Death Eaters appear and Harry, Ron, and Hermione join hands and Disapparate (teleport) under Hermione’s direction. They arrive in Tottenham Court Road, a busy street in London, in the Muggle rather than the wizarding world. They all start to debate on where to go now that Voldemort has taken over the Ministry. Harry decides to go to Number Twelve Grimmauld Place, the house that Sirius Black left to Harry in his will. They can only hope that the jinxes and charms on the house will be enough to hide them from Snape and the other Death Eaters. Inside the house, small signs, such as a knocked-over umbrella stand, give Harry and the others the impression that someone has been in the house, but it appears to be empty now. Suddenly they feel their tongues raveling and then unraveling, the effect of a Tongue-Tying charm Mad-Eye Moody put upon the house to prevent them from revealing its secrets. Harry feels a burning pain in his scar. Ron badgers Harry about what Voldemort is doing, fearful that Voldemort has attacked Ron’s family. Ron’s father’s Patronus arrives to say that the family is safe but being watched. Harry sees through Voldemort’s eyes as Voldemort tortures one of the Death Eaters who attacked them in the cafe, punishing him for summoning Voldemort but then letting Harry escape.
Harry went into Sirius room and found a letter that reveals that Sirius had given Harry his first broomstick, for his first birthday; that Harry’s parents had known Bathilda Bagshot; and that Dumbledore had borrowed his fathers' Invisibility Cloak. Harry makes up his mind that he wants to go to Godric’s Hollow to meet Bathilda Bagshot and visit his parents’ graves, hoping to find information about his own parents and about Dumbledore’s past. When he tells this to Hermione, however, she tells him it’s a waste of valuable time. Hermione reminds him that their urgent task is to find the Horcruxes, the destruction of which will enable them to defeat Voldemort. Harry and Hermione notice the room belonging to Sirius’s deceased younger brother, Regulus Arcturus Black, who had been a Death Eater. Seeing his name on the door, they realize he may be the R.A.B. who signed his name to the false locket that Harry and Dumbledore recovered from the cave. Hermione remembers with a shock that there had been a locket in the cabinet in the drawing room of the house the last time she’d been there. Unfortunately, the locket is no longer there. The only hope Harry has is that Kreacher, the bilious house-elf he inherited with the house, may have stolen the locket. They summon Kreacher. Kreacher admits that he did steal the locket after it was thrown out two years ago, but he says that it’s now gone—stolen by Mundungus Fletcher. Kreacher explains that after Sirius ran away from home and deserted his parents, Sirius’s younger brother Regulus became more and more involved in the Dark Arts. At the age of sixteen, Regulus joined Lord Voldemort. A year later, Regulus informed Kreacher that Lord Voldemort needed the services of a house-elf, and that Regulus had volunteered Kreacher, who then went to Voldemort to do his bidding. What Voldemort needed Kreacher for was to test the defenses that he had set up to guard the locket Horcrux in the underground cavern. Voldemort made Kreacher drink the potion in the basin until it was all drunk, then he put the locket Horcrux in it and refilled it. Then Voldemort left Kreacher to die as the potion overpowered Kreacher with thirst, Kreacher went to drink from the lake, and the dead hands of the Inferi dragged him under the water. But Voldemort seriously miscalculated by not taking into consideration the nature and ways of house elves. Kreacher had been ordered by his master Regulus to come back after helping Voldemort, so he was bound to return. More important, though no witch or wizard could Disapparate into or out of the cavern, house-elf magic works differently than wizard’s magic, so Kreacher was able to simply Disapparate from under the water, going back to his master Regulus. Apparently, Regulus soon after had a change of heart about serving Voldemort, and he made Kreacher take him back to the underground cavern and show him the basin with the locket. Regulus drank the potion himself, stole the locket, and replaced it with the false one signed “R.A.B.” that Harry found. He ordered Kreacher to return home, never to reveal to Regulus’s family what had happened to him, and to destroy the locket, after which Kreacher saw Regulus dragged beneath the lake and killed. Kreacher returned to Grimmauld Place, unable ever to tell Mistress Black what had happened to her son, and unable to destroy the locket as ordered because of the powerful enchantments protecting it. Harry orders Kreacher to find Mundungus Fletcher and bring him back to Grimmauld Place, but before Kreacher leaves, Harry presents him with Regulus’s false locket as a token for Kreacher to remember his former master by. Overcome with gratitude, Kreacher leaves to carry out Harry’s orders.
Reflection
I believe that Kreacher was loyal to his master but very wrong for helping Voldemort! I also think that Harry, Hermione, and Ron are taking up too much time. I know they have to find all of the Horcruxes before Voldemort takes over the whole entire magic world, but they need to spread out or do something so that they can find all of them in time. No offense, but I like dobby a lot better then Kreacher. The good thing is that Harry, Hermione, and Ron found out who R.A.B is. Also they can find the person who has the real Horcruxes so that they can destroy it personally if Mundungus Fletcher has not already. The only thing I do not understand is why Harry wants to figure out Dumbledore’s past so badly. I know they were good friends but does it really have much to do with finding the Horcruxes or killing Voldemort? Maybe reveling something from Dumbledore's past will help him in the end.
No comments:
Post a Comment