Monday, December 15, 2008
Act of Treason Blog (chapters 24-29)
This weeks post starts with Rapp in a crappy apartment just crashing because he was basically born to do this job and he doesn't want credit so he's laying low for now. Then Brooks goes to a meeting where she is introduced to a new person named Juarez. Then it flips to Stu Garrett, a man we have not seen in the book for a while, at his work place. Then someone by the name of Speyer calls and tells him to meet up with him because they have a major problem. The problem was that Gazich had been caught and the CIA might be able to track him down to Garrett. At this point in the book, we may conclude that Garrett had hired Gazich to kill the president-elect, but blew up the wrong car, because Garrett was the campaign head for the opposing side. Then back to Kennedy, Juarez, McMahon and Brooks. Now they are in a huge arguement about what to do with Gazich because they have no real evidence that Gazich did anything except a confession that was tortured out of him. Rapp then visits Gazich's bank where he talks to the teller and reveals that Gazich had not been fully paid because he did not actually kill Alexander and Rapp tries to take the money givin to Gazich by the employers but instead leaves it. Then it goes back to the Kennedy-Juarez-McMahon-Brooks situation, just dealing with the media. This book is by far one of the better books I've read in my lifetime. So many twists and turns and action. It blows my mind. Amazing. I think when all of this wraps up, Garrett will get owned by Rapp somehow.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Act of Treason Blog (chapters 19-23)
This week's blog is chapters 19-23. The beginning. Alexander(president elect) reignites his hatred towards the terrorist that killed his wife after hearing the news that he had been captured and in captivity. Alexander then asks for the person who will be credited and wants to meet Mitch Rapp. But Rapp hates the limelight and wouldn't appreciate it if the president elect congratulated him. Then Kennedy meets up with Rapp and they talk but when Rapp confesses that he had tortured Gazich into confessing, Kennedy becomes infuriated. Later Rapp finds out that the media had caught on to this and Alexander announced he would have Gazich in court. But then they realize that they have no evidence except a confession that was brought out by torture tactics. Brooks, Rapp's partner, starts to panic about the press. Then it shifts to a scene where Gazich is being formally interrogated by Rapp, Rapp learns a bunch of stuff and then Rapp gets off and runs away from the press. This span of chapters was quite interesting because the stories of Gazich are starting to tie together and it's fun. But most of this was random oring talk so that wasn't fun, otherwise this book is getting really interesting. I think that Gazich will be interrogated many more times and I think he will keep his cool even though he has like a billion people who want him to die and rot in jail or something. I think Rapp will try to avoid the media but he will eventually have to come out and tell everybody. This concludes the Act of Treason Blog (chapters 19-23).
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Ethics Question Blog
Research Question:
Should prisoners be locked away from other prisoners, or should they all be able to have contact with each other?
Johnson, Kevin. "From Extreme Isolation, Waves of Felons Are Freed." USA Today Dec 2002: 1A+. SIRS Researcher. SIRS Knowledge Source. Edina High School. 5 Dec 2008 http://www.sirs.com.
Kevin Johnson is a writer whose article showed up in USA Today. He talks about the sole confinement of prisoners and their separation from other prisoners. A term more likely known as solitary confinement. Johnson speaks of how confinement does not help the behavior of prisoners but instead it enrages them and makes them as humanly violent as possible. He also argues that the 95% of people who will come out of jail sometime should not be confined by them self, because since that is creating what could be a psychotic killer, once they come out of prison they may be an even greater threat to society then what they should have been or were. Johnson also states that along with the separation, we also deny the prisoners the chance of education for rehabilitation. He disagrees with solitary confinement solely on the belief that this will create a more violent person.
Tyre, Peg. "Trend toward solitary confinement worries experts." CNN Interactive. 5 Dec 2008. http://www.cnn.com/US/9801/09/solitary.confinement/.
Peg Tyre a writer for CNN writes an article on the rising issue of the effects of solitary confinement on the prisoners. She argues that solitary confinement causes death more by psychological problems then physical. She also argues that the people in solitary confinement will develop many mental issues and if they are to get out of prison one day, then they will leave in a worse condition then they entered. The isolation from other people will slowly drive the prisoners crazy and they will eventually become severely depressed and it may even cause suicide. This will create a being that is more likely to hurt another she says. Her stance on solitary confinement is clearly against it. Her arguments of how people's minds will slowly deteriorate clearly shows
Should prisoners be locked away from other prisoners, or should they all be able to have contact with each other?
Johnson, Kevin. "From Extreme Isolation, Waves of Felons Are Freed." USA Today Dec 2002: 1A+. SIRS Researcher. SIRS Knowledge Source. Edina High School. 5 Dec 2008 http://www.sirs.com.
