Khác biệt giữa bản sửa đổi của “Harry Potter dành cho Muggle/Truyện/Bảo Bối Tử Thần/Chương 17”

As they depart the cemetery, [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Hermione Granger|Hermione]] is positive she saw something movedmove in the distance. [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Harry Potter|Harry]] thinks it may be a ghost, but Hermione draws her wand. When Harry sees dislodged snow by the bushes where Hermione was pointing, he surmises that if it was [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Major Events/Death Eaters|Death Eaters]], they would be dead now; he suggests putting on the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Invisibility Cloak|Invisibility Cloak]], and they glance around repeatedly as they leave. Heading down a street, they have no idea where [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Bathilda Bagshot|Bathilda Bagshot’s]] house might be. An overgrown hedge surrounds a ruined cottage, most of which is still standing, but one side has been blown apart. On the gate, a sign appears:

Messages from visitors are scribbled on the sign. Hermione thinks this is disrespectful, but it cheers Harry, who feels only gratitude. A mysterious, elderly woman approaches. She is obviously a magical person, but Harry is surprised and suspicious that she can see them under the Invisibility Cloak. When she beckons them to follow, Harry asks if she is Bathilda Bagshot; she nods and beckons again. She leads them to a house with a garden as overgrown as the Potter residence. Inside, Harry whiffs a foul odor clinging to her that smells like putrid meat, though it may be the house, which is covered by thick dust. Bathilda goes into another room, and Harry hears her calling, "Come!" causing Hermione to jump. Inside, Harry spots photographs atop a chest of drawers and [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Tergeo|removes the dust]]. A half dozen photos are missing from their ornate frames, but Harry recognizes a picture of a young blond man as the one in [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Rita Skeeter|Rita Skeeter’s]] book, ''The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore''. Harry repeatedly asks Bathilda who it is, but she vaguely stares at him, causing Harry to wonder how she was able to tell Rita Skeeter much about the Dumbledore clan. Harry tells Hermione that the man in the photo is the thief he saw in [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Lord Voldemort|Voldemort's]] mind, who stole the item from [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Gregorovitch|Gregorovitch]].

Bathilda motions for only Harry to go upstairs with her, while Hermione remains behind; Harry pockets the thief's photo on his way out. In the bedroom, Bathilda inquires if he is Harry Potter. He answers affirmatively and wants to know if she has something for him. Bathilda closes her eyes, and Harry feels his scar prickle and the Locket [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Horcrux|Horcrux]] twitch against his chest as the room momentarily darkens. Joy surges through his body, and he hears his own voice saying, "Hold him!" Bathilda points to a dressing table in the corner. Harry inspects it, but as he turns, he witnesses a revolting sight: a huge snake pours out from what was Bathilda's neck, her lifeless body collapsing to the floor. [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Nagini|Nagini]] attacks, biting Harry's arm and sending his wand flying. The resulting noise brings Hermione frantically running upstairs. Nagini releases Harry and lunges at Hermione, barely missing her. Harry, grabbing his dropped wand, yells that [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Lord Voldemort|Voldemort]] is coming. Nagini lunges again as Harry drags Hermione across the bed. Hermione casts [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Confringo|Confringo]], and the spell ricochets around the room, burning Harry's hand, as they leap out the window. Voldemort, reaching out to grasp Harry, screams in fury as he and Hermione [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Apparation|Disapparate]]; his anger causes unbearable pain in Harry's scar.

Pain mingles with Voldemort's memories of a fateful night sixteen years before: Hallowe'en costumes, a father's smile, a toddler playing on the floor inside a cozy house. Outside, a gate creaks open as a dark figure strides through. A man yells, "Lily, take Harry and go! It's him. Go! Run! I'll hold him off!" More screams, then green flashes, and a woman's crumpled body lies upon the nursery floor. One final flash, and pain-shot darkness. <!--Been meaning to mention this for a long time, but previous sentence with "pain-shot darkness" is excellent prose!--> Then, through Voldemort's eyes, Harry sees Bathilda's bedroom again as Voldemort picks up the dropped picture containing the thief's photo. Hermione's voice pierces the void, pleading for him to awake. Opening his eyes, Harry sees he is inside the tent. Hermione says they escaped, but it is hours later and he has been sick; she used the Hover charm to get him into his bunk and a Severing charm to pry the stuck Locket off his chest. [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Dittany|Dittany]] healed Nagini's bite wounds. While Harry relived Voldemort's memories, he was delirious, moaning and screaming. Harry relates what happened upstairs and that Nagini was hidden inside Bathilda's corpse, though he withholds the most gruesome details. Nagini only spoke when she and Harry were alone because it was in [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Parseltongue|Parseltongue]]. Nagini immediately summoned Voldemort when Harry identified himself. Harry asks for his wand, but Hermione tearfully confesses that it is broken, probably by her ricocheting spell. Stunned, Harry wants her to try and repair it with her wand, but she hesitantly reminds him that [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Ron Weasley|Ron]]'s [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Chamber of Secrets/Chapter 5|broken wand]] never worked the same. He pleads with her to try anyway, and she does, but, too badly damaged, it snaps in half again when he tries to use it. With [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Ollivander|Ollivander]] held captive by Voldemort, Harry is unsure how he will obtain another wand. Though clearly upset, Harry tells Hermione she is not to blame, then borrows her wand to take the watch, wanting to be away from her. Hermione sits by the bunk quietly sobbing.

