Back To Hogwarts

i realize that probably ZERO percent of my followers even care about this silly little blog anymore but I just wanted to come on here to say hi. im back. i understand im about a year and a half late. but hey shit happens.

like i said, i doubt anyone is following along anymore and gives a shit but its just bugging me and id like to finish the series off totally complete. just to sleep at night, ya know. or maybe because i actuallly enjoy looking back at my own posts and its pissing me off that i never finished deathly hallows.

sorry for the delay on chapters but ya know, LIFE.

for those of you who care, im doing the disney college program!!!!! aka im working a shit ton of hours in a new place so ive been super busy the past few weeks hence no new chapters BUT i s2g they are coming so dont forget about me and my lil ol blog!!!!!

MAGIC!!!! enjoy so much~ ugh im so jealous youre watching for the first time i wish i could go back

- the first sentence of this chapter is harry burying mad-eyes eyeball. so. if thats any indication of how im doing

Yesterday seemed a long time ago: Today he might have been thirteen years old again, the only one who collapsed on the Hogwarts Express. 

yall this REALLY hurt my heart and i dont know why this in particular made me want to curl up and cry and hug harry

- the trio is HANGRY and its making the situations v tense. someone get ron a sandwich or something 

- lol seriously tho since this is in harry is NOT having it with ron on this camping trip and rn its kinda funny but i know later im going to be crying over it so

“Yeah, his school! It was his first real home, the place that meant he was special; it meant everything to him, and even after he left -” “This is You-Know-Who we’re talking about, right? Not you?” inquired Ron. He was tugging at the chain of the Horcrux around his neck: Harry was visited by a desire to seize it and throttle him.

hahahahahah like its not funny...but im sorry COME ON  ron is so right in this case

- GOBLINS R HERE YALL

- OMG AND TED TONKS AND DEAN THOMAS!?!?! i dont remember this AT ALL wtf its been a hot second since i read this book bear with me

“Dean and I are still missing something here,” said Ted. “So is Severus Snape, though he does not know it,” said Griphook, and the two goblins roared with malicious laughter.

MALICIOUS LAUGHTER is me af

Harry closed his eyes, willing someone to ask the question he needed answered, and after a minute that seemed ten, Dean obliged; he was (Harry remembered with a jolt) an ex-boyfriend of Ginny’s too.

lol as if harry just FORGOT after he spent a whole year with a fucking weird ass jealousy “monster” inside him 

“I know Harry Potter,” said Dean. “And I reckon he’s the real thing - the Chosen One, or whatever you want to call it.”

:’)

- just sidenote: this dirk guy seems like a grad A asshole 

A black blindfold appeared over Phineas Nigellus’s clever, dark eyes, causing him to bump into the frame and shriek with pain. “What - how dare - what are you -?” “I’m very sorry, Professor Black,” said Hermione, “but it’s a necessary precaution!” “Remove this foul addition at once! Remove it, I say! You are ruining a great work of art! Where am I? What is going on?”

hahahah i fucking love phineas. also nice humble brag there, calling himself a ‘great work of art’

- LOL ginny/neville/luna were punished for trying to steal the sword by being ‘forced’ to hang out with hagrid in the forbidden forest. sounds like a fun saturday night to me

- uh oh yall. THE ron vs harry fight is about to happen and im not ready. I THOUGHT WE HAD MORE TIME

“So what part of it isn’t living up to your expectations?” asked Harry. Anger was coming to his defense now. “Did you think we’d be staying in fire star hotels? Finding a Horcrux every other day? Did you think you’d be back to Mummy by Christmas?” “We thought you knew what you were doing!” shouted Ron, standing up, and his words pierced Harry like scalding knives. “We thought Dumbledore had told you what to do, we thought you had a real plan!”

