cobwebs and Re: Peter

[potioncat]

Kneasy wrote: 
> There was a right old kerfuffle on HPfGU when it was announced as 
a  
> chapter title - a searching of gazetteers, maps and street plans 
to  
> try and locate it - with the somewhat optimistic hope that it 
might  
> provide a clue. IIRC just one Spinner's End was found (though the  
> name has since changed) and that was in Cradeley Heath in the old  
> West Midlands industrial area - what was spun there was not cloth 
or  
> thread but wire ropes.

KathyW
Sort of like the ropes that came out of Snape's wand back in PoA? 
Stong enough to restrain a werewolf? 

Not only were people searching maps, they had other ideas: death of 
Aragog, someone's end, someone's goal, something to do with Draco's 
detour....it's almost as if JKR took all the ideas and worked them 
into the book, if not the chapter.

The images that this chapter create are amazing. Who lives at 
Spinner's End? Two SPYders. Hmm, and spy was part of the spider 
riddle back in GoF. Snape has been described in spider-like terms 
(particularly in OoP), fitting he would live here, possibly killing 
flies in this very house as a teen. Right in the chapter itself he 
says, "I spun him a tale of deepest remorse..."

Kneasy:
 Peter as Kreacher - or Dobby? What fun!

KathyW:
And so we could have in book 7 a nice parallel to our favorite 
adversaries: a wanted man, forced to stay in the house of his 
childhood, the house filled with unpleasant memories, all the while 
forced to tolerate a servant he loathes. And don't call him coward.

But is this the beginning of the end for our favorite spinner of 
tales? Or is this chapter telling us his goal?  And what does it mean 
that right after Snape says three times "I will", the next chapter 
is "Will and Won't"?

Kathy W.