[HPforGrownups] Re: Spinner's End Clues

[Kathryn Jones]

No: HPFGUIDX 153926

drgn2374 wrote:
> "canyoutellmehowtoget": 
>> Maybe DD taught Snape the conjuring charm which always leaves 
>> dust on the bottle. Or maybe it's fairy dust. Ok, I'm kidding. 
>> That is interesting that JKR included dust in both instances. 
>> It does suggest a well aged wine or mead, though. Maybe that's
>> what she was going for.
> 
> 
> Addition to the previous post. Maybe due to the time essence and 
> the people they were presenting the wine to. Were not considered 
> proper or their firends. So that could be the reason that the wine 
> was presented in a dusty manner. 
> 
> RB, just guessing

KJ:
   I have been seeing some great answers but I am thinking that I was 
not clear in my interest in the dusty bottle.  We are treated to a 
specific comparison in these two scenes. In one, Snape sends PP to *his* 
wine cellar for a bottle of wine. It is described as dusty.  In the next 
scene, DD, in a house *not his own*, conjures a bottle of mead which is 
also described as dusty. Surely, not every bottle in Britain is dusty! I 
am wondering if this is a clue that this is not actually Snape's true 
residence but rather an address used only when stuck with Peter or 
contacting other DE. I can see no other reason for her description of 
the darn dusty bottles.
KJ