1. ok harrys being a total dickwad and im NOT here for it 2. ron kinda has a point; like harry never told them ANYTHING he just kept being like ‘dont come with me its dangerous~’ but not any specifics

- YIKES ron calls harry “Harry ‘I’ve faced worse’ Potter” and that one hurt DEEP yall

“I get it. You choose him.” “Ron, no - please - come back, come back!” She was impeded by her own Shield Char; by the time she had removed it he had already stormed ino the night. Harry stood quite still and silent, listening to her sobbing and calling Ron’s name amongst the trees.  After a few minutes she returned, her sopping hair plastered to her face. “He’s g-g-gone! Disapparated!” She threw herself into a chair, curled up, and started to cry.

me too, hermione. me too. 

so when we left off, the trio had a MESSY time at the ministry and apparated ~somewhere~ so LETS GO

Harry’s first thought was of the Forbidden Forest, and for a moment, even though he knew how foolish and dangerous it would be for them to appear in the grounds of Hogwarts, his heart leapt at the thought of sneaking through the trees to Hagrid’s hut. 

wow how you gonna do this to me on the FIRST DAMN PAGE jkr? i miss hagrid and hogwarts

- ugh i knew it was coming but still reading the description of ron being splinched makes my heart hurt

With a twinge of regret that had nothing to do with food, Harry imagined the house-elf busying himself over the steak-and-kidney pie that Harry, Ron, and Hermione would never eat.

I FEEL MORE THAN A TWINGE OF REGRET HARRY. POOR BABY KREACHER

“Don’t say the name!” Ron cut across her, his voice harsh. Harry and Hermione looked at each other. “I’m sorry,” Ron said, moaning a little as he raised himself to look at them, “but it feels like a - a jinx or something. Can’t we call him You-Know-Who - please?”

i meeeeeeeannn...... HE AINT WRONG THO 

Hermione was watching Ron fret over the fate of the Cattermoles, and there was such tenderness in her expression that Harry felt almost as if he ahd surprised her in the act of kissing him.

this makes me squeal!!!!!! romione forever bitches (also i love that ron is so worried about the cattermoles even after he was just MAIMED)

- interesting to note here that ron is the first one to notice how the horcrux changes the way you feel when holding it. i think it shows how much more he’s affected by it than the others

- omg harry keeps thinking about kreacher and im CRYING 

- gregorovitch is dead btw 

The theft had happened many years ago, according to Gregorovitch. Why did the young thief look familiar?

hmmm maybe because he was the boyfriend of your BIGGEST IDOL AND MENTOR ????? idk tho

- lol harry describes grindelwald as  ‘fred and george-ish’ 

They had concentrated all their efforts on getting inside without being detected: They had not given a moment’s thought to what they would do if they were forced to separate.

are u kidding me??? these children i swear to g

- also can we talk about how the term ‘blood traitor’ actually sounds pretty dope?

“Mudbloods and the Dangers They Pose to a Peaceful Pure-Blood Society”

mom can you come get me? im scared

Where there might have been a peephole on a Muggle front door, a large, round eye with a bright blue iris had been set into the wood - an eye that was shockingly familiar to anybody who had known Alastor Moody. 

BITCH WHAT THE FUQ why is this woman the LITERAL devil on earth

- update: the bish still has terrible taste in home decor 

He saw a poster of himself on the wall, with the words UNDESIRABLE NO. 1 emblazoned across his chest.

like ok ya that sucks and all but its also pretty BAD ASS. 

- harrys looking at an old pic of dumbledore and grindelwald and lemme just point this out that they sound HOT AF. young albus and gellert could get it

- omg this is heartbreaking; disguised ron and harry are in the elevator with mr weasley and they cant say anything but i just want them all to hug 

- WHOA I forgot there was a percy sighting in the elevator too!!!!! the whole gangs here

The dark passage outside the courtrooms was packed with tall, black-hooded figures, their faces completely hidden, their ragged breathing the only sound in the place. 

THIS IS TERRIFYING AND I HATE IT

He forced himself to think of Hermione and of Ron, who needed him.

:’) bb

- umbridge is out here threatening everyone with a dementors kiss like????? bish what happened to only like horrible murders in azkaban getting that? now everybody gets it?????????

