Deathly Hallows, chapter 1

[anehan]

The Dark Lord Ascending

* Am I the only one who considers the Aeschylus quote rather hilarious in the context of DH? Is "the grinding scream of death" with Harry like a presence?

* Yaxley's features are blunt. All the baddies are ugly.

* If you haven't already realized it, the Death Eaters are like Nazis. Sieg Heil.

* And we arrive at Malfoy Manor. I've always imagined the Manor looking more like Avebury Manor than Burghley House. Unfortunately JKR seems to disagree with me. No doubt the Manor is decorated with bad taste.

* A meeting of the DEs? Check. Voldemort sitting on a throne? Check. A minor character to be killed? Check. What is this, a cliché parade?

* Voldemort orders Snape to sit on his right. Usually that seat is reserved for an honoured guest. Just observing.

* Poor Dawlish. He is fated to play the role of an incompetent Auror.

* Snape the Super Spy! Wheeeeeee!

* "A squat man" speaks up and giggles wheezily. I mention it in case you forgot the ugliness of the baddies.

* Note how the DE succeed in placing the Imperius Curse on an important Ministry official. And it took them only two years. I'm rather impressed. After all, the Order doesn't manage to concoct anything resembling a plan in three years.

* Poor Pius Thicknesse. Fated from birth to become a DE puppet.

* The DEs have several people planted within the Department of Magical Transport and therefore immediately know if Harry Apparates. Am I the only one who wonders how that works? Does the Department know when anyone Apparates, or just underaged wizards?

* "I shall attend to the boy in person. There have been too many mistakes where Harry Potter is concerned. Some of them have been my own. That Potter lives is due more to my errors, than to his triumphs."

Darling Voldie, how naïve you are. It's his nobility and selfless nature that have, and always will, carry him through.

* Go, Narcissa! I've always known she was the one who ruled the roost. Farewell trophy-wife!Cissy!

* Voldemort is stroking his snake. Has it, by any chance, ever entered Ginny's chamber of secrets?

* Yes, we know the Malfoys are not in Voldemort's graces. We don't need this drawn-out taunting. Oh, sorry, I forgot. There's the exposition dump on the latest news on the Tonks-Lupin courtship to be given. They are so important to the plot that even Voldemort is interested in them.

* And we come to Charity Burbage, the respected and well-known Muggle Studies teacher. No doubt you all feel her death like a presence.

* Poor Draco. At least his character development from HBP still seems to be going somewhere. Enjoy it while it lasts.



Day-for-Night:
"It was a dark and stormy night."

IITS:
So why did it take Voldemort two years to Imperio a Ministry official? IITS!

Informed Attributes:
Voldemort is scary. Death is with us like a presence.

Misdirected Answering:
Did you hear Tonks and Lupin got married?

Nut o' Fun:
Peacocks!

Final score: 5.

Comments

[anehan]

It rather feels like she was saying "look how clever I am".