Kevin Johnson is a writer whose article showed up in USA Today. He talks about the sole confinement of prisoners and their separation from other prisoners. A term more likely known as solitary confinement. Johnson speaks of how confinement does not help the behavior of prisoners but instead it enrages them and makes them as humanly violent as possible. He also argues that the 95% of people who will come out of jail sometime should not be confined by them self, because since that is creating what could be a psychotic killer, once they come out of prison they may be an even greater threat to society then what they should have been or were. Johnson also states that along with the separation, we also deny the prisoners the chance of education for rehabilitation. He disagrees with solitary confinement solely on the belief that this will create a more violent person.
Tyre, Peg. "Trend toward solitary confinement worries experts." CNN Interactive. 5 Dec 2008. http://www.cnn.com/US/9801/09/solitary.confinement/.
Peg Tyre a writer for CNN writes an article on the rising issue of the effects of solitary confinement on the prisoners. She argues that solitary confinement causes death more by psychological problems then physical. She also argues that the people in solitary confinement will develop many mental issues and if they are to get out of prison one day, then they will leave in a worse condition then they entered. The isolation from other people will slowly drive the prisoners crazy and they will eventually become severely depressed and it may even cause suicide. This will create a being that is more likely to hurt another she says. Her stance on solitary confinement is clearly against it. Her arguments of how people's minds will slowly deteriorate clearly shows
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Act of Treason Blog (chapters 13-18)
This chapters picks up right as Mitch Rapp busts into a building and captures some random old guy. He interrogates the old man finding out that behind a door, Gazich was interrogating a Russian. Rapp slowly prepares for a 4 shot disarm, 1 to each arm and leg. Rapp busts the door open and perfectly executes the 4 shot disarm on Gazich. Next to Gazich was a Russian guy tied up pleading for Rapp's help but Rapp told him to shut up. As the Russian blabbered on, trying to persuade Rapp into letting him go with riches, Rapp called back up. Rapp finally got tired and shot the chair the Russian was sitting in, a mere 2 inches from his groin. Then the Russian says he is on the USA's side. Gazich, bloody on the floor, starts to argue saying the Russian is part of a Russian Mob. Rapp calls Kennedy and asks for assistance on the scene, and a plane out of the country ASAP. Rapp turns around and asks Gazich who hired him. Later Rapp is about to leave for the US but has to deal with a dead Russian, a tied up Russian and a bloody, crippled terrorist. Then it turns to a scene where Kennedy is basically informing the president about what had gone on in Cyprus(Rapp's situation). On the plane, Brooks(Rapp's partner) and Rapp decide to talk about their problems and how their parents died etc. Then Rapp leaves the room and interrogates Gazich and basically torturing him saying that if he answered all of Rapp's questions he would get a shot of morphine. It's so common to find the main character of a book to be lonely, sarcastic and extremely good at something and that makes a book kind of boring sometimes but this book has not gotten worse, in fact it has gotten really good and I don't want to stop reading it but I have more important things to do. I really like the way that Vince Flynn writes, his style never makes you bored, it is either nonstop action or puzzling together stuff which is really fun to read. That concludes chapters 13-18, Act of Treason Blog.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Act of Treason Blog part 3 (chapters 7-13)
The chapters start out with Rapp having a stakeout in front of a building where there are suspicious figures in a van. Then one of them comes out and a guy from the building comes out and gives the van guy some money. Then Rapp calls for back up. Then the scene shifts to Gazich, the terrorist bomber. He decides something is wrong and decides to leave Cyprus soon. Then it switches once again to Rapp (starting to get a bit annoying). Rapp waits and scouts out the scene when all of a sudden some guy dressed like the suspicious guy in a security tape right before the bombing of the car. Rapp realizes that this guy may be the same guy and looks closer. At closer examination, Rapp realizes that the man who just arrived had silently killed the men in the truck and was talking to dead bodies to avoid suspicion. Then the man went into an apartment building. Rapp waits a couple minutes and realizes this man might be trying to snipe people watching him. At that moment he recieves a phone call saying that the suspicious man was Gazich and he was a sniper expert. Rapp backs away from the window and goes over to the apartment building. Then the scene switches to Gazich. Gazich is in his apartment office which is actually the same building as the one that the man came out of earlier (money exchange guy). The guy who exchanged the money was Andreas, Gazich's good friend. Then back to Rapp. Rapp calls for backup but they can't get there soon enough so Rapp decides to go solo. He enters the apartment and goes up, passing many suspicous people. At a door, Rapp sees someone. He thinks it might be a Russian but it is actually Andreas and he threatens him and that is the end of the chapter. I now understand why the point of view keeps switching and I think that it is a very good thing to do and it makes this story a lot more exciting. The action in this book is amazing and the suspense is KILLER. The way everything fits in like a puzzle is very nice as well. Overall, I'm starting to really like this book. That concludes Act of Treason Blog Part 3.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Act Of Treason Blog Part 2 (chapters 3-7)
