if Severus lived at Spinner's End, he and 
> Eileen could just as easily have been at the Yelling Man's house 
> (Grandfather Prince?)
> 
> For its current purpose, it provides Snape a great deal of 
solitude, no 
> one is likely to drop by just to discuss old DE days. 
> 
> As for the books...
> Does he have them because he's doing research for the Dark Lord? 
Does 
> he have them because he loves books in the way Hermione does? These 
> sound like very nice books. And if this is the case, it sounds as 
if he 
> spends more money on books than he does on physical comfort.
> 
> But I have to admit, I was recently in a tiny conference room, 
facing 
> two convergent walls completely covered in books. I thought to 
> myself, "It does look like a padded cell!" That is, it looked like 
what 
> I think a padded cell might look like. I wonder if JKR in all her 
> dealing with agents and lawyers had found herself in that situation 
and 
> put it in her book with no other reason....Nah..

Potioncat:
I removed this post for some quick editing. Now it has extra > 
symbols and a few other odd ones. Oh well. Do check out the link!
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