Hagrid

Special thanks to Lily Luna for her willingness to guest-blog for Chapter 22 of our Half-Blood Prince Read-Through! She’ll be returning for “Flight of the Prince” as well. Enjoy! ~ Travis

I am honored to be asked to assist with the HBP read-through.

In Chapter 22, Slughorn extracts a bottle of valuable venom from the dead Aragog and Harry in turn extracts a bottle of valuable memory from him. Thus both spinners are milked of something evil. Harry gets the memory through a combination of drinking lucky potion, luring Slughorn with the promise of the venom, getting Slughorn drunk, appealing to his love of Lily and affection for Harry, and promising him that giving Harry the memory will cancel out the damage done by discussing horcruxes with Voldemort. [click to continue…]

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