In these chapters they had already hired a man named Mitch Rapp to find out stuff about the terrorist and he has a partner named Cindy. They go undercover at a restaurant and they fake a fight while observing a suspect there. Then it goes to a man named Ross, the vice president, and he is at a party and then the host asks him to follow him to a secret place and then it shifts back to another scene. This scene is a scene where Gazich, the terrorist, is actually bombing the car. It tells of how he hid behind a tree and how he wore a red hat etc. After that it shifts back to the scene with Ross. Ross goes witht he host into the host's sacred wine cellar and waiting for Ross is Cyrus Green, a man that Ross had hired for something not yet exposed in the book. They argue and Green decides that if Ross is going back on his word then Green will ruin his re-election somehow. This book is kind of hard to read with all of the sudden new characters and the switching between scenes, but it is very exciting and it's starting to be like a puzzle and the book is just showing some of the pieces. Somehow I think that every single one of these scenes have to do with eachother and they will all come together and make a interesting situation. Yes, and this Mitch Rapp guy seems like one of those I'm-good-at-everything-don't-mess-with-me-or-I'll-actually-kill-you type of guys. He actually seems to be very good at what he's doing but something seems to be bothering him. That concludes Act of Treason Blog part 2.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Quarter 2 Blog 1: Vince Flynn's Act of Treason Part 1 (chapters 1 and 2)
This time I am blogging about Vince Flynn's Act of Treason rather than a book that Mrs. Jarrett's daughter is reading. So far in the book, a terrorist attack on the president-elect Alexander fails. A terrorist sets a bomb under a vehicle which was thought to contain the president-elect but didn't and it blows up and kills the president-elect's wife instead. Later on, Agent Kennedy then discusses the national problem with another FBI agent by the name of McMahon. They discuss what had happened and why it might have occurred. Then a man by the name of Baker arrives and has privite business with McMahon. Kennedy leaves and Baker takes out an envelope. Then he pulls out some graphic pictures of Alexander's wife and one of her security guards and explains that this could completely ruin Alexander's chances of winning the election. Then Baker leaves, Kennedy comes in and talks to McMahon again. Then Kennedy suggests special agent Mitch Rapp for the case and the chapter ends. This book is EXTREMELY more exciting than Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The first two chapters already have me excited, unlike Harry Potter where you can already kind of tell what the next step is going to be. This kind of excitement is portaid by this quote, "Before Rivera could give it another thought, there was a thunderous explosion, the limousine started to rise in the air, and then everything went black." (Prelude, P. 26). Not only does this quote want to make you read about what comes up next, it also paints a vivid picture of an explosion of a car in your head. In all these movies you actually see a car blowing up, rising into the air and black smoke spewing everywhere. In other books I've read, explosions are dull like, "The car exploded and it caught on fire." Or "I saw the explosion of the car and the smoke went everywhere." Seriously. But so far Vince Flynn's style of writing has caught my attention and let's hope there's more of that later on in the book. That concludes Part 1 of my blog, come back next week for another one. Kohp Chai (That means thanks you in Lao).
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 8? (Chapter 22, last blog was chapters 20-21)
In this chapter, Harry and Ron and Hermoine all have escaped Xeno's house. Once they are in a safe spot they debate whether the Hallows are real or not, Hermoine says its a bunch of bologna and Harry says its real and becomes extremely obsessive with it. Then Harry reminicences some times. First, Harry remembers that when he viewed images in Dumbledore's Pensieve of Voldemort's grandfather Gaunt, Gaunt said he was the descendant of the Peverells and claimed that their symbol was on his ring. Harry puts these pieces together and decides that Gaunt must be the descendant of one of the three brothers in the tale, and that the Resurrection Stone is the stone that was in the ring—and that Dumbledore must have hidden it for Harry inside the Snitch, whichthey haven't opened yet. Harry then realizes that Voldemort was tracking Ollivander, Gregorovitch, and now Grindelwald because he wants the Elder Wand.Finally, Harry decides that his Invisibility Cloak must be the cloak in the story, and that he himself must be descended from the third brother in the story. He remembers that in the letter fragment from his mother, she mentions that Dumbledore had borrowed the Cloak. Harry thinks that Dumbledore must have known that it was one of the Hallows and must have wanted to get them all. Harry is seized by the idea that if he gathers the Hallows himself, he will finally be powerful enough to defeat Voldemort, whose Horcruxes will be no match for