Deathly Hallows, chapter 4

[anehan]

The Seven Potters

* Hedwig is sulking. Even she understands how stupid it is of Harry to lock her in her cage.

* Lupin is "greyer, more lined". In every book, Lupin looks worse and worse. I swear, he should have wasted away years ago.

* According to Kingsley, Harry is more important than the Muggle Prime Minister. Too bad we haven't seen Harry do anything to demonstrate this to us. As it is, I remain sceptical.

* Harry can't be Flooed, Portkey'd or Apparated out of 4 Privet Drive. So take him to Mrs Figg's and Apparate him away.

* The Trace. I think I've said all there is to say about it in the previous cap. The bloody thing makes no sense.

* "With You-Know-Who out there and half the Ministry on his side?" My, Voldemort has been busy. He's done more during this summer than in the previous two years together.

* According to Moody, Voldemort is bound to have a Death Eater or two on the lookout. Tell me again, why didn't he do that in the previous two years? Kidnap Harry in OotP and save us the tedium of reading through HBP and DH.

* Harry's Polyjuice Potion is a clear, bright gold. Remember the muddiness of Crabbe's and Goyle's? They were evil already at the age of 12. Remember, it's your choices that... Wait a minute, what am I saying? Some people are born good and some people evil.

* Good thing we have the Polyjuice Potion tell us about Harry's goodness. Otherwise we might have had some doubts, what we the Unforgivables an all that.

* Notice that Fleur doesn't change size when she drinks Harry!Juice. Just observing.

* "Bill, don't look at me -- I'm 'ideous." Ahahahahaaaa!

* Six naked Potters. *leers*

* Fleur give Bill a soppy, slavish look. It's the same look that's glued on Ginny's face when she looks at Harry.

* Moody won't lock the back door, since it won't keep the Death Eaters away. Maybe not, but at least it'll keep the neighbourhood children from ransacking the house while the Dursleys are away. Dear me, what am I talking about? No one cares about the Dursleys' property. They're just dirty Muggles.

* Why aren't the Potters and their guards Disillusioned? Quite aside from the fact that Muggles can now see them flying, why are they making the Death Eaters' job easier? Logic, what Logic.

* Hedwig died. Cheap, Rowling, cheap.

* Harry is doing magic willy-nilly. Whatever happened to the Trace?

* What is dragon fire and why haven't we hear of it before?

* Stan Shunpike's face is strangely blank. Maybe it's supposed to tell us that Stan is Imperio'd, but why would the Death Eaters take an Imperio'd person with them to such a delicate mission? I much prefer to think that Stan really is a DE.

* I don't get why the DE would think Harry's the only one who'd use Expelliarmus against them. Surely it's not that obscure a charm, considering that it was the first charm the students were taught in the Duelling Club in CoS. It doesn't make sense.

* Oh dear, here we have the incident of Harry's wand acting of its own accord. More things that don't make sense.

* Well, that was boring.



Designated Hero:
Harry's Polyjuice Potion reveals his essential goodness.

Hero's Death Battle Exemption:
The Killing Curses miss Harry by millimetres.

IITS:
Why can't Harry be Apparated away? IITS!

Final score: 3

Comments

[jodel-from-aol.livejournal.com]

We are told here that if he Apparates the Ministry would "have him" and yet Lupin assures us (7 chapters later) that the only way to track an Apparation is to grab hold of the person Apparating.

Ergo: this whole "dramatic" escape is completely, totally, pointless.

I must say that the DH Sporking Community's take on this pile of drek last year pointed out some real gems. Like the Order members showing up all disillusioned (even though Hagrid was on the motorcycle which was roaring just like a motorcycle) and then un-disillusioning themselves in the garden rather than waiting until they got into the house. And Moody, the paranoid champion of Constant Vigilance shouting out that they'd see them all at the Burrow in an hour, after they *left* the house.

Plus, we now have Voldemort flying about unassisted, like superman.

I actually worked out a mini-theory about the wand going on autopilot: Voldemort was using Lucius's wand. It's an unfamilar one for him so he was trying just a bit too hard, calling up *all* of his available magic to send through it.

Well, there was a bit of his magic stuck in Harry's wand ever since the end of GoF, and it was close enough in proximity for that bit to come too. If Harry hadn't kept a grip on it, Tom would have gotten his wand off him, too.

Unfortunately since this silly exchange is clearly what reset the mental connection from Tom>Harry to Harry>Tom there probably wasn't any way of doing without it. But I still think that the shift could have been managed some other way. A way that *didn't* raise questions of how Voldemort kept on flying after the wand shattered...

[fraught.livejournal.com]

I must say that the DH Sporking Community's take on this pile of drek last year...

Where is this comm? Sounds like fun!

[guardians-song.livejournal.com]

deadlyhollow

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Thank you :)

[anehan]

This whole book is a true mocker's dream. That is, if the mocker doesn't die from boredom first.