Harry has taken on a quest to destroy the Horcruxes(the objects into which Voldemort has placed fragments of his soul, making him immortal as long as those objects survive). Harry wants to discuss the quest with Ron and Hermione, who agreed to accompany him in the previous book, but Mrs. Weasley interferes, first by approaching each of them in turn and trying to dissuade them from leaving Hogwarts, then by keeping them busy and apart from each other by having them help her prepare the house for the wedding of Bill Weasley and Fleur. Finally the three friends steal a moment to meet in Ron’s room, and Ron and Hermione reveal the lengths they’ve gone to in preparing for the quest. Hermione has enchanted her Muggle (non-wizard) parents into changing their names, forgetting that they have a daughter, and moving to Australia so that Voldemort will not be able to find them. Ron has given the household ghoul a pair of his own pajamas and enchanted the ghoul with red hair and pustules, so that when Ron fails to return to Hogwarts, his parents can give out the information that he’s ill with an infectious disease called spattergroit, which would cause him to look somewhat like the enchanted ghoul does. Most important, Hermione reveals that she used a spell to steal the books on Horcruxes, which Dumbledore had removed from the library for safekeeping. She explains that Voldemort is unlikely to try to reassemble his own soul by destroying the Horcruxes himself, because doing so requires that the person who made the Horcruxes suffer the pain of remorse for their actions, which seems contrary to Voldemort’s nature. But for Harry and his friends to destroy them will be very difficult, because only very destructive and dangerous items, such as the basilisk’s fang that Harry used to destroy Tom Riddle’s diary (the first of the Horcruxes) can be sure to do the job.
Harry was muttering the name Gregorovitch in his sleep. Harry realizes that he was seeing through Voldemort’s eyes in his dream and he thinks he recognizes the name Gregorovitch. Harry perks up when he remembers that it’s his seventeenth birthday, and the Trace (a spell with which the Ministry of Magic can track any spell cast by an underage wizards) is broken, allowing him to practice magic freely. Ginny draws Harry into her room and gives him a passionate kiss, but Ron breaks in angrily and interrupts them. Rufus Scrimgeour, the Minister of Magic, who insists on speaking to Harry, Ron, and Hermione in private interrupts Harry's party. Scrimgeour has brought each of them a bequest from Dumbledore’s will. Dumbledore has left Ron a device called a Deluminator, a device that can suck all the light out of a room or turn the light on again. He left Hermione a copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, a collection of fairy tales familiar to virtually everyone raised by wizards. To Harry, Dumbledore bequeathed the first Snitch he ever caught, saved from his first Quidditch match. Dumbledore’s will also bequeathed to Harry the sword of Godric Gryffindor, but Scrimgeour maintains that the sword was not Dumbledore’s to give. Harry takes the snitch in his hand and it does not open. After Scrimgeour has gone, Harry reminds his friends that he caught his first Snitch in his mouth, though he avoided mentioning this fact in front of Scrimgeour. Now he places the Snitch in his mouth again, and though it does not open, words appear on it: “I open at the close.”
On the afternoon following Harry’s birthday, the Weasleys host the wedding of Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour. To keep secret the fact that he’s hiding at the Weasleys’, Harry takes Polyjuice Potion to disguise himself as a red-headed boy from the village, passing himself off as the Weasleys’ Cousin Barny. After the wedding ceremony, Krum takes a seat next to Harry and asks him about Xenophilius Lovegood. Krum is infuriated by the symbol Xenophilius wears, recognizing it as a symbol associated with the Dark wizard Grindelwald. Krum’s grandfather had been among those murdered by Grindelwald, and Krum had seen the triangular eye symbol at his school where Grindelwald had carved it into the wall. In his agitation, Krum takes out his wand and taps it menacingly against his own leg, prompting Harry to remember where he had heard the name Gregorovitch. It is the name that belongs to the famous wand maker who made Krum’s wand. Aunt Muriel had rumors of Dumbledore and got them from a woman who lived in Godric’s Hollow (the town where Harry was born and where his parents were murdered) at the same time that Dumbledore’s family lived there. Harry is shocked at these reports about his dead friend, not least that Dumbledore lived in Godric’s Hollow like Harry, and that they both have relatives buried there, yet Dumbledore never saw fit to mention these things to Harry. The wedding celebration is cut short by the appearance of Kingsley Shacklebolt’s Patronus, a silver lynx. (A Patronus is a charm that witches and wizards use to send out an animal-shaped manifestation of themselves. It can be used to send messages, and is also one of the only things that can ward off a dementor.) The lynx tells the guests that Scrimgeour is dead, the Ministry has fallen, and the Death Eaters are coming.
Reflection
Well I am glad Harry is safe and sound at the beginning of the chapter six. Hermione tells them all about what they have to do in order to kill Voldemort. I am glad that Ron and Hermione decided to stick next to Harry's side through out the whole thing. I mean Hermione basically fell off the face of the Earth just to protect and go with Harry. And then Ron made up a lie that he got a disease. But hopefully they can find all of the Horcruxes and kill Voldemort because I really do not like him. I also think that all of the gifts that Dumbledore has given Harry, Ron, and Hermione will come in handy. He was a very intelligent guy and always had reasons. I feel like their gifts will become very useful. Also, the wand thing, I still think Dumbledore has the most powerful wand and that both Harry and Voldemort want it. That is why Harry sees the wand maker through Voldemorts eyes. He is trying to find the most powerful wand. It really sucks that the wedding got attacked by Death Eaters. Would you like that to happen on your wedding day? I did not think so. My mom believes that if you have a good wedding, your love will not last, but if you have a bad wedding; your love will last forever. I guess theirs is lasting forever.
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