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Study questions are meant to be left for each student to answer; please don't answer them here. All around, his friends are engaged in intense battles for their lives.
As the battle erupts again, the Death Eaters, retreating from the new threat that now includes Thestrals and Buckbeak, enter the castle. Harry's decision to secretly return the Elder Wand to Dumbledore's tomb poses an interesting problem; it is never specified just how the tomb will be protected from some other Dark wizard.
Seeing that James, Lily, Sirius, and Lupin have a serene and happy existence, Harry is content, knowing they will someday be reunited. While both loved and admired Harry and believed he would be a caring and responsible godfather, they also knew that his own experience growing up without his mother and father would enable him to guide and mentor young Teddy in a way few others could.
He's going to keep the Cloak, which is his birthright.
They circle each other warily. I mean, I’m right now just sitting in my comfortable desk chair in my comfortable office and I CAN’T STOP FIDGETING.
CHAPTER 36: THE FLAW IN THE PLAN Harry awakens on the Forbidden Forest floor and shows a whole lot more physical self control than I’d ever be able to muster myself. All Hogwarts students will be Slytherins from now on.
Voldemort (unknowingly) slayed the soul shard within Harry with his own deadly curse, and Ravenclaw's Diadem was scorched by the Fiendfyre that Crabbe conjured. I’m little; there’s no way I’d get out of that without being trampled to death. Harry then uses the Elder Wand to repair his own broken wand. And while Harry accepts that the people and things he has loved and lost can never truly be retrieved with or without magic, there is one exception: his wand. Hagrid, as he passes the watching Centaurs, accuses them of sitting idly by and letting evil win. and N.E.W.T.
Several things happen simultaneously. The three of them go in, and Harry is greeted with thunderous applause from all of the portraits of the past Headmasters and Headmistresses of Hogwarts. Dumbledore nods his approval. Because if it is, I think I just solved David Blaine.
I mean, I’m right now just sitting in my comfortable desk chair in my comfortable office and I CAN’T STOP FIDGETING. Also, Hogwarts' House-elves, who Ron wanted to protect before the battle, show that wizards' underestimation of them is incorrect: rather than cowering with fear, as most wizards would probably expect, the Elves strike at the Death Eaters.
Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Because yeah, read the goddamned books. Voldemort is simultaneously dueling McGonagall, Slughorn, and Kingsley. He entices Neville, a pureblood, to join him. Since Dumbledore willingly submitted to death at Snape's hand, Snape wasn't actually the last master of the Elder Wand – Draco Malfoy, who Disarmed Dumbledore atop the Astronomy Tower that fatal night, was. As Voldemort turns to Molly, Harry casts a shield charm between them, then pulls off his Invisibility Cloak, revealing himself to the audibly stunned crowd. From Wikibooks, open books for an open world, https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Muggles%27_Guide_to_Harry_Potter/Books/Deathly_Hallows/Chapter_36&oldid=3379125, Book:Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Deathly Hallows.
The Centaurs, ending their neutrality, charge the Death Eaters. Without adequate protections, the wand could once again be retrieved from Dumbledore's tomb. It looks like basically all the families and friends of Hogwarts have come back to defend their school, and the freedom of the wizarding world. The Deathly Hallows, and the Harry Potter series more generally, isn't overtly sexist, but you can catch whiffs of sexism here and there. If any reader still believes after Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows that Neville Longbottom should have been sorted into Hufflepuff House rather than Gryffindor, they need only to remember Dumbledore's words to Harry in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets that, "only a true Gryffindor could pull that (the Sword of Gryffindor) out of the Hat".
With all his Horcruxes destroyed, Voldemort dies instantly. Voldemort is right at the middle of the fray, and Harry heads toward him.
Voldemort taunts Harry, saying that he's only alive because a series of better men and women got him there by sacrificing themselves. This became evident when all the charms, hexes, and curses that Voldemort and his followers were hurling in the final battle seemed remarkably ineffective. So, Harry uses this latest EPIC distraction to un-disappear, and the crowd goes wild!
By rights, then, since he Disarmed its last master, the Elder Wand is, Voldemort and Harry face off one last time, and shoot their trademark spells at one another – Voldemort screams.
Voldemort turns his attention to Neville, saying that a pureblood that brave will make a good Death Eater. and productive life, despite it being tinged with lingering sadness.
He jams the hat onto Neville's head, then sets it on fire. But Harry only has eyes for Dumbledore's portrait.
