Sirius and Snape parallels again

[littleleahstill]

No: HPFGUIDX 185019

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lizzyben04" <lizzyben04 at ...> 
wrote:
>> 
> lizzyben:
> 
> Lupin is another clear example. I think DD's plan went a little
> awry there, though, because Lupin had another support system 
outside
> of DD in the Marauders. So DD imprisoned & hid Lupin away in a
> "haunted" house, but Lupin was able to escape imprisonment w/the 
help
> of his friends. Just as, later on, he escaped teaching at Hogwarts.
> But he never really escaped the Order, bound by DD's past favors to
> him. That was the emotional "hook" that snagged Lupin. And in the 
end
> the pattern played out the same: the child was imprisoned by DD &
> later killed by a dark wizard. 

Leah: Whatever Dumbledore's conscious reasons, it does make you 
wonder about Dumbledore's subconcious reaction to the Prank, both at 
the time it occurs, when he apparently fails to punish Sirius, and 
fails to give Severus any closure, and much later when he learns the 
truth about the animagi and their escapades from Sirius at the end  
of POA.   How dare Severus and Sirius, either intentionally or out 
of recklessness, risk exposing this hidden shame to the world?  I've 
always thought that 'My memory is as good as it ever was, Severus', 
sounded a bit creepy- now it sounds very creepy.

> In that same chapter, there's an unintentional similarity between 
DD &
> Slughorn. After Harry meets Slughorn, the text says that Harry 
had "a
> sudden vivid mental image of a great swollen spider, spinning a web
> around it, twitching a thread here and there to bring its large and
> juicy flies a little closer." Spiders also knit patterns that 
extend
> far around them, catching all passersby in their wake.  

Leah: So perhaps the chapter title 'Spinners End', usually taken to 
refer to Snape, spinning Bellatrix a yarn and being spun by Narcissa 
into sealing his own fate with the Unbreakable Vow, also refers to 
the fact that the Vow seals Snape's promise to end the biggest 
spinner of them all.


 Of course, DD is
> hiding from Harry that it's been his plan for Voldemort and Harry 
to
> kill each other all along. DD finishes with: "I take my hat off to 
you
> - or I would, if I were not afraid of showering you in spiders." 
It's
> all going according to plan, the pattern has been spun, and the
> threads of the spider's web have been twitched to bring all the 
juicy
> flies a little closer for the main event. 
> 
> *shivers* 

Leah: Harry escapes his fate of course (thanks to Voldemort's 
machinations), and meets his 'death' amongst broken webs.

Leah