Chapter Seven: The Will of Albus Dumbledore
In chapter seven of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Harry’s been spending time in Voldemort’s head again, Mrs. Weasley gives Harry a touching birthday gift, and Scrimgeour is lucky no one clocked him in the face.
(Please be advised that this is a reread and I will be discussing book and movie spoilers.)
Harry’s wandering around LV’s head, poor guy, as it’s full of Bellatrix learning a snake dance in lingerie, while muttering “Gregorovitch” until Ron pulls him out of it. Harry’s seventeen now and his best present is a watch from Mrs. Weasley, a traditional gift to give on a seventeenth birthday to a wizard. Instead of a new watch, Mrs. Weasley’s given Harry a used watch that belonged to her murdered brother Fabian Prewett, and frankly, this is one of the nicest things Mrs. Weasleys’ ever done for Harry in a long line of nice things. A beloved item owned by your dead brother is such a kind gift, and Harry agrees and hugs Mrs. Weasley.
Ginny wants to give Harry her own present and while my friend is convinced that Ginny gave Harry more then a kiss here I’ve got to disagree. Ron and Hermione barge in on some snogging and light groping and wow that’s awkward enough.
Ron runs in to cockblock and I’m of two minds here. One, Ron’s been pressuring Ginny and Harry to date since book five, and my boy, what did you expect to come out of that? Pretty sure that means your sister is going to eventually sleep with your best friend, Ron! Should’ve thought of that sooner if it was going to bother you! On the other hand, he seems more upset that Harry’s doing this after dumping Ginny and hurting her (as Dumbledore says, #forthegreatergood) so perhaps that’s why he’s mad and nothing more.
Harry must suffer one of the worst coming of age birthdays –oh wait I forgot about Ron getting drugged and then poisoned and almost dying. Okay, a mediocre birthday let’s say! Where Remus acts all weird and depressed and Rufus Scrimgeour gate crashes to be an arse to Harry some more.
Lupin and Tonks literally jump the fence to get away and why is this visual so hilarious to me?! Just picture a shabby chic werewolf and his pink haired wife leaping over a fence while feisty garden gnomes bite at their ankles and giggle with me.
Ole Lion face, only the slimmest of improvements over Fudge has shown up to tell our trio they’ve got some items from the will of Albus Dumbledore and it’s Hermione’s turn to roast Scrimgeour with her knowledge of magical law and how he’s breaking it flagrantly and then Scrimgeour’s like ‘wow how weird that Dumbledore left your loser ass something Rupert or whatever your name is” and Ron’s like “yeah fo sho super weird, unless you count that theory that I’m a time traveling Dumbledore” while Hermione slaps duct tape on his mouth. Ron’s got the deluminator, which we’ll get to later, Hermione’s got a book of children’s stories, and Harry’s got his first snitch. On first read, I was intrigued by the weirdness of this, since it’s not at all obvious why Dumbledore has given our trio these odd objects and to what purpose. I love a good mystery!
Scrimgeour is refusing to hand over the sword of Gryffindor however, and this leads to a fight where the Minister of Magic, a grown adult, burns a hole in Hary’s shirt and tells him he wears his crown like a scar (you know, the scar he got in the murder of his parents, thanks jerkface) and on his BIRTHDAY too. Scrimegour finally leaves and Harry’s sad birthday (but probably still his best, fuck you Aunt P and Uncle V) comes to a close, and our trio discuss their gifts, before Ron points out Molly’s about to burst in and hatchet them to death if they don’t shut the fuck up and therefore ruin the wedding tomorrow and we leave the chapter wondering what Dumbles hid in that snitch.
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Would you rather have a new watch or a sentimental hand me down watch?
Why is Ron angry at Harry for kissing Ginny when he knows why Harry broke up with her?
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