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.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Spinner's End canonical 3

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Statements (42)

Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional location
street
appearsIn Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter series
associatedWithCharacter Severus Snape
associatedWithHousehold Snape family
countryOfPublicationContext United Kingdom
createdBy J. K. Rowling
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
Severus Snape
Tobias Snape
isChildhoodHomeOf Eileen Snape
Severus Snape
Tobias Snape
languageOfName English
locatedInFictional unnamed industrial mill town
medium novel
ownedByInCanon Snape family
partOfFictionalUniverse Wizarding World
settingForEvent Unbreakable Vow between Severus Snape and Narcissa Malfoy
settingForSceneWith Bellatrix Lestrange
Narcissa Malfoy
Severus Snape
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
Narcissa Malfoy
Severus Snape

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Severus Snape childhoodResidence Spinner's End
Tobias Snape residesIn Spinner's End
Eileen Prince residence Spinner's End