Spinner's End #6 - Seeking the Golden Snitch

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Discussion for Spinner's End #6 - Seeking the Golden Snitch by Lady Lupin.

(Old discussion of this article can be found HERE.)

[AbyBlutjager]

Here's a quote from Lady Lupin's editorial on the Golden Snitch:

Then we have Game Two. Luna is commentating! As she does in life, Luna makes observations that seem irrelevant and out of place, but often have a grain of truth in them. Ron is out of commission and a great deal of mayhem erupts on the Gryffindor side. Harry is upended. He is unable to retain his own concentration on the Snitch while his team is in such conflict. In his efforts to get the know-it-all McLaggen under control, he is smacked with a bludger to the head and receives the worst injury of his Quidditch career. Gryffindor loses, badly, and it's only through a brilliant performance in the final match, without Harry (who is unable to play because of Snape's detention), that they manage to win the Quidditch Cup.
Harry's life mirrors his Quidditch matches again. [cut] Then mayhem erupts all at once. He learns of Snape's betrayal of James and Lily. Dumbledore finds a Horcrux and Harry is to go with him to find it. But, at the same time, Harry knows that there is a serious threat to Hogwarts. Malfoy is celebrating, and Harry cannot be there to discover why and defend the school. He leaves his trusted friends in charge in his absence, just as he must for the last Quidditch game. He goes on his larger quest, having given his friends the best instruction and protection he can muster in the Marauder's Map and the Felix Felicis. And then it happens. Harry receives the bludger of all bludgers to the head: the death of Dumbledore. I think it's fair to say that Dumbledore's death is Harry's worst psychic injury to date. And like the bludger that Harry takes from his own team mate, McLaggen, Dumbledore's death is caused by one who is believed to be on Dumbledore's team: Severus Snape.
As they do on the Quidditch Pitch, Harry's friends (along with the expert help of the Order) manage to carry the day - they keep the school safe in Harry's absence. No students are killed, though the very foundations of Hogwarts are shaken by the events of that night. If it weren't for Harry's foresight, who knows what might have happened?

I want to suggest that perhaps game 2 in HBP also mirrors the events on the North Tower.... Not only has mayhem errupted at Hogwarts and Hogwarts/Dumbledore's side taken a big blow due to Dumbledore's death, but Harry is unable to interfer on the North Tower, this time due to Dumbledore stunning him (taking him out of the "game") at the crucial moment. If we are to support Good Snape, which I do, then Dumbledore's side, though it took a huge loss during the battle of Hogwarts, might yet win the war owing partially to Snape's "brilliant performance" in keeping his DE cover.
Just more thoughts.

[LunaticLOVEgood]

Wow I'm always as surprised at how good you're editorials are! But this time I was also speechless about what that was well spotted! (Sorry I just had to say that)

But I I've read the other reply's to this, and I saw that there are very few people said exactly what I thought when I read that!

Here, are 2 quotes from the editorial:

and it's only through a brilliant performance in the final match, without Harry (who is unable to play because of Snape's detention), that they manage to win the Quidditch Cup.

JKR tells us that she has written her last Quidditch match. It would appear that the bulk of Harry's training is behind him. Now he must focus on the final "game" of his quest. As we await Book Seven, we have few Quidditch clues to go on, except that, at the end of year six, Harry's team won. By the skin of their teeth, with some luck, some craft, some injuries, some loss, some skill and some daring, but they won.

If harry's quest really does mirror that last match it very much looks like good will win evil, in the end! Just like the griffindor team won the cup. BUT without Harry!!
what this means for harry can be read in a few ways...
but when I was reading the reply's I saw that someone was talking about even though Harry did not participate in the final match it did end with him getting Ginny.
I don't know if this counts but I hope so because otherwise it looks like the prospect is rather black for harry!

I'm still sure that Snape has a BIG role in this because it was him who put harry in detention!

But does this mean that Harry will die!? It's easy to read that out of this!
does this mean that Snape will kill him or save him?

at this point I'm really lost!

[Seekerof7]

Well spotted, indeed - I have always been intrigued by the game-as-metaphor thread throughout the series. But do you suppose metaphor will intersect with plot in book 7?

I recall reading, in Quidditch Through the Ages, the inventor of the first inanimate Golden Snitch hailing from Godric's Hollow. Of course this is the very place for which Harry, we know, is bound to search for clues of the remaining Horcruxes in book 7. Is anyone talking about this connection (and if so, where)?

Golden Snitch (orig.) as 7th horcrux, with pursuant chase scene to finish the action?

sos

[AbyBlutjager]

Well, we know that Snape and Wormtail will be back in Book 7....

Wormtail was a "snitch" when he told Voldemort about the Potters, and Snape was a "snitch" when he told Voldemort the first part of the prophesy.

We expect Harry to run into (or find) Wormtail because we have been told how Wormtail owes Harry a life debt.

We also expect Harry to run into (or find) Snape because Harry says that if he runs into Snape it will be all the better for himself and all the worse for Snape.

And now that we have seen Wormtail and Snape together (Spinner's End) it will be quite interesting to see how this all plays out.

Will Wormtail's help lead to Snape's demise? (I hope not.) And who would Wormtail be helping, Harry or Voldemort?

Will Harry return to 12 Grimmauld Place (searching for the locket) and find Snape hiding there (the irony would be quite fitting)?

Would we find Wormtail hanging around Spinner's End again, or is he back with Voldemort?

Catching the snitch, indeed.

[hp_07]

Well done! This is an excellent observation!

I only disagree on the ending. As mentioned, in the 6th book, Harry's team wins. Assuming this quidditch theory is correct, we must assume what "win" really means. Does it clearly state that Harry Potter will defeat Lord Voldemort? Or is it a little more complex?

The reason why I bring up this point is because I don't think JK Rowling will give away the ending in the 6th book. It would be too simple.