This is it, folks. The last chapter before new canon. A mere few hours, and we'll know it all. In the meantime:

( and hour by hour, he put off saying the thing that he knew he must say, doing what he knew it was right to do, because it was too hard to forgo his best source of comfort. )

And we finally arrive at the chapter that made the various fandom shippers scream with outrage, because a ship so heinous and so vile -- one the vast majority of the fandom claimed would never happen, ever in a million years -- came to fruition within these pages ( Read more... )

Only one week to go. I can't wait.

This chapter is a crucial one, with lots of information.

( Harry, have you any idea how few wizards could have seen what you saw in that mirror? )

( I'm going to Hagrid's, I've got a good feeling about going to Hagrid's. )

In a nutshell ( Read more... )

Tweaked from Spark Notes:

( Oh, Harry, what can we say? You saved Ginny... you saved Arthur... now you've saved Ron... )

Tweaked from Spark Notes.

( Just shove a bezoar down their throats )

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oppugno, v. (Latin): attack, assault, assail; do battle against.

The most important thing to remember about this chapter is that every single mention of Quidditch is a metaphor for sex.


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Summary tweaked from Spark Notes. Commentary by me.

( I knew I was special. Always, I knew there was something. )