[HPforGrownups] Re: Spinner's End Clues

[Kathryn Jones]

No: HPFGUIDX 153869

Len Jaffe wrote:
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> Kathryn Jones wrote:
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>> provided was dusty, what does it say about Snape's
>> living arrangements 
>> when his wine shows up dusty. When I first read the
>> book, this caught my 
>> eye immediately, and I am sure that it is for a
>> reason.
> 
> Now Len:

> A dusty bottle is what one would expect if one were to
> conjure it from ones wine cellar.

> Len.
> HPfGU resident alky (apparently).

   KJ writes:

     Perhaps if a person, like DD, conjured it, it might show up dusty. 
  Personally, if he was showing such courtesy to the Dursleys, I would 
expect him to conjure a clean bottle. Can it be much harder than 
conjuring a bottle at all?
     As far as Snape's bottle is concerned, I would also expect Peter to 
wipe it off prior to serving it, wouldn't you?
     I mean, information about wine and bottles, and storage aside, JKR 
must have had a reason to describe both bottles in the same way. The 
book almost suggests that these two bottles are being opened at very 
nearly the same time in different places.

KJ
Who apparently knows bugger all about wine bottles