Chapter Eight: Snape Victorious
In chapter eight of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Harry pokes Snape in the metaphorical eye, Tonks is moody af, and Snape’s smug goes to new heights. Or lows?
(Please be advised that this is a reread and I will be discussing book and movie spoilers.)
Tonks finds Harry frozen in his carriage with a broken face, and leads him to Hogwarts, dull and kind of morose, teasing me that Tonks will actually be interesting this book with a plot that will eventually lead to a horrible anticlimax.
Snape shows up and WOW somehow he’s worse then he’s been in ages. I don’t know how it’s possible, but it’s the truth. First he needles Tonks about her patronus being weak, which we know later on is a dig at Remus. Then he rips continuously into Harry, saying he wants attention, and refuses to fix his bloody face, before taking a ton of points from him. In short, fuck Snape for everything he chooses to be.
But first, a reward for Snape because I guess he’s bullied enough children to earn it. You see, Slughorn isn’t coming to be the Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor, but the Potions Master. And dear old Snape, a former DEATH EATER and practioner of DARK ARTS is now Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor.
I’m as grossed out as Harry at this development, but not nearly as grossed out as I am with the trio when they meet up with Hagrid…and realize none of them are taking Care of Magical Creatures anymore. For why?! With Umbridge gone, Hagrid can give good lessons again about cool things like thestrals! Look, I logically know that Hagrid was kind of a terrible professor in some ways. But this is their friend, and they don’t even tell him they aren’t continuing the subject. Maybe I find animals more interesting then the average person, but I would’ve loved to take this subject, occasional almost Death by Hagrid Monster or not.
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Why is no one looking for Harry aside from Tonks?
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