Chapter Fifteen: The Goblin’s Revenge
In chapter fifteen of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Harry can’t make a Patronus, Dean is hanging out with some goblins, and Ron is as big of a mess as I am when I’m hangry.
(Please be advised that this is a reread and I will be discussing book and movie spoilers.)
Harry buries Mad-Eye’s magical eye next to a gnarly looking tree and I am touched by how perfect and thoughtful this was. Clearly someone’s been reading Twelve Fail Safe Ways to Charm Witches!
Ron’s all about a bacon sandwich, and now so am I because I’m hungry, darn it Ron, and Harry sneaks into a local village to get some food before fleeing from dementors, the locket on his chest keeping him from performing a Patronus. It’s our first indication that when you wear that Horcrux, something is going to go terribly wrong with you.
Ron’s acting like an ass about it without even wearing the locket, and I’m trying to remember how I, too, get to be a hangry asshole in about ten seconds when I’m hungry but yet Ron still annoys me here with his spoiled son diva act. Frankly, I’m surprised HermzHarr don’t snap far earlier and tell him he’s behaving like a Malfoy.
In case I wanted another round of “Harry’s right and yet no one believes him” (I DID NOT) Harry’s like hey maybe a Horcrux is at Hogwarts while everyone pooh poohs him. Sigh.
Not only is our duo doubting Harry while Ron rolls around kicking and screaming like my toddler nephew and me that he’s hungry, but he’s catching WeazGrange talking about him behind his back from time to time. This part is SO well done in the movie, the montage where our trio gets suspicious of each other. Props where props are deserved!
Ron’s bitching about the food some more when Hermione rightfully goes apeshit and tells him to do it himself next time and that’s right, it’s time for a little feminist ditty called Gone Campin’!
Oh, and Dean Thomas and Ted Tonks are hanging out with some goblins and another dude on the run in the woods ten feet away. What are the odds?!
Again, WHY did these people not flee? Why is Ted Tonks in the woods and not, say, Australia, or Fiji, or South Korea, or Rwanda, or Chile, or Alaska, or anywhere else? How is Voldemort stopping people from fleeing properly? I’m not complaining, I’m genuinely asking because this shit is impressive on LV’s part!
So we get some interesting info that the Silver trio has tried to steal the sword of Gryffindor, got caught by Snape, Snape, Severus Snape, and the sword hiding in a vault at Gringotts is a fake that Griphook is not enlightening the Death Eaters about because even goblins know how to troll.
The portrait of Phineas Nigellus accidentally confirms that Dumbles used the sword of Gryffindor to destroy the ring Horcrux, and while HSquared are celebrating all this, the Horcrux has made Ron into a giant, enormous asshole and the worst fight the trio has ever had commences, hurting our hearts.
I would definitely comment on what an ass Ron is being here but it’s clear the Horcrux is genuinely affecting his behavior, so when he attacks Harry for not knowing what he’s doing and callously says Harry doesn’t have to worry about his parents, I can’t get too mad, as I really blame Voldemort’s little trapped soul. This little soul sliver in particular is mad as hell that it’s in jewelry, clearly, and is no longer playing the charming game of the diary Horcrux. Ron’s evil twin even tries to drag Hermione into this mess, and she sides with Harry, even though we know she’s got romantic feelings for Ron, showing what a heroic ride or die our girl Hermy is once and for all, as if we ever had any doubt.
But everything sucks, because Ron leaves. Dammit Ron, Hermione was just about to conjure up a bacon sandwich!
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