Chapter Thirty-Two: The Elder Wand
In chapter thirty-two of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Percy breaks my heart, Lucius Malfoy is doing his best Reek cosplay, and Snape dies as he lived, awfully.
(Please be advised that this is a reread and I will be discussing book and movie spoilers.)
Percy is laying over Fred’s death body and refusing to move, and look this is all very sad so I’ve got to move on and mention how many times Hagrid has almost gotten everyone killed due to his creature fetish, because now the spiders are here to eat everyone.
Hermione is stopping Ron from running off with Percy to kill Death Eaters, and Harry joins them to convince Ron that he can kill the MOST Death Eaters by helping Harry with the little problem known as LV.
Lucius is Reek-ing it up in the corner
and Lord Bolton–excuse me, Voldemort—is asking for Snape because being loyal to Voldemort gets you NOTHING and why does anyone follow him why why WHY.
So the trio decide to find Voldemort and his Reek in the Shrieking Shack and run off under the cloak, seeing their classmates fighting Death Eaters and saving Malfoy’s hide again and this is so odd to me, because it’s clear that JKR was not prepared for and didn’t want Malfoy’s popularity and went out of her way this book to make him a weak willed loser who is balding 19 years later, and yet THEN greenlights the Cursed Child where D-Malfs is one of the heroes?!
Next we see that Lavender is being bitten by Greyback, the pedo werewolf, and when I read this book I thought Lavender lived through this, but the movie makes it clear that she dies, and pour one out for Lavender, who was maybe silly at times but still brave as hell.
Trelawney is bashing people in the heads with crystal balls and look, why did the movie deny me this moment of the sublime?!
Of course I have no time to bask because Hagrid has lost his everloving mind and is trying to save the evil, murdering Death Eater affiliated spiders and has gotten carried away by them into the forest wtf. Grawp is as appalled as I am, and starts after Hagrid then gets distracted and wrestles with an evil giant and gosh, glad we got that long giant subplot for this moment where two giants wrestle as payoff!
The dementors come and Harry can’t conjure StagJames, the Patronus, and can anyone blame him at this point? Luckily Seamus, Luna, and Ernie are there to be totally awesome and let’s not forget, wouldn’t be able to make Patronus’s without Harry, who wouldn’t have been able to make a Patronus without REMUS LUPIN, my king.
So the trio make their way to the Shrieking Shack just in time to witness Snape take up Lucius’s song and dance, entitled “My Lord, Let Me Find the Boy (Harry Potter)” a slow ballad that’s accompanied by a little jig, and Voldemort Simon Cowell’s at this rendition as well and then gets so offended by Snape’s singing voice that he has Nagini kill Snape. Or y’know, it’s for the power of the Elder Wand. One of the two!
Snape dies and has a touching moment with Harry where he looks into his eyes and thinks of Lily and this would be sweeter if we don’t see next chapter how Snape was a stalker who can’t take a hint. YES I SAID IT.
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