DH reread CH 15-17

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No: HPFGUIDX 186595

Nothing really jumped at me, especially nothing new with Sword stuff lol. I mean I did want to shake Ron in chapter 15 all over again and I am still not sure how Hermione knows that Horcrux influences him that much. Not disputing it one way or another, just wondering how does she know, since to me it is definitely not much information.

Now, chapter 16 to me feels even more Christian than before, but I do wonder how does Hermione know what "The last enemy that shall be destroyed in death" means?

I mean, I know I know I know she is Hermione, she knows everything, but come on now, she is now Bible scholar as well?

I almost cried when I read this:

"He let them fall, his lips pressed hard together, looking down at the thick snow hiding from his eyes the place where the last of Lily and James lay, bones now, surely or dust, not knowing or caring that their living son stood so near, his heart still beating, alive because of their sacrifice and close to wishing, at this moment, that he was sleeping under the snow with them" - p.269


Batilda Snakey was sick in a cool way if you ask me, but how thick Harry can be sometimes, huh? I mean, Harry you are in a company of the woman who does not *talk* (and nobody previously mentioned that Batilda has this particular disability) and you go with her?

THEN you feel Horcrux, you freaking HEAR "hold him" and you just standing here? Okay then.

I don't know, I know we debated the Potters' murder scene and whether the fact that James died without a wand makes him less heroic, but I don't know, his death hit me HARD all over again, because I found this description to be more poignant than probably scene of any fight James would have had, but that's JMO:

"They had not drawn the curtains, he saw them quite clearly in their little sitting room, the tall black-haired man in his glasses, making puffs of coloured smoke crupt from his wand for the amusement of the small black-haired boy in his blue pyjamas. The child was laughing and trying to catch the smoke, to grab it in its small fist..." - p.280



I have to say though that even though lot of us figured out that Harry will have to visit Godric Hollow, I imagined this visit completely differently before DH came out.

How about you guys?

Alla