“Could you please tell us from which witch or wizard you took that wand?” “T-took?” sobbed Mrs. Cattermole. “I didn’t t-take it from anybody. I b-bought it when I was eleven years old. It - it - it - chose me.”

fucking hurts my heart to read that. this part always makes me cry a lil in the movie

It was Umbridge’s lie that brought the blood surging into Harry’s brain and obliterated his sense of caution - that the locket she had taken as a bribe from a petty criminal was being used to bolster her own pure-blood credentials. He raised his wand, not even troubling to keep it concealed beneath the Invisibility Cloak , and said, “Stupefy!”

BOIIIIII ME TOO TF!!!!! YES harry this is the time to be stupid!!!! i approve!!!!

“Expec - Expecto patronum,” said Hermione. Nothing happened. “It’s the only spell she ever has trouble with,” Harry told a completely bemused Mrs. Cattermole. “Bit unfortunate, really...

lol harry now is NOT the time 

“Why are you so wet?” “Water,” muttered Ron

i s2g these boys are trying to pull out the savagery at the WRONG TIME

- god damn this chapter makes me STRESSED

The only solid things in the world were Ron’s arm and Hermione’s fingers, which were slowly slipping away... And then he saw the door of number twelve, Grimmauld Place, with its serpent door knocker, but before he could draw breath, there was a scream and a flash of purple light; Hermione’s hand was suddenly vicelike upon his and everything went dark again. 

remember reading this for the first time and being SHOOK to the core. still kinda am. 

SORRY YALL i was on vacay and then immediately got sick as soon as i came home LOL anyways back to your regularly scheduled silly hp rereads

- so basically the square outside of grimmauld place is filled with weirdo STALKERS and like no one even cares??? wouldnt muggles have called the cops on these death eater guys by now?

Nothing in the room, however, was more dramatically different than the house-elf who now came hurrying toward Harry, dressed in a snowy-white towel, his ear hair as clean and fluffy as cotton wool, Regulus’s locket bouncing on his thin chest.

IM SO HAPPY MY BB KREACHER IS HAPPY

- SEVERUS SNAPE IS THE NEW HOGWARTS HEADMASTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.

“Snape, headmaster! Snape in Dumbledore’s study - Merlin’s pants!” she shrieked, making both Harry and Ron jump. She leapt up from the table and hurtled from the room shouting as she went, “I’ll be back in a minute!” “‘Merlin’s pants’?” repeated Ron, looking amused. “She must be upset.”

lol why is this the cutest/funniest thing 

- aw the kids are thinking about how the hogwarts express just left and theyre not on it :’( theyre sad and im sad

- so like i get hermiones logic in trying to blind phineas nigellus but instead of putting his ENITRE PORTRAIT in her handbag why not just...idk turn the picture around???? am i crazy or

- blah blah blah hermione yelling at harry to use occlumency, harry ignoring her blah blah blah read it yourself if you want to hear about gregorovitch

- i feel very anxious reading about this ministry plan. IT ALL HAPPENED SO FAST like it feels like this chapter just started and now theyre about to stun a ministry worker and steal her identity?!?! yall wild

“Forcing us all to get to work this way! Who are they expecting to turn up, Harry Potter?” The wizard roared with laughter at his own wit. Ron gave a forced chuckle.

L O fucking L

Hundreds and hundreds of naked bodies, men, women, and children, all with rather stupid, ugly faces, twisted and pressed together to support the weight of the handsomely robed wizards. “Muggles,” whispered Hermione, “In their rightful place.”

this is seriously gross. and also a big FECK U to people who say harry potter is a childrens book without an important message

- EW UMBRIDGE IS HERE YALL 

- ok i forgot that you can transfigure FOOD like.... you only have pickles in your fridge? no problem lemme transfigure that into A WHOLE TURKEY. world hunger best not be a problem in the wizarding world, and if it is i got QUESTIONS.

- grimmauld place is TENSE yall but hey at least remus is here now!!!!!!!!!

