![]() ![]() And that's constantly chafing and reminding you that it IS a prosthetic. And that doesn't do everything that your own limb could. Consequently, simply borrowing someone else's wand seems rather like borrowing a prosthetic. Considering all the emphasis on the wand choosing the wizard, I imagine that losing a wand is losing an arm or a leg it's that much a part of you. He managed to get Hermione to loan him her wand in the previous chapter, but it's not the same. His wand is irreparably damaged and, since he doesn't know how to do wandless magic, he feels utterly helpless. Rowling describes Harry gazing out on a cold, glittering winter world devoid of color, not knowing what to do next, or how to feel. And there's one sentence where the sheer insensitivity of the wizarding world (and Rowling) made me physically sick.Īs the chapter begins, Harry has just awakened from unconsciousness after very nearly being killed by Snake! Bathilda. Regrettably, Dumbledore is odious in this chapter. Perhaps she wrote it when the moon was in the seventh house and Jupiter had aligned with Mars. It's rare to find such a chapter in Rowling. The chapter is short, lucid, emotional without being emo and informative without drowning us in exposition or lack of continuity. I'm going to be honest with you lot there were occasional bits I liked here. In which Rita Skeeter dishes serious dirt, Dumbledore goes in for what he considers semi-benevolent despotism, Aberforth suspects DD of murder, Harry finally realises that Dumbledore Is Not What He Seemed, Rowling is cavalier about World War II, and I nearly lose my lunch.Ĭhapter Eighteen - The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore
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