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Deathly Hallows Uberwank: Chapter 2, In Memoriam
Another one already! This is pretty short, though.

On the first page of this chapter, Harry describes the fact he's not allowed to do magic as "stupid, irritating, pointless beyond belief". Frankly, I think JK Rowling is on veeeeery thin ice, using that phrase in this chapter.



I skimmed most of this chapter on the first readthrough (standing in the queue at Borders), as it seemed relatively unimportant. After all, if it turned out to be significant I could come back to it. I've since attempted to re-read to spot significant stuff and I can't do it. My eyes slide off the page and the words refuse to enter my brain; that's how boring it is. It's like those bits in Lord of the Rings where something moderately exciting (note I said "moderately") just happened and then "Aragorn began to sing" and he spends nine pages singing the ballad of Grangnoi, son of Thrangnoi, son of Viacom, who did nothing whatsoever of interest.

This chapter sucks. All that happens in it is that Harry reads Dumbledore's obit in the paper, and then, after that, reads an interview with Rita Skeeter where she slates Dumbledore. At one point, she mentions Dumbledore's brother Aberforth, who - and this is pretty clear, isn't it? - fucks goats. I can't help but be slightly bothered that there don't appear to be any gay wizards in canon, but we do have a sympathetic character who fucks goats. I pondered this discrepancy for many days and nights, and came to the conclusion that goat-fucking is totally funny. Yes, anyway, Harry reads the paper, which I something I do almost every day, and is therefore not enormously special.

The only other major event that happens in the chapter is that Harry knocks over a cup of tea, having just cut his hand on a shard of glass he keeps in his school trunk. This happens in a somewhat bizarre sequence beginning with him knocking over the cup, then flashbacking (flashing back? Backflashing?) by about half a minute to him slicing himself open with hilarious consequences. The only purpose of this bit seems to be so that the chapter can start with the phrase, "Harry Potter was bleeding" and give us cause for alarm for about a milisecond. After he cuts his hand, he elevates his arm, which strikes me as odd. Not that he does it - it makes perfect sense. Basic first aid, that is. But Harry is surely too dumb to know this and, in any case, spends the next couple of minutes charging around the house, thus increasing his heart rate. Twat. Once he's mopped up the blood, he angsts about the shard of glass, and also about the locket he and Dumbledore picked up in that cave last year. He wangsts a bit over how the locket is pretty much worthless, but it cost so much to attain blah blah blah, cue Return of the Jedi:

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Just one more thing to say about the chapter, and that is this: reading this book, I was more or less lost after this bit:

'Lies!' Harry bellowed

Right. More soon.

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