OOP Chapter 1 post DH look

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No: HPFGUIDX 182432

Okay, I am guessing I will find a lot of new things, since I only 
reread this book once or twice all together.

I just do not like feeling this enraged about Dumbledore. (wanting to 
splap him, yes, but enraged I can only take in small doses, and that 
was my feeling with him through this book :)

I also remember sympathizing so badly with Harry, his temper, his 
rudeness and all that.

And there was of course Umbridge.

Oh well, here we go.

I think this chapter sets up Harry's mood of being left out of the 
information loop brilliantly and that's on top of him still reliving 
Graveyard.

His aunt and uncle exchanged looks of outrage.
"Listening to the news! Again?
Well, it changes every day, you see," said Harry" - OOP, am.ed, p.6, 
paperback

Alla:

Heee, love that later on Harry says that he knew he is in trouble for 
his rudeness and did not care. Was waiting for him to talk back to 
Dursleys for several books ( I mean he tried in PS/SS to Dursley, but 
was not so succesful to me).


"Harry was sure that the crackling noise had been made by someone 
Apparating or Dissapparating. It was exactly the sound Dobby the 
house-elf made when he vanished into thin air" - p.7

Alla:

Okay, I know Harry is on edge, and desperately wants to see somebody 
magical, but was somebody here or he just thought somebody was?

It was surely not Arabella and Dementors cannot really apparate, 
right?


"We can't say much anything about you-know-what, obviously..." We've 
been told not to say anything important in case letters go astray..."

Alla:

So Harry is mad at Ron and Hermione, at Sirius, at everybody and I am 
already mad at Dumbledore. Oh dear and I just started.

And still when Harry produces Patronus later on in this chapter, his 
happy memory is Ron and Hermione.

Although, interesting detail:

"He was never going to see Ron and Hermione again -

And their faces burst clearly into his mind as he fought for his 
breath -

"EXPECTO PATRONUM" - p.18

Alla:

At first I thought that the happy memory was that he would never see 
them again and then I realized that I simply misread.