The Joke's on Me

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 174781


Did anyone outsmart themselves in DH? The time you knew at once what 
was going on and what was about to happen
. But to your surprise, it 
didn't? Not a disappointing moment, but a groaner moment that made 
you laugh at yourself. Maybe even a place where you half suspected 
JKR had just pulled one over on you.

Then here's the place to confess it.

My moment was in chapter 20. Harry sees a spider in a web. I knew at 
once, it was Animagus Snape! It all came together: Spinners End, 
spinning tales, knitting wounds, the spy(der). To top it off, Harry's 
magic didn't work on the spider---just like Ron's spell didn't work 
on Animagus Pettigrew (Scabbers in SS/PS) Any moment now Snape would 
transfigure back to his bat-like self and announce the DDM!truth to 
Harry. We had just seen his Doe Patronus. (Hadn't we?)

He was getting closer
.

Any moment


It was just a spider. (Which made me doubt the doe.)


Potioncat, laughing at herself