Friday, January 7, 2011

Chapter 24-27

Pg. 477- 553                  Total of 758 pages
Harry wants to bury Dobby, and digs him a grave himself. Later Harry goes to speak with Olivander about his broken wand. They start to talk about the broken wand, and he tells Harry that Voldemort is after the Elder wand, which is the most powerful wand in the world. Right after this, you can read that Voldemort opens Dumbledore's tomb and takes his wand. He now possesses the most powerful wand there is.

The three of them makes a plan on how to get Bellatrix' horcrux out of the Gringotts vault, and they end up using a polyjuice and get a goblin to open it for them. The "robbery is not a success, but they get the job done. Because of all the complications, they are being pursued. They let go of the dragon that was guarding, the vault, and jumps on its back.

Once they get of its back, they get a campfire going. In the escape they got the horcrux, but they lost the sword and their only way to destroy it. Harry has a vision where he sees Voldemort knowing about them chasing the horcruxes. He then reveals to them that the last horcrux is at Hogwarts, and they are now planning how to get in there.

The three of them has to travel back to Hogwarts to find the last horcrux

Their Eyes Were Watching God

205 pages
I know the name of the blog is Harry Potter, but we read Their Eyes were watching God, and it was actually not bad. It is written by Zora Neale Hurston, and was released in 1937. It is about an African American woman called Janie Crawford, and her journey through her adult life. It starts of with her grandmother that marries her away, because she wants someone to take care of her. This man is called Logan, but she doesn't love him, and love is really important to Janie in this story. She eventually meets a man called Joe Starks that wants to travel to a new town, but he needs a good looking wife. Janie fits that description perfectly, and she decides after a few weeks that she wants to go away with him.

Joe becomes the mayor of the new town, and life seem good for a moment. But eventually, Janie starts to dislike the way that Joe treats her. He demands her to wear a head rag to keep her hair up, and even gives her a spitting pot. Joe also ends up dying, and Janie once again wants to find love, but actually love finds her. Tea Cake walks into her store, and she feels right away that he might be the one. It turns out he is, and they live happily around the country, until the hurricanes comes, which leads to Tea Cake getting rabies. In the end Janie kills him before he can kill her. When she looks back at her life she is happy and feels that she lived a good one.

Tea Cake seducing Janie

Chapter 21, 22 and 23

Pg. 405-476

They don't know about the deathly hallows, so he tells story. Its known as the Tales of the Three brothers. It is a story about three brothers that can have one wish come true. The first brother wishes for the worlds most powerful wand. The second brother wants a stone of ressurection, so that he can bring his old wife back to life. The third brother asks for a cloak of invisibility so that he can fool death. Therefore they think that this might be the invisibility cloak that Harry has.

The three of them are ambushed by death eaters because Xeno's daughter is being held captive. They forced him to keep Harry there so that they could capture him too. When they are in the woods talking about what happened, Harry says Voldemorts name and breaks the protection around the tent, which leads to them being surrounded

As they eventually find out that it is Harry Potter they have captured, they leed them to the Malfoy Manor where they also keep them. Here they meet Xeno's daughter, and eventually also Dobby, the house elf that previously helped Harry. He actually ends up saving them again as he helps them out of the prison cell, but as they Disapparates away Dobby is killed by Bellatrix' knife.

The Brother that got the cloak of invisibility gives it on to his son, and makes peace with death

Chapter 19 and 20

Pg. 363-404
Harry wakes up at the middle of a night, of something that he thinks is someone walking outside. He sees a silver doe, which is like a patronous. He follows it to a frozen pond, where it suddently goes under the ice. There, the sword of gryffindor lies. At the bottom of the ice cold pond. Harry breaks the ice and jumps to get it. The locket feels danger and tightens around his neck and strangles him. All of the sudden, Ron shows up, and helps him out of the water with the sword.

Later, they walked to Xenophilius Lovegood's house. They talk about the reason events, and when Harry ask about the sign that he had seen earlier, Xenophilius asks if it is the sign of the Deathly Hallows.

Sword of Gryffindor

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Chapter 17 and 18

Pg. 330-362
Harry and Hermione follows a woman, called Batilda, that they know knew Dumbledore. She leads them to a house. She asks if Harry wants to come upstairs to assure that is is Harry Potter that has come to this house. After he says yes, a giant snake just pops out of her neck and ambushes Harry. Realizing that this obviously was a trap, he tries to escape, and with Hermione's help they managed to do it. However, Harry's wand breaks, which means he lost one of the rarest wands there is.

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Chapter 15 and 16

Pg.284-329

Harry feels weeker as he is carrying the horcrux, and Hermione suggests that they don't carry it, but just keep it in the tent. They eventually decide to share the burden and switch carrying the locket. The three of them constantly looks for new places to sleep, as they are in the woods in a tent. Later in the chapter, we learn that the Sword of Gryffindor that Snape kept in his office, is actually fake. In the end of the chapter Ron is affected by the locket, and he gets so mad that he disapparates away from them, impossible to find

The day after, Ron is still missing, but the two of them are still hoping that he will return. When they feel that they have waited long enough they have to leave. When Hermione is reading the book she got from Dumbledore, she finds an odd looking symbol, which Harry recognizes. In the end of this chapter, Harry finds his parents grave, and puts a wreath on their grave.
Grave of Lily and James Potter

Monday, January 3, 2011

Chapter 13 and 14

Pg. 246-283

Once they are in the elevator, Hermoine's character is needed at a hearing, which makes their plan harder to execute. Later, they follow her down there, and find that the room is filled with dementors above them. All of a sudden, Harry stuns Umbridge who has the locket and they steal it. On the way back they meet up with Ron, and just manages to escape as they are being chased out of there.

As they reach their destination, they find themselves in the woods, and Ron is badly hurt. Hermione heals Ron with a potion she has in her super purse. They find somewhere to place the locket, before they all together try and destroy it. But nothing they do seem to do any harm.