GoF Chapter Thirty-Two

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

*Against all odds, Voldemort’s stupid plan seems to have worked.

*Peter walking up with Voldemort in his arms is pretty awesome. It’s almost a shame it gets spoiled by Harry’s scar pain. Kill the spare: also awesome.

*I notice Voldemort does not say, "Kill the ruggedly handsome spare with lovely grey eyes," because he’s not a great big boy-fancier like Harry is.

*Harry stared at Cedric for a second that contained an eternity, or perhaps several sunlit days.

*Baby Voldemort: also pretty damned awesome. And the cauldron’s a nicely Celtic touch.

*I don’t know about you, but I think all this "bone of the father unwittingly given" stuff is just made up as they go along for dramatic effect. Voldemort’s the only one who seems to do dramatic magic. With everybody else it’s all perilously close to pig Latin.

*I guess Wormtail has at least had some practice losing body parts. Honestly, this guy is one of the weirdest in the Potterverse. I find myself trying to imagine poor IfYou’veAReadyMind!Draco in this kind of situation. (Did you know you have red eyes??!!)

*OMG, I need to get out of fandom. I read, "He felt the tip of the dagger penetrate the crook" as something altogether different. Especially the crook part.

*Has anyone explained to us why Peter went and found this baby man again? What’s in it for him, exactly? Why would he not rather just find a nice restaurant and live in the back alley off scraps?

*Robe me. I take it back, Voldemort is a big ole queen.

*Lord Voldemort had risen again. I admit that in itself didn’t seem like much of a big deal to me in reading it.

*Read over that part where Peter gets his hand cut off again. Could the set up be any better than the resolution to this storyline? People often plum forget Peter's even in DH much less that he gets killed in it.



This chapter was six and a half pages long and included bondage, blood-letting, nudity, devil babies, murder and self-amputation.

Final score: Zero

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I don’t know about you, but I think all this "bone of the father unwittingly given" stuff is just made up as they go along for dramatic effect. Voldemort’s the only one who seems to do dramatic magic. With everybody else it’s all perilously close to pig Latin.

Also: if that *was* the Ritual For Getting Your Body Back After You Have Survived Your Own Death Through The Use of Horcruxes, you'd think Dumbledore would have known about it.

And since "bone of the father" is a pretty rare commodity, and since he knew exactly who Tom Riddle's father was, couldn't they have just found Tom Senior's grave some time in - say - Harry's second year, and got rid of the damned bones. Sure there'd still be the issue of Voldemort's wacky incorporeal hijinks, but at least you've got him in a holding pattern.

So either the ritual was made up, and Pettigrew was actually just muttering "Darklordius Returnicum" under his breath the whole time, or Dumbledore was being a colossal dumbass.

...

... so I guess the ritual was probably real after all.

- Dan Hemmens

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's Dumbledore's style all right. So what would he have done if Harry died here? I admit I haven't wrapped my mind around the whole thing since DH, but as far as Dumbledore as concerned could Harry die here as easily as later on?

[lachlanm.livejournal.com]

Well, it would've taken care of the horcrux in his forehead.