Harry confronts death in [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/Godric's Hollow|Godric's Hollow]], but rather than witnessing it hot and fresh as when [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Albus Dumbledore|Dumbledore]], [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Cedric Diggory|Cedric Diggory]], and [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Sirius Black|Sirius Black]] were killed, he now sees only its cold, decayed aftermath, dimming his hope to ever be reunited with his mother and father. Harry's own recollections of that tragic night are faint, limited to a green flash and his mother's screams. While inside Voldemort's memories, he was able to see the entire horrendous event as it unfolded through Voldemort's eyes. Not only does this reopen old wounds, it creates new ones that only intensify his grief and despair. But as painful as those memories are, they also provide him a clearer picture regarding what actually happened, tying him closer to his parents and clarifying his role in vanquishing the Dark Lord.

Harry's difficult childhood has resulted in himhis never fully trusting or relying on others, and he usually prefers to confront most situations alone. He has made great strides in overcoming this trait, however, learning to accept friends' and mentors' support and guidance, though some, like [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Ron Weasley|Ron]] and Dumbledore, have also failed him. He takes a great leap of faith here when he willingly follows the mysterious elderly woman, believing she is Bathilda Bagshot and trusting that she can help. This time Harry's reasoning proves faulty. Even the decision to go to Godric's Hollow was driven more by a desire to see his birthplace, visit James and Lily's graves, and resolve his conflicted feelings about Dumbledore, rather than to uncover clues relating to their mission; the error nearly costs Harry and Hermione their lives. It is also a little surprising that Hermione, who is usually far more cautious and suspicious than either Ron or Harry, not only suggested going to Godric's Hollow, but so willingly followed the old woman, despite her odd behavior. It is uncertain if Harry can ever show that much faith in the unknown again.

Readers can again see to what extremes the despicable Rita Skeeter will go to obtain information. She likely used some magical means, probably a memory charm or [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Veritaserum|Veritaserum]], to extract the vulnerable Bathilda's faulty memories, then stole the photographs for her book. Skeeter may also be indirectly responsible for poor Bathilda's death, as Voldemort apparently surmised that Skeeter's book would lure Harry to Godric's Hollow and Bathilda to seek information, prompting Voldemort to murder her and set the trap that nearly ensnared Harry and probably would have killed Hermione. It is of course possible that Bathilda died of natural causes, or that she died of shock when Voldemort appeared at her home, and Voldemort simply took advantage of the situation; but it is likely that it was Skeeter's book that drew Voldemort's attention to Godric's Hollow.

Although Harry assures Hermione she is blameless for breaking his wand, he is clearly upset and angry with her, leaving Hermione in tears and driving an invisible wedge between them. As with [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Remus Lupin|Lupin]] [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Deathly Hallows/Chapter 11|earlier]], Harry's immediate reaction is undeservedly harsh, especially considering Hermione risked own her life to save his. However, Harry, believing that his wand is his only hope against Voldemort, is devastated by his wand'sits loss, and his logical thinking (and gratitude) has been temporarily overruled by displaced anger and grief, though he quickly realizes Hermione was not at fault.

It should also be mentioned that when Harry hears or speaks [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Parseltongue|Parseltongue]], he is unable to distinguish it from English – we first saw this when the boa constrictor at the zoo spoke to him in [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Philosopher's Stone/Chapter 2|''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'']], and explicitly as far back as [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Chamber of Secrets/Chapter 16|''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'']], where Harry had to imagine he was seeing a living snake before the words he spoke to the Chamber's entrance would emerge in Parseltongue. This explains why Harry was unaware anything was amiss when Nagini, disguised as Bathilda, called from the other room, while Hermione was suddenly startled. Harry heard "Bathilda" saying, "Come", while all Hermione detected was a strange hissing noise.