Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows #3 post

Harry Potter and the deathly hallows post 3

J.K Rowling

Fantasy, Fiction, Thriller

285/759

At this point of my reading, Harry, Hermione and Ron have left Grimmaulds Place and they are on their adventure of finding the seven horcruxes. They knew that their first task lied somewhere in the ministry of magic. In the Ministry of Magic was where everything political within magical world could be found. It was also the place where Harry Potter could not be seen. To be able to get into the ministry of magic without being recognized, they would need to use the “Polyjuice potion”. The Polyjuice potion was used to temporarily transform a human into another person. All they needed was to find someone that was on their way to the ministry of magic. That way they could use a charm to put them to sleep and take one small hair and insert it into the potion. Without the hair there would be no possible way for the transformation. Harry was disguised as Allbert Runcorn, who worked in the muggle-born registration commission. Hermione became Mafalda Hopkirk a commander in chief of the improper use of magic. Lastly, there is Ron who was disguised as Reginald Cattermole, who was a magical maintenance department worker in the ministry..  The horcruxes that was placed somewhere in the ministry was Salazar Slytherins locket. He was the founder of the Slytherin house in Hogwarts. The locket had to be somewhere in the property of Hogwarts ex professor, Dolores Umbridge. It was stolen from Grimmaulds place by a dealer of wizarding artifacts and given to Umbridge as a bribe. Dolores was wearing the locket when Harry, Hermione and Ron saw her in the ministry. After they successfully took the locket of her neck, they needed to get out of the ministry because they were getting recognized as Harry, Hermione and Ron. Dolores was furious and made sure to have the dementors capture their souls so that they wouldn't be able to escape. Fortunately, they successfully got through to the dementors and escaped. They found themselves in the middle of the forbidden forest. Ron was horrible injured. Ron’s left side and face were bloody and a big part of his flesh was missing from his arm, as if though someone had scoped it by a knife. Their plan was to stay in the forbidden forest until Ron starts to feel better so that they could continue with the search. There were six more horcruxes to find.

It has been very interesting to read these past chapters. They all kept building suspense and you never knew what could exactly happen. At this part of the book I learned more about the horcruxes. Each horcrux has its founder and inside there is a part of the owners soul. The horcruxes provide immortality for the dark witches or wizards. One thing I realized since I first started reading the book was that every time I would stop at a certain part, I find out about some new character or learn more about the previous characters. This time I learned about a character, Mundugus Fletcher. He was a dealer of wizarding artifacts. Earlier in the book he pretended to help Harry Potter, but then latter on I discovered that he was the man who gave the locket to Umbridge as a bribe.

                Harry opened his eyes and was dazzled by gold and green; he had no idea what had happened, he only knew that he was lying on what seemed to be leaves and twigs. Struggling to draw breath into lungs that felt flattened, he blinked and realized that the gaudy glare was sunlight steaming through a canopy of leaves far above him. Then and object twitched close to his face. He pushed himself on to his hands and knees, ready to face some small, fierce creature, but saw that an object was Ron’s foot. Looking around, Harry saw that they and Hermione were lying on a forest floor, apparently alone.

So far in my reading I haven’t read a passage this descriptive. I really enjoyed reading this part of the book because I could really picture what was going on. There were absolutely no parts where I got confused and didn't know what was happening. All of J.K Rowling’s sentences are very clear, very descriptive and very enjoyable to read. This was my favorite passage so far in the book. I reread it a couple of times so I could picture it in my head all over again.  This passage also gave away the setting of the last chapter I read and where Hermione, Harry and Ron were going to be spending time before continuing their adventure.