GoF - Chapter Nine

[charme]

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I have been focusing on Chapter Nine of GoF as in JKR's interviews and chats 
she says that it was so difficult to write, she thought about skipping the 
chapter completely. We pick up the action as Harry, Hermoine, and Ron have 
fled to the woods after the supposed "DE's" began having some Muggle sport. 
Please note that up to this point, the trio had been hearing bangs and 
shouts from the campsite, then Draco Malfoy appears:



GoF, Chapter Nine (US)



Ron told Malfoy to do something that Harry knew he would never have dared 
say in front of Mrs.

Weasley.

"Language, Weasley," said Malfoy, his pale eyes glittering.  "Hadn't you 
better be hurrying

along, now?  You wouldn't like her spotted, would you?"



He nodded at Hermione, and at the same moment, a blast like a bomb sounded 
from the campsite,

and a flash of green light momentarily lit the trees around them.

A blast like a bomb? A flash of green light? Does this in any way sound like 
something we've possibly read about before?  What other than the Muggle 
sport, Winky, and the Dark Mark happened that night?

charme