![]() The tiny bits of glass would cling to his skin, and could even get inside the wounds-such as the one already inflicted on his finger. Sticking his hand in powdered glass? That would tear up his entire hand. Or if he'd laid an egg.Īnd felt cautiously around the trunk for the rest, but nothing more remained of his godfather's last gift except powdered glass, which clung to the deepest layer of debris like glittering grit. "Laid" would be correct if Harry had put it in or on a specific place. This is also the first time that Harry's thought about that mirror since OotP. Of the enchanted mirror that his dead godfather, Sirius, had given him. This is the beginning of Rowling's obsession with precise measurements, by the way. A bit of broken glass, to the untrained eye, looks pretty much like any other bit of broken glass. I think we can safely say that Harry doesn't value any of this stuff. He fishes out an old "POTTER STINKS" badge from the Triwizard Tournament, a broken Sneakoscope that he got from either the twins or Ron.and the non-Horcrux locket. Not content with cutting one finger, Harry sticks his hand into the Trunk of Trash again, because he's so anxious to get cut again and/or experience septicemia. I'm not sure why, since it's down to Harry not paying attention to what he's doing, as usual, and getting hurt, but I think that sympathy is JKR's objective. I honestly think we're supposed to feel sorry for him. Instead of, you know, taking the trash-filled trunk and upending it into a bin or a plastic bag like a sane person.Įxperienced a stabbing pain in the fourth finger of his right hand, and withdrawn it to see a lot of blood. Minutes previously, Harry had plunged his hand into this mulch, Wouldn't YOU want to date a boy whose clothes had bits of dead beetle stuck to them? Perhaps he's practicing for his future career as Harry the Homeless Man. I'm sure that most kids would be thrilled to put on clothes that had been resting in a compost of dried-out cockroach parts. Witness the condition of his trunk.Īt the start of the intervening school years, he had merely skimmed off the topmost three quarters of the contents and replaced or updated them, leaving a layer of general debris at the bottom – old quills, desiccated beetle eyes, single socks that no longer fit. Next we find out that Harry is a complete and total slob. That would involve his actually thinking, planning and preparing for the final battle. And why is healing Hermione's responsibility? Why can't Harry learn to heal wounds himself? Oh, wait. Instead of, say, Poppy Pomfrey, who actually has experience in healing people. Making a mental note to ask Hermione how it was done, The fault, dear Harry, lies not with your education, but with yourself. This from the same boy who admits later that he opened his history book exactly once in six years. He had never learned how to repair wounds, and now he came to think of it – particularly in light of his immediate plans – this seemed a serious flaw in his magical education. So you're whining about not being able to use magic to fix a cut that you don't know how to heal by magic. It was stupid, pointless, irritating beyond belief that he still had four days left of being unable to perform magic…but he had to admit to himself that this jagged cut in his finger would have defeated him. Since when do "Dudley" and "clever" belong in the same sentence? And haven't the Dursleys been consciously avoiding trying to hurt Harry since he was accepted at Hogwarts? Or has Rowling been reading so much fanfic that she just forgot that? Possibly the cup of tea was Dudley's idea of a clever booby trap. I would kind of expect a writer who'd written seven books to know that. But there should be a full stop or a semi-colon after the word "around." Commas are not full stops. I'll accept the notion that "Number Four, Privet Drive," rather than "Number Four Privet Drive" can be correct in England. He looked around, the landing of number four, Privet Drive, was deserted. ![]() I'm not sure why all of this is relevant, or why it was essential to do it out of sequence. ![]() Then we find out that Harry was packing and that he cut himself while packing. Then Harry goes to the bathroom to clean the cut. The story starts with Harry having a cut on his finger and stepping on a cup of tea that was left outside his door. In which Harry proves why he comes from Little Whinging, Rita Skeeter is accurate about some things, Rowling uses the book to talk back to critical fans, and what promise there was in the first chapter goes wholly unfulfilled.
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