“We wondered,” said Hermione tentatively, “whether Harry could still have the Trace on him?” “Impossible,” said Lupin. Ron looked smug, and Harry felt hugely relieved. “Apart from anything else, they’d know for sure Harry was here if he still had the Trace on him, wouldn’t they?”

i forget but is it because of the taboo on voldemorts name?? SOME DM ME AND ANSWER ME

“Arthur heard a rumor that they tried to torture your whereabouts out of Scrimgeour before they killed him; if it’s true, he didn’t give you away.” Harry looked at Ron and Hermione; their expressions reflected the mingled shock and gratitude he felt. He had never liked Scrimgeour much,but if what Lupin said was true, the man’s final act had been to try to protect Harry.

thank you jkr for writing complex gray characters. 

“What you’ve got to realize, Harry, is that the Death Eaters have got the full might of the Ministry on their side now,” said Lupin. “They’ve got the power to perform brutal spells without fear of identification or arrest.”

YIKEs a little to close to home for us americans right now. doesnt this sound familiar?

- LOL that the daily prophet is trying to convince people that harry killed dumbledore. 

“People won’t let this happen,” said Ron. “It is happening, Ron,” said Lupin. “Muggle-borns are being rounded up as we speak.”

this makes me wanna cry. 

Ron glanced at Hermione, then said. “What if purebloods and half-bloods swear a Muggle-born’s part of their family? I’ll tell everyone Hermione’s my cousin-” Hermione covered Ron’s hand with hers and squeezed it.  “Thank you, Ron, but I couldn’t let you -” “You won’t have a choice,” said Ron fiercely, gripping her hand back. “I’ll teach you my family tree so you can answer questions on it.”

IF DIS AINT TRUE LOVE IDK WHAT IS my heart is fragile 

- lupin is making everyone really uncomfortable by basically saying he wants to leave a pregnant tonks and go adventuring with the trio and i gotta agree its a WACK plan

“She’ll be perfectly safe there, they’ll look after her,” said Lupin. He spoke with a finality bordering on indifference. “Harry, I’m sure James would have wanted me to stick with you.” “Well,” said Harry slowly. “I’m not. I’m pretty sure my father would have wanted to know why you weren’t sticking with your own kid actually.”

BOOM goes the dynamite. as much as i dislike the remus and tonks relationship, thats fecked up that he would try and leave her like this

- ok but its actually really sad hearing remus talking about why he wants to leave - hes like so terrified his kid is going to be a werewolf too and he hates that he made tonks an outcast like him. god DAMN im going to cry. lupins whole life has been fucking HARD

- omg harry is going OFF on him and my wig is flying away. i hate seeing my bbs fight!!!!!!!!!!!!!

“I’d never have believed this,” Harry said. “The man who taught me to fight dementors - a coward.” Lupin drew his wand so fast that Harry had barely reached for his own; there was a loud bang and he felt himself flying backward as if punched

NOOOOOOOO STOP JUST HUG EACH OTHER

- on a lighter note, harry looks at a picture of ariana dumbledore and says she looks like a loaf of bread so

- i just fucking love kreacher ok? i dont have anything else to say

There was a sound of pattering feet, a blaze of shining copper, an echoing clang, and a shriek of agony: Kreacher had taken a run at Mundungus and hit him over the head with a saucepan. “Call ‘im off, call ‘im off, ‘e should be locked up!” screamed Mundungus, cowering as Kreacher raised the heavy-bottomed pan again. “Kreacher, no!” shouted Harry. Kreacher’s thin arms trembled with the weight of the pan, still held aloft. “Perhaps just one more, Master Harry, for luck?”

IM FUCKING DECEASED. someone tell me why kreacher is the best character in the series

“Who was this woman?” asked Harry. “I dunno, some Ministry hag.” Mundungus considered for a moment, brow wrinkled. “Little woman. Bow on top of ‘er head.” He frowned and then added, “Looked like a toad.” Harry dropped his wand.

and in this moment, all the readers collectively shouted “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO” at the page.

