Chapter 32 Summary - Flesh, Bone, and Blood

[Carole Estes]

No: HPFGUIDX 13116

Sorry this is a bit delayed.  Which is no excuse because it is possibly the
shortest chapter in the book.

This chapter starts with Harry and Cedric landing in the graveyard in Little
Hangleton.  They are apprehensive.  Neither knew the Triwizard Cup was a
portkey (neither did anyone else for that matter.)  They draw their wands
and see someone approach.  Its Wormtail with the proto-Voldemort in his
arms.  Before they realize what is happening Voldemort orders Wormtail to
"Kill the Spare" and just like that Cedric is killed with the killing curse.

Harry is stunned.  He's dragged to Tom Riddle Sr.'s headstone and bound and
gagged.  Wormtail then prepares to move all the elements into place to
effect Voldemort's reincorporation.

1. A large stone cauldron
2. Lights a fire beneath
3. Places the proto-Voldemort in the cauldron

Harry prays it will drown.  Its described as the size of a human child, but
hairless, scaly, dark, raw, reddish black (there are those colors again).
Its face was flat like a snakes with gleaming red eyes. (yech!)

The incantation is then performed:

Bone of the father, unknowingly given. You will renew your son.
Flesh of the servant, willingly given. You will revive your master.
Blood of the enemy, forcibly taken.  You will resurrect your foe.

Wormtail cuts his right hand off and draws Harry's blood.

White steam issues from the cauldron.  A tall, skeletal man appears whose
face is whiter than a skull, with wide livid red eyes, a flat nose with
slits like a serpant

Lord Voldemort had risen.

Questions:

1.  When Peter Pettigrew is serving the dark lord is he always called
wormtail?  As if his name was changed once he went over to the dark side.
Do the other Death Eaters know who Wormtail is?

2. Were you upset by Cedric's death?  Was it gratuitous or vital to the plot
and / or Lord Voldemort's character development?

3.  Why didn't Wormtail bleed to death after he cut off his arm?

Did you read this chapter verbatim to your kids?  Were they creeped out?

In answer to the last question, this chapter was the only chapter I
paraphrased to my 7 yo when we read this book.  My next email has the
version of this chapter I read to him.  This is for comic relief as hubby
Randy (some of you remember him) had a large part in this paraphrased
version of this chapter.

I hope to have my character summary of Sirius done before I go to bed
tonight (and then go to sleep with siriously happy thoughts...sigh)  For an
unabridged interpretation of Sirius' character you can always read the
fanfic I'm writing with Penny, "A Sirius Affair" (just thought I'd slip that
in there...hehehehehhehe)