DH:27 - The Final Hiding Place (Bloomsbury 2007)
Italics are impressions from my first read, when I did not yet know what was going to happen.
1) They're riding a frickin' DRAGON! Harry's worried about them plummeting to their deaths, and with good cause. Wouldn't it be funny if Jo decided to end the series with that? :p Ron is swearing loudly and continually, and Hermione is sobbing. She is really not a fan of the flying, is she?
2) Soon Voldemort will know what they are doing. Time is short, and so are the next few chapters. We must now officially be in the run-up to the climax of this book.
3) "three highly edible humans..." *giggle* Oh, that crazy Jo! She sure knows how to turn a phrase.
4) Hermione's Bag of Awesome is apparently waterproof as well. Excellent. That girl really did think of everything. And now the trio are stripping again to change into clean, dry, non-burned robes. Has anyone been keeping track of how many times Harry gets nekkid in this book?
5) It will be rather hard to keep the Gringotts break-in out of the news, I would think. And it will be fantastic for morale when people hear about it. Breaking into Gringotts is supposed to be almost impossible, but Harry Potter and his friends went and did it, even if people have no idea why their hero has suddenly turned to bank robbery. If he can break into Gringotts, maybe he can save the world as well.
6) Voldemort is killing minions again. Come on, Voldie; this is really bad for morale. Apparently he killed everyone in the room, but Bellatrix and Lucius got out okay. I wonder how many people died? It seems he is able to use the Elder Wand, even though he did not win it properly.
7) Voldemort wonders if Harry knows about the other Horcruxes. Surely if he is a smart Evil Wizard, he knows that now is the time to exploit his connection to Harry and pick his brain for details. That's what I'd do, anyway....
8) Hogwarts. "He alone had plumbed the deepest secrets of that place." Arrogance and bullshit. Now Harry knows where the final Horcrux is, and it turns out he was right all along. And so was I! I know what it is and where it is, which Harry doesn't yet. It seems they must finish this at Hogwarts. And Harry has a certain Highly Useful map. I wonder if it would show a Horcrux?
9) The locket. You know, it's a shame that Voldemort will never know that it was not wise old Albus Dumbledore who bested him here, but a brave and kind-hearted boy named Regulus Black. *hugs Regs*
10) Nagini is, in fact, a Horcrux. Dammit! I was so hoping that I could be right about something that Dumbledore himself missed, but I guess not. I still think it's a stupid idea to make a Horcrux out of something that will eventually die of natural causes.
11) Here we go... They're off to Hogsmeade this time without making a plan. Somehow, I like this better than their crappy Ministry and Gringotts plans.
1) They're riding a frickin' DRAGON! Harry's worried about them plummeting to their deaths, and with good cause. Wouldn't it be funny if Jo decided to end the series with that? :p Ron is swearing loudly and continually, and Hermione is sobbing. She is really not a fan of the flying, is she?
2) Soon Voldemort will know what they are doing. Time is short, and so are the next few chapters. We must now officially be in the run-up to the climax of this book.
3) "three highly edible humans..." *giggle* Oh, that crazy Jo! She sure knows how to turn a phrase.
4) Hermione's Bag of Awesome is apparently waterproof as well. Excellent. That girl really did think of everything. And now the trio are stripping again to change into clean, dry, non-burned robes. Has anyone been keeping track of how many times Harry gets nekkid in this book?
5) It will be rather hard to keep the Gringotts break-in out of the news, I would think. And it will be fantastic for morale when people hear about it. Breaking into Gringotts is supposed to be almost impossible, but Harry Potter and his friends went and did it, even if people have no idea why their hero has suddenly turned to bank robbery. If he can break into Gringotts, maybe he can save the world as well.
6) Voldemort is killing minions again. Come on, Voldie; this is really bad for morale. Apparently he killed everyone in the room, but Bellatrix and Lucius got out okay. I wonder how many people died? It seems he is able to use the Elder Wand, even though he did not win it properly.
7) Voldemort wonders if Harry knows about the other Horcruxes. Surely if he is a smart Evil Wizard, he knows that now is the time to exploit his connection to Harry and pick his brain for details. That's what I'd do, anyway....
8) Hogwarts. "He alone had plumbed the deepest secrets of that place." Arrogance and bullshit. Now Harry knows where the final Horcrux is, and it turns out he was right all along. And so was I! I know what it is and where it is, which Harry doesn't yet. It seems they must finish this at Hogwarts. And Harry has a certain Highly Useful map. I wonder if it would show a Horcrux?
9) The locket. You know, it's a shame that Voldemort will never know that it was not wise old Albus Dumbledore who bested him here, but a brave and kind-hearted boy named Regulus Black. *hugs Regs*
10) Nagini is, in fact, a Horcrux. Dammit! I was so hoping that I could be right about something that Dumbledore himself missed, but I guess not. I still think it's a stupid idea to make a Horcrux out of something that will eventually die of natural causes.
11) Here we go... They're off to Hogsmeade this time without making a plan. Somehow, I like this better than their crappy Ministry and Gringotts plans.