EDIT: warning - i go off on long tangents about house elves in this post so... reader beware lol 

ive been purposely putting off doing this reread bc i really really really dont want to cry BUT lets power through this sad ass chapter

Ron had had a fit of gallantry and insisted that Hermione sleep on the cushions from the sofa, so that her silhouette was raised above his. Her arm curved on the floor, her fingers inches from Ron’s. Harry wondered whether they had fallen asleep holding hands. The idea made him feel strangely lonely.

1. SO happi they kept this in the movie. 2. i fucking love ron weasley 

- UGH FUCKING AUNTIE MURIEL. pisses me off that she makes harry resent dumbledore after his death like MIND YO OWN BUSINESS

- lol sirius room is p much described as ‘STICKIN IT TO THA MAN’ and i couldn’t love him more

With a leap of pleasure, Harry recognized his father; his untidy black hair stuck up at the back like Harry’s, and he too wore glasses. Beside him was Sirius, carelessly handsome, his slightly arrogant face so much younger and happier than Harry had ever seen it alive.

SO many things about this description makes me sad yall.

- ok im not going to quote the whole thing but harry just found lilys letter to sirius and it makes me FEEL things so if you too want to FEEL things go to page 180 plz and thx

The letter was an incredible treasure, proof that Lily Potter had lived, really lived, that her warm hand had once moved across this parchment, tracing ink into these letters, these words, words about him, Harry, her son.

let the water works begin

- also can we all appreciate that sirius bought harry his very first broomstick and also his very favorite broomstick years later??? cool? cool.

There was a little too much understanding in the smile Hermione gave him for Harry’s liking.

idk why but i find this fucking hilarious. harry out here thinking ‘dont fucking pity me hoe’ lol

- regulus is probably the single most interesting character in the series and i will FIGHT whoever disagrees

- WHAT UP KREACHER BB!!!!!!!!! ok regulus is the most interesting HUMAN character but kreacher is the most interesting NONhuman character

The elf sat up, curled into a ball, placed his wet face between his knees, and began to rock backward and forward.

i just wanna give him a hug yall

“And one day, a year after he had joined, Master Regulus came down to the kitchen to see Kreacher. Master Regulus always liked Kreacher. And Master Regulus said... he said...” The old elf rocked faster than ever. “...he said that the Dark Lord required an elf.”

i feel so sad for kreacher almost more than any other character in the books. he was so FUCKING loyal and just wanted to be loved and praised by his masters

This, then, was how Voldemort had tested the defenses surrounding the Horcrux: by borrowing a disposable creature, a house-elf...

fucking sick

“Kreacher drank, and as he drank, he saw terrible things... Kreacher’s insides burned... Kreacher cried for Master Regulus to save him, he cried for his Mistress Black, but the Dark Lord only laughed... He made Kreacher drink all the potion... He dropped a locket into the empty  basin... He filled it with more potion.  And then the Dark Lord sailed away, leaving Kreacher on the island...”

lol full on bawling now. also notice how jkr specifically indented the last line to really fucking punch you in the heart

- elf magic vs wizard magic is FASCINATING yall i need a college course on this shit

- i feel like i almost forget that kreacher had to WATCH the master he loved drink the potion, basically torturing himself, and then get dragged under water by the inferi and then LEAVE. like it seriously breaks my heart to try and comprehend. 

“Stop him - stop him!” Hermione cried. “Oh, don’t you see now how sick it is, the way they’ve got to obey?”

i love hermione granger. I think the boys and everyone at school didnt understand SPEW bc the house elves at hogwarts are well taken care of. theyre not tortured or beaten and so people couldn’t understand why she was fighting so hard to stop the elves from doing stuff they actually love. BUUUUT hermione was able to see past the elves just at hogwarts who had a good life and look at the elves like kreacher and dobby who lived miserable lives and just.... i need a hug yall 

“I don’t understand you, Kreacher,” he said finally. “Voldemort tried to kill you, Regulus died to bring Voldemort down, but you were still happy to betray Sirius to Voldemort? You were happy to go to Narcissa and Bellatrix, and pass information to Voldemort through them...” “Harry, Kreacher doesn’t think like that,” said Hermione, wiping her eyes on the back of her hand. “He’s a slave; house-elves are used to bad, even brutal treatment; what Voldemort did to Kreacher wasn’t that far out of the common way. What do wizard wars mean to an elf like Kreacher? He’s loyal to people who are kind to him, and Mrs. Black must have been, and Regulus certainly was, so he served them willingly and parroted their beliefs.” [...] “I’ve said all along that wizards would pay for how they treat house-elves. Well, Voldemort did... and so did Sirius.”

