( It's the Birdbath of DOOM )

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[Harry and his friends take the Floo back to Hogwarts]

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* I don’t know why, but whenever I read this chapter’s title it makes me think of My Immortal. “Harry was expecting Dumbledore to take him to the 3 bromsticks, but instead they went into………… DA CAVE!!!!!!!”
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The dragon continues to fly all day. It’s in remarkably good shape for an animal who’s been chained up, probably for years. Don’t a dragon’s muscles atrophy with disuse?

Ron notices they’re losing height, and Harry suggests they jump as soon as the dragon flies low enough over a lake for it to be safe for them to leap off into the water. They do so ( Read more... )

HRH and Griphook are finalizing their plans to attack Gringotts. Hermione will Polyjuice herself as Bella. Hermione’s wand was lost at the Malfoys’, and she doesn’t like Bella’s wand that she’s carrying as part of her disguise. She says it doesn’t work right and feels like a piece of Bella. Harry restrains himself from pointing out she sounds like ( Read more... )

* So Harry goes into Dumbledore’s office and we all get to see the memory. Brace yourself for some disappointment, people, it’s going to seem really anti-climactic after all the build-up we were given.

( Oh well, better get it over with... )

We've had discussions here at DTCL about the strangeness of Horcruxes being considered so much more evil than regular premeditated murder which splits your soul, and the discomfort at the idea that it seems to be considered so heinous because of what it does to the caster rather than the victim, like that actually matters more ( Read more... )

The two Hs decide to leave their campground because they think somebody’s around. They go to the Forest of Dean, since Hermione is familiar with that area from camping with her parents. You’d think for that reason its associations would be too painful for her, but Hermione 2.0 is almost as cold-blooded as her idol, Dumbledore.

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I was in the middle of crafting an extremely ingenious and elaborate explanation of why, uniquely in the WW, Lily’s sacrificial death could possibly have powered a shield so extraordinarily strong as to have deflected the unblockable Avada Kedavra, when the question hit me: but did it ( Read more... )