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HBP Chapter 3, Will and Won't

Jun 23, 2007 22:55

Chapter 3 opens with our first glimpse of Harry in this book. He's asleep, drooling all over the window.

( Both Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon looked around instinctively, as though expecting to see someone other than Dudley squeezed between them. )

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geezer_also June 24 2007, 04:36:07 UTC

I was actually a bit disappointed in this chapter, while not a big Dursley fan, (maybe not even a fan at all) but I felt that they got a bit of a short shrift. But then maybe cuz I was expecting a bit more back story.

hymnia June 27 2007, 03:20:37 UTC

I think this chapter starts an important trend for HBP: though he has always been awesome, Dumbledore is about 100 times more awesome in this book. He does things we wished he would have done all along, like tell the Dursleys off, and give full, straight-forward answers to Harry's questions (in the next chapter). This book makes Dumbledore more personable--more lovable, even--than he's ever been. I think Jo was setting things up to make the emotional impact of the ending that much more powerful.