BOOM WITH THE MOTHER FUCKING DYNAMITE. this passage hits me SO hard yall. hermione is right; actions have consequences and think just how much would have changed or been different if sirius had treated kreacher with love like regulus had; they could have been closer to defeating voldemort MUCH sooner and sirius would most likely be alive. just... if theres one message to take away from this, treat everyone nicely kids. 

- lovelovelove that harry is making an effort now to be nice to kreacher and gave him the fake locket. happy tears now yall

He then made two low bows to Harry and Ron, and even gave a funny little spasm in Hermione’s direction that might have been an attempt at a respectful salute

progress people, progress.

- so when we left off, everyone was having a nice relaxing time at the wedding and now theyre not bc SHIT has hit the fan

“Ron! Ron!” Hermione called, half sobbing as she and Harry were buffeted by terrified guests: Harry seized her hand to make sure they weren’t separated

this is so fucking SAD like did they think it was gonna be over right then and there??!? also still salty that the movies did not portray just how much ron and hermione cared for each other

“Undetectable Extension Charm,” said Hermione. “Tricky, but I think I’ve done it okay; anyway, I managed to fit everything we need in here.” She gave the fragile-looking bag a little shake and it echoed like a cargo hold as a number of heavy objects rolled around inside it. “Oh, damn, that’ll be the books,” she said, peering into it, “and I had them all stacked by subject... Oh well...”

all i have to say is THANK GOD FOR HERMIONE FUCKING GRANGER. the boys are like ‘omg i dont have clothes, invisibility cloak, ANYTHING’ and hermione basically just lols at them like ‘bish u think i didn’t come prepared?’

- lolllll some drunk guys were just yelling at hermione to ‘ditch the ginger’ and get drinks with them and ron is described as just standing there with his mouth opens

- i always feel really bad for ron in this book bc i feel like he gets a bad rep. like if you think about it, hes got the most people he has to worry about his family is fucking huge so no wonder hes constantly like listening to the radio and wanting to find out whats going on at home without him

- rons up here just casually suggesting murder (the death eaters attacked them in the cafe) ya boi is savage

“No wonder I can’t get it out, Hermione, you packed my old jeans, they’re tight.” “Oh, I’m so sorry,” hissed Hermione, and as she dragged the waitress out of sight of the windows, Harry heard her mutter a suggestion as to where Ron could stick his wand instead.

LOL NOT THE TIME RONALD

It looked just as Harry remembered it: eerie, cobwebbed, the outlines of the house-elf heads on the wall throwing odd shadows up the staircase. Long dark curtains concealed the portrait of Sirius’s mother. The only thing that was out of place was the troll’s leg umbrella stand, which was lying on its side as if Tonks had just knocked it over again.

nothing to add here other than : dis cute n nostalgic 

“What did you see?” Ron asked, advancing on Harry. “Did you see him at my place?”  “No, I just felt anger - I couldn’t tell -” “But that could be at the Burrow,” said Ron loudly. “What else? Didn’t you see anything? Was he cursing someone?”

see what i mean!!!!!!!! poor ron

“Voldemort can plant false images in your mind, remember-” “Yeah, I do remember, thanks,” said harry through gritted teeth

YIKES. not the time to be a know it all hermione

“Family safe, do not reply, we are being watched.” The patronus dissolved into nothingness. Ron let out a noise between a whimper and a groan and dropped onto the sofa.

:’(

“You called me back for this, to tell me that Harry Potter has escaped again? Draco, give Rowle another taste of our displeasure... Do it, or feel my wrath yourself!”

and while all of this is happening, POOR BB DRACO is like held hostage. god damn this chapter has got me feelin some type of way about EVERYbody