Blast Ended Slugs in Books 2 and 6

No, I will not be drawing some physical connection between blast-ended skrewts and slugs, but I do think there is a symbolical one. As THE magical creature in book 4 as the center of the series I think the BESes provide some type of paradigm for creatures in general throughout the chiastic structure of the series. In books 2 and 6 it is precisely slugs as "back-firing" In book 2 Ron tries to jinx Malfoy with "Eat Slugs" and because of his damaged wand it backfires on him and he is chucking slugs up into a bucket for quite some time in Hagrids hut (one of my fave lines: "Better out than in.") And in book 6 we meet Sluggo, or Slughorn. La Shawn commented, on my post on the House of Black, about Granger's article where he speculates about Sluggo being up to something funny and we might not be sure whose side he is really on. I am not sure who he "back-fired" for, but I do think Sluggo back-fired on somebody (either DD or Voldy), just as the "eat slugs" jinx back-fired on Ron in Book 2. It may be as simple as the fact that his house getting ripped to shreds, far from scaring him away from DD, scared him towards DD and Hogwarts as a safe haven. But it also might be something deeper and more fundamental to the upcoming plot of book 7. On a side note, I think there may be some "authorial intent" support here. In the interview with Rowling included on the extras disk for the second movie, they ask her and Columbus (or maybe Kloves, since he did the screenplay) if there is much consultation of the nature of "should we keep this in or can we drop it" and she is trying not to give anything away, so she does not mention any particular scenes, but she does say that that sort of thing does go on This is also what I mean by a progression in the chiastic structure whereby the second element is a deepening of the first by way of passing through the the cruxt. In book 2 it is merely the creatures slugs that backfire, in book 6 "Sluggo" is a person who plays a key role.