Spinner's End

[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 156752

Magpie:

> Weak and circular?  The man comes out an introduces himself 
> as the Half-Blood Prince in the book.  Pretty straight and to 
> the point with nothing we know contradicting it.

houyhnhnm:

And nothing supporting it except the statement of the man who ran 
across the lawn.  How do we know it was Snape?

Talk about a Chekhov's Gun.  Rowling brings a .500 Magnum on stage, 
shows it to us no less than three times in the first five chapters 
(purple homeland security leaflet, DD's remark about stawberry jam, 
Arthur and Molly's exchange of passwords) and then uses it to shoot 
blanks (Grabbe and Goyle disguised as little girls).