Chapter Six: The Ghoul in Pajamas
In chapter six of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Harry, Ron, and Hermione are treated like house elves, Hermione reveals that she violated her parents minds, and will someone please slip a valium in Mrs. Weasley’s tea?
(Please be advised that this is a reread and I will be discussing book and movie spoilers.)
Mrs. Weasley has got to hurt me one last time in our story by being insufferable about our trio leaving school on their secret Dumbledore mission by constantly separating them and forcing them to do hours of manual labor for Fleur’s wedding and Molly, I get it’s your kid and surrogate kid and that girl you go back and forth on about how much you like her and you don’t even know why they are dropping out but you have to accept that they are all legally adults in the wizarding world and have something important to do.
No one can find Mad-Eye’s body which is super sad and fucked up and adding to that, the Prophet is totally hiding his death and Charity Burbage’s mysterious disappearance.
Time for a musical interlude soundtrack to this chapter!
Molly tries to use the trio as slave labor some more for the wedding and when they meet up to discuss the plan Harry attempts to talk them out of joining him. Much like Frodo with Sam, this is a terrible idea which will lead to Harry failing and dying in two seconds, just like Frodo would’ve. #JusticeforSam
The poor, long suffering and constantly neglected Grangers have been Obliviated and sent to live in Australia, you see, with no memory of their daughter to protect them from Death Eaters. Y’all let’s talk about this, because this is MESSED UP. On one hand, Hermione is right to protect her parents. But she’s also very, very wrong. She’s taken away all autonomy from her parents, messed with their minds against their will, and made it so they potentially never remember their daughter, whom they love. I feel like she should’ve at least had a discussion with her parents and given them a choice. Put them under a Fidelius charm so the Grangers are still themselves, but protected. I dunno, I think this is another example of a wizard controlling Muggles because of what they think is best, and it makes me uncomfortable. Ron’s plan is significantly less alarming: he’s turned the family ghoul into Ron Weasley with spattergroit, unable to attend Hogwarts due to the unfortunate fact that wizards haven’t invented a chickenpox vaccine.
Our trio discuss their plans and RAB and how to destroy a Horcrux but let’s fast forward that and get to the part where Mrs. Weasley crashes in their room (Molly, girl, teenage boys with a closed door, don’t open so abruptly unless you want your retinas permanently burned!) and acts super ungrateful for all the help our trio has already done for the wedding that isn’t even theirs and demands yet more help in the tones of Smaug trying to attack a Hobbit. Someone give Molly some alcohol, stat! A cheering charm! A massage! Something!
The Delacours show up and Ginny 2.0 acts jealous of an eleven year old girl (sigh Ginny why must you suck, Harry isn’t a damn pervert interested in a little girl) and Mrs. Weasley gets back in my good graces by planning with Harry his coming of age birthday party.
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