Spinner's End and Hogwart's protection

[laurawkids]

No: HPFGUIDX 156745

>Carol responds:
>Impact or not, I can't reconcile Severus's growing up in a Muggle
>neighborhood with knowing all those hexes, invented or not. 
>snip<
>The house doesn't reveal anything about his childhood background.
>snip<
>Carol, who still thinks that Snape bought the place as an adult and
>fixed it up to suit his tastes as a bachelor wizard who spent a lot 
of
>time reading and not much time cleaning house.

Laurawkids:

First, a question to you all.  Do we know where Harry's town, or 
Snape's are?  Do we have general directions to place them here or 
there in the UK?  If we know they are nowhere near each other, then 
never mind, but if we have nothing on them yet, I think I have found 
something in OOTP which may support what Carol says here.  

p. 56 OOTP US paperback:

   "Bearing south!" shouted Mad-Eye.  "Town ahead!"
   "They soared right, so that they did not pass directly over the 
glittering **spiderweb** of lights below." (** mine)

It's not much, but this may be a tip-off that Spinner's End is in 
the next town over from Harry.  That may show that Snape took the 
house years ago to be closer to pre-Hogwarts Harry, or the house is 
really a safe-house for the Order with Snape being its main 
tennant.  

With things heating up and Harry coming of age soon, LV would 
certainly have liked Wormtail to do his own scouting of the 
Dursley's area, and keep track on Snape's interaction with Harry 
over the summer, so he puts him there.  

Dumbledore may have summoned the dusty mead from Spinner's End.  It 
would be the closest stock of it.   

Will Snape and Draco find that Sp.End is surrounded when they flee, 
and decide that there is some sort of protection to be had at the 
Dursley's?!!  

Would that not be fun, to find that all the Harry-haters were 
uncomfortably camped at No. 4, waiting for Harry to come back from 
the wedding?!!!!  They would get on like a house on fire!!  Snape 
would have to hide in Harry's closet under the stairs at some point, 
just for fun.  



Not related, but I wonder what the state of protection is now at 
Hogwarts, after DD messed with it so they could fly in on their 
brooms.  Will Harry remember this in a desperate moment in the 
summer and be able to enter and have Hogwarts and DD's office and 
pensive all to his onesies?  We know Harry now has many ways of 
unlocking doors.  

We know Snape can fly well enough to referee, maybe he was 
legellem'd by DD that this was a new way in, so he could take refuge 
there after everyone went home.  Will Harry be there and confront 
Snape, thus giving them a nice uninterrupt-ed/able hashing out of 
everything?

And why did Sluggy seem a bit anxious to get everyone gone from 
Hogwarts the night DD died?  That seems like some plan.   

Laurawkids, who would never, ever shred a book unless it was about 
Barney the purple dinosaur.