Chapter Thirty: The White Tomb
In chapter thirty of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Harry savages Rufus Scrimgeour again, I reluctantly praise Snape, and everyone shows their feelings.
(Please be advised that this is a reread and I will be discussing book and movie spoilers.)
Everyone’s gathering for the sadness of Dumbledore’s funeral, and in the spirit of generosity I’ll overlook Ginny 2.0’s insult of Fleur and move on to Hermione finding out that she was right about the Prince being a girl…well, sort of. See, Snape’s named himself after his mother, a witch named Eileen Prince, and called himself the Half-Blood Prince which fine, is kind of clever. Damn you for making me compliment you Snape!
The trio discuss Snape and I won’t touch too much on it since we know the real story but why did Snape leave his old book in the cupboard? While I’m at it, why hasn’t Snape written a book about Potions when he’s clearly more knowledgeable then a fricken book? DAMMIT SNAPE stop making me compliment you!
Some awesome people are here for the funeral like Kingsley and Mad-Eye and Madame Maxime and Mrs. Figg and ABERFORTH wooooo but somehow fucking UMBRIDGE has merited an invite. UMBRIDGE!!! Why is this bitch not jailed?!
Harry and Ron display their non toxic masculinity by showing their feelings for Dumbledore by crying from their misery, and I really want to emphasize how important it is that JKR showed young people reading this book that it’s okay that men show their emotions in public. I also love the moment that Harry tries not to laugh when he thinks about Dumbles saying “nitwit blubber oddment tweak” because it’s so human to have these odd thoughts in times of deep grief, and it’s normal, and I think Dumbles would love Harry thinking of him and laughing with joy.
Harry dumps Ginny to protect her and I totally want to talk about this, because…I think Voldemort will already find out that he was dating Ginny from say, any student that attended Hogwarts this year? Or Snape? They weren’t exactly hiding it! Also, not that I wanted Ginny 2.0 on the Horcrux trip, but I do find it fascinating that Harry never tells Ginny about the Horcruxes, never considers having her come along. I have my own thoughts on this but I’ll get to it later.
Rufus Scrimgeour tries it again with Harry at Dumbledore’s m-f-ing funeral because he’s not exactly full of class, and Harry does this:
“So,” said Scrimgeour, his voice cold now, “the request I made of you at Christmas -”
“What request? Oh yeah … the one where I tell the world what a great job you’re doing in exchange for -”
“-for raising everyone’s morale!” snapped Scrimgeour.
Harry considered him for a moment.
“Released Stan Stunpike yet?”
Scrimgeour turned a nasty purple colour highly reminiscent of Uncle Vernon.
“I see you are -”
“Dumbledore’s man through and through,” said Harry. “That’s right.”
The trio confer and Romione are like “beyotch of course we’re joining you for the Horcrux hunt” and then Ron’s all “but hey, wedding first!” because Molly will do Voldemort’s job for him and throttle Harry to death if they miss the wedding.
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