Now, as it had earlier with Harry, the Sorting Hat presents the blade to Neville, among the worthiest of Gryffindors, who beheads Nagini, the final Horcrux, thus allowing Voldemort to be slain by his own evil hand. He will keep the Invisibility Cloak as a family heirloom, and the Elder Wand will be secretly returned to Dumbledore's tomb in hopes that the wand's power will eventually die with Harry. He tells Dumbledore that he left the Resurrection Stone in some unknown place in the Forest, wherever it was dropped, and that nobody else knows about it. Why does Narcissa Malfoy inform Voldemort that Harry is dead, knowing he is alive? I now cringe-vomit any time I see anything “Keep Calm” related. Even Harry's enemies unintentionally helped. Grawp reappears around the corner, headed for Hagrid. Some readers, like Ron, may disagree with Harry's decision to return the Elder Wand to Dumbledore's tomb, but Harry realizes that it is too powerful and coveted a weapon for him to safely wield. Harry explains the truth about Snape's allegiance to Dumbledore, and the truth about Dumbledore's death.
New content will be added above the current area of focus upon selection I mean, come on. Harry tells Dumbledore's portrait that he will never search for the dropped Resurrection Stone in the Forbidden Forest.
Voldemort addresses the crowd, saying that Harry was a coward who tried to flee and turn away from his friends. This page was last edited on 28 February 2018, at 00:34.
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Voldemort orders his followers to come with him to the castle. Harry passes Ginny and Mrs. Weasley, as well as the three Malfoys, huddled together – there are reunited families everywhere. Voldemort, his voice amplified again, announces that Harry is dead, and that he was killed trying to escape the battle.
Harry, hiding himself under his Invisibility Cloak, leaps up and casts a Shield Charm between Voldemort and Neville.
If it should ever become openly known that he commands the wand, he would need to be constantly vigilant against potential attackers seeking it, who would need only to disarm him during a single, unguarded moment. How is Molly Weasley able to defeat Bellatrix Lestrange, an extremely powerful and evil witch? One of my absolute biggest pet peeves with the movies (and I have A LOT) was that they never showed Harry fixing his wand with the Elder Wand.
Yes! As the Death Eaters reach the castle with Harry's "dead" body, he hears the anguished screams of those he loves – Professor McGonagall, Ron, Hermione, Ginny. Harry whispers, "Yes"; Narcissa, knowing she can only enter the castle with the conquering Death Eaters, lies and pronounces Harry dead.
If so, how?
Also, Voldemort's tossing Harry about with the Cruciatus curse without it inflicting any pain is a subtle clue to readers that the Elder Wand's allegiance belongs to Harry— it will not harm its true master. Voldemort's fury over losing his most devoted follower blasts McGonagall, Kingsley, and Slughorn backwards. Why does Harry choose his signature Expelliarmus disarming spell rather than another curse to attack Voldemort in their final duel? Voldemort summons the Sorting Hat from the Headmaster's office and places it on Neville's head, setting it afire. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. But Voldemort's killing curse rebounds, reflected by Harry's blood protection and the Elder Wand's allegiance to him, while Harry's Disarming charm wrenches the Elder Wand from Voldemort's hand to his. He has a quiet word with Narcissa Malfoy, gets Cruciatus-ed like a flipping piñata, hauled off by a sobbing half-giant, and displayed on the Hogwarts lawn in front of the people he loves, all while convincing everyone around him that he’s dead.
Ultimately, each soul shard was slain by a different person: Dumbledore destroyed Gaunt's Ring; Slytherin's Locket was impaled by Ron; Hermione shattered Hufflepuff's Cup; and Neville beheaded Nagini. And then it’s all Exposition City, Population: Harry.
He tells Voldemort that there's a lot to be understood…. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling brought to you by Dark Miasma Special Thanks to the DSB release. Harry warns everyone to stay back - the battle is between him and Voldemort now. And I have no problem admitting that I did not completely understand his explanation of the titular “flaw in the plan” the first time I read this. In this, they are led by Kreacher, a character who started the series as a spiteful, hateful House-elf opposing the Order of the Phoenix and despising Harry, but was eventually won over by Harry's respect and kindness, which Kreacher returned to him as loyalty and gratitude. The Tales of Beedle the Bard: These Tales Are for CHILDREN!? And even though it seems Voldemort closed off the trail by killing most who knew it existed, another Dark wizard could possibly retrace that path. Harry has also learned that death, grief, and loss are essential and inevitable parts of living; escaping them is impossible, and confronting them only makes one stronger. Both Harry and Teddy having lost their parents to Voldemort, and Lupin and James Potter once being close and loyal friends will probably create a particularly strong bond between godfather and godson, much like Harry shared with Sirius Black.
The Dark Lord announces that Hogwarts will be united under a single house, Slytherin. Harry awakens on the Forbidden Forest floor and shows a whole lot more physical self control than I’d ever be able to muster myself. What will prevent the wand from being stolen from Dumbledore's tomb?