Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Lost Diadem
In chapter twenty-nine of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Harry and co find out that the Hogwarts students have been living in a hell worse then Umbridge’s pink demonic kittens and Luna gives Harry a lead on the last Horcrux.
(Please be advised that this is a reread and I will be discussing book and movie spoilers.)
Movie!Neville has gone full Longbottom but our Book!Neville is a bit worse for the wear, since Hogwarts under Lord V’s puppet Snape means teachers just like…beat the students…and everyone’s…okay with that…?
Neville leads the trio into a secret passage neither the twins or the Marauders ever knew about from the Hog’s Head and maybe I’m a total weirdo (I am) but I am kind of sad that there are maybe no more secret secret passageways after this year at Hogwarts.
So our man Longbottom is filling the trio in on the dystopian hellscape that is Hogwarts now, where thoughts of Umbridge are met with a yawn because the new teachers are so terrible. We get more tantalizing tidbits about what’s going on at Hellwarts this year and I weep afresh that we don’t have a side book on this mess! Dammit I want Sassy!Neville telling the Carrows off!
Gran Longbottom is on the run like the badass she is, and we find out everyone awesome is camping out in the Room of Requirement hiding from the evil teachers and wtf I know Voldemort is powerful but how are so many parents just letting this happen?!
So our trio has the awkward “it’s not me, it’s you” talk with everyone when Neville’s like “so hey the golden trio is here to save the day everyone and help us fight” and Harry’s like “errrr not so much guys I’m here to stab something shiny and dip,” and then Luna, Dean, the younger Weasleys, Lee, and Cho Chang, (who I will defend to the end as given a raw deal) arrive to help fight evil and FUCK YES HERE WE GO, Y’ALL.
Ron says the smartest thing he’s said all book and points out everyone can help and they don’t have to act like weirdo Dumbledore who trusts no one and hides everything like a paranoid freak.
Harry listens and Luna conveniently remembers the lost diadem of Ravenclaw and maybe now is the time for a tiny rant about one of my problems with this book: we get a portion of book six and a huge portion of book seven hunting down ONE singular Horcrux in the locket, and then the ending of this book is way too rushed finding and destroying the rest of the Horcruxes. It’s almost like JKR started writing on the pace of George R.R. Martin and ended it Stephen King style, and while I adore both of those authors their style is completely different and it’s a little jarring to me.
Ginny 2.0 hasn’t irritated me in a while so she pops her head up to get jealous Cho offering to show Harry Ravenclaw tower and
COME ON, Ginny! First Fleur, then Gabrielle, then Cho?! Jealousy isn’t relationship goals, girl!
So Luna shows Harry the Ravenclaw common room which sounds glorious and gorgeous and again, yeah Slytherin is the house of evil and all but their common room is a underground dungeon lake thing and the Ravenclaws get a sky palace?!
Apparently the Ravenclaws must answer a riddle to get into their common room and alright I’m over wanting to be in Ravenclaw. Give me Gryffindor tower or bust!
Also, Gryffindor tower doesn’t have the added flaw of Alecto Carrow waiting there to trap you and hand you over to Voldemort, so win win.
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