Chapter 18 of our Deathly Hallows Read-Through is brought to you by Red Rocker.
Like other great novels, Deathly Hallows is about how human beings try to love one another. Chapter 18 shows different kinds of love: the love Harry and Hermione have for each other and which makes itself known in every word they speak to one another. The problematic love of Albus Dumbledore for one Gellert Grindelwald. And more importantly, for one Harry Potter
This is how matters stand at the start of chapter 18.
Harry has lost his parents, his godfather, and his mentor to Voldemort and his Death Eaters. Dumbledore has set him on a mission to destroy the remaining horcruxes, but has not given him a clear idea of where they are or how he is to destroy them.. Ron has walked out on him. His last good idea of where the Sword of Gyriffindor might be has backfired in a grotesque ambush. And his wand – his right arm – has been rendered impotent. As in broken and bent, hanging together by a strand of phoenix feather. So useless that he has to borrow a girl’s wand to protect himself. [click to continue…]
On her blog Quoth the Maven, Janet Batchler has some great comments regarding who is the hero of Harry Potter: Harry Potter or Dumbledore. She’s responding to a story here arguing that Dumbledore is the real hero of the HP series not Harry. Check out both and see what you think.
Quick Synopsis: After an abortive attempt to return to Grimmauld Place, the Trio instead end up in a forest. Yaxley was able to hold on long enough to get within the protective charms on the house, but Hermione shakes him off and goes to where the Quidditch Cup was held in Goblet of Fire. Ron is splinched and has a gaping wound in his arm and is in danger of bleeding to death. Tense moments pass until first aid is applied. Ron appears to be okay, but the Trio decide to stay put for a spell. The Trio have the Locket Horcrux but only have vauge ideas on how to destroy it. Caution and watchfulness become the order of the day. Hermione puts up several protective spells and Harry suggests he and she take turns watching. As he takes the first watch, Harry begins heading into the doldrums again which leaves him open to seeing another vision from Voldemort’s head. The Dark Lord has finally found Gregorovitch and learns that the object he seeks was stolen years ago by the curly haired, wild, merry youth. The vision ends with Gregorovitch’s death and Harry is left to ponder what he has seen. [click to continue…]
Chapter 8 is brought to you by guest-blogger Red Rocker!
The camera loves the wedding scene. It roams from one small group to another, picking up a conversation here, an argument there, a quick glimpse of a girl dancing by herself over there, a young man finding a seat at a table by an old man, getting him to talk about the past, an old woman settling down beside them to provide a derisive counterpoint to the discussion. Chapter 8 reads like it was written for the camera – but perhaps that’s the nature of weddings, to be episodic, transient, giving glimpses of many lives brought together in a brief moment of juxtaposition, until they go their separate ways again.
So we see the Weasley twins acting out their patented shtick – and because we have already read the book to the end, it breaks our hearts when Fred talks about his own wedding. We see Krum ogling Hermione and – unforgivably – Ginny, and we hear him drop a tidbit of information about Grindelwald. We hear Luna greet the disguised Harry, easily seeing through the effects of the polyjuice. We see Ron’s brief moment of shock as he sees a dolled up Hermione and watch the two of them warily working toward their long-overdue union. And then Harry pulls up a seat beside Doge, Aunt Muriel plops herself between them and the camera settles down to the main event. [click to continue…]
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