Spinner's End

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Spinner's End is a bleak, industrial street in a rundown mill town that serves as Severus Snape’s grim childhood home in the Harry Potter series.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional location
street
appearsIn Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows NERFINISHED
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince NERFINISHED
Harry Potter series NERFINISHED
associatedWithCharacter Severus Snape NERFINISHED
associatedWithHousehold Snape family NERFINISHED
countryOfPublicationContext United Kingdom NERFINISHED
createdBy J. K. Rowling NERFINISHED
describedAs bleak
industrial
rundown
hasAtmosphere depressing
gloomy
hasBuildingType row houses
hasGenreContext fantasy literature setting
hasNarrativeFunction location for making the Unbreakable Vow
reveals aspects of Snape's background
hasNearbyFeature factory chimneys
river
hasNotableResident Eileen Snape NERFINISHED
Severus Snape NERFINISHED
Tobias Snape NERFINISHED
isChildhoodHomeOf Eileen Snape NERFINISHED
Severus Snape NERFINISHED
Tobias Snape NERFINISHED
languageOfName English
locatedInFictional unnamed industrial mill town
medium novel
ownedByInCanon Snape family NERFINISHED
partOfFictionalUniverse Wizarding World NERFINISHED
settingForEvent Unbreakable Vow between Severus Snape and Narcissa Malfoy
settingForSceneWith Bellatrix Lestrange NERFINISHED
Narcissa Malfoy NERFINISHED
Severus Snape NERFINISHED
timePeriodOfDepiction 1970s (Snape's childhood)
1996 (events of Half-Blood Prince)
usedAs symbol of Snape's impoverished upbringing
symbol of industrial decay
visitedBy Bellatrix Lestrange NERFINISHED
Narcissa Malfoy NERFINISHED
Severus Snape NERFINISHED

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Severus Snape childhoodResidence Spinner's End