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by
J.K. Rowling
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October 17, 2019 - September 24, 2020
An odd symbol, rather like a triangular eye, glistened from a golden chain around his neck.
“Bathilda Bagshot lives in Godric’s Hollow?”
Never once, in six years, had Dumbledore told Harry that they had both lived and lost loved ones in Godric’s Hollow.
“Harry, you aren’t supposed to let this happen anymore!” Hermione cried, her voice echoing through the bathroom. “Dumbledore wanted you to use Occlumency! He thought the connection was dangerous — Voldemort can use it, Harry! What good is it to watch him kill and torture, how can it help?”
Mafalda Hopkirk,”
assistant in the Improper Use of Magic Office.
Reg Cattermole,
Runcorn!”
“Shut up, Ron,”
As Dumbledore had told Harry that he believed Voldemort had hidden the Horcruxes in places important to him, they kept reciting, in a sort of dreary litany, those locations they knew that Voldemort had lived or visited. The orphanage where he had been born and raised; Hogwarts, where he had been educated; Borgin and Burkes, where he had worked after completing school; then Albania, where he had spent his years of exile: These formed the basis of their speculations.
“If there was one place that was really important to You-Know-Who, it was Hogwarts!” “Oh, come on,” scoffed Ron. “His school?” “Yeah, his school! It was his first real home, the place that meant he was special; it meant everything to him, and even after he left —”
“Your mother can’t produce food out of thin air,” said Hermione.
“No one can. Food is the first of the five Principal Exceptions to Gamp’s Law of Elemental Transfigur
Ted, and Harry suddenly knew who he was: Tonks’s
father.
sure they recognized the voice of Dean Thomas, their fellow Gryffindor.
“Couple of days later, once he’d got the say-so from You-Know-Who, I imagine, he sent it down to London to be kept in Gringotts instead.”
“It’s a fake,” rasped Griphook. “The sword of
Gryffindor!”
“Oh yes. It is a copy — an excellent copy, it is true — but it was Wizard-made. The original was forged centuries ago by goblins and had certain properties only goblin-made armor possesses. Wherever the genuine sword ...
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“The sword can destroy Horcruxes! Goblin-made blades imbibe only that which strengthen them — Harry, that sword’s impregnated with basilisk venom!”
“Problem? There’s no problem,” said Ron, still refusing to look at Harry. “Not according to you, anyway.”
He had lost the protection of the twin cores, and only now that it was gone did he realize how much he had been counting upon it.
Impenetrable, unhelpful, useless, like everything else Dumbledore had left behind
The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore.
with his friend Gellert Grindelwald.
Bathilda Bagshot, the celebrated magical historian who has lived in Godric’s Hollow for many years.
Bathilda Bagshot agreed to accept into her home her great-nephew, Gellert Grindelwald.
The name of Grindelwald is justly famous: In a list of Most Dangerous Dark Wizards of All Time,
Why exactly did Aberforth Dumbledore blame Albus for his sister’s death?
Grindelwald, expelled from Durmstrang for near-fatal attacks upon fellow students,
“What’s Nurmengard?” “The prison Grindelwald had built to hold his opponents.
“The Forest of Dean,”
It was a silver-white doe, moon-bright and dazzling, picking her way over the ground, still silent, and leaving no hoofprints in
the fine powdering of snow.
she had come for him, and him alone.
A great silver cross . . .
A glint of deep red . . . It was a sword with glittering rubies in its hilt. . . . The sword of Gryffindor was lying at the bottom of the forest pool.
Only a true Gryffindor could have pulled that out of the hat.
Their daring, nerve, and chivalry set Gryffindors apart.
Ron, fully dressed but drenched to the skin, his hair plastered to his face, the sword of Gryffindor in one hand and the Horcrux dangling from its broken chain in the other.
“How are you going to open it?” asked Ron. He looked terrified. “I’m going to ask it to open, using Parseltongue,” said Harry.
“No,” Harry corrected him. “He must’ve known you’d always want to come back.”
“Are you referring to the sign of the Deathly Hallows?”
“That was the name on the grave with the mark on it, in Godric’s Hollow,” said Hermione, still watching Xenophilius. “Ignotus Peverell.”
“Why, that the three brothers in the story were actually the three Peverell brothers, Antioch, Cadmus, and Ignotus! That they were the original owners of the Hallows!”
Some wizards just like to boast that theirs are bigger and better than other people’s.”
“So that Peverell bloke who’s buried in Godric’s Hollow,” he said hastily, trying to sound robustly sane, “you don’t know anything about him, then?”
“It lists the pure-blood families that are now extinct in the male line. Apparently the Peverells were one of the earliest families to vanish.”
Marvolo Gaunt said he was descended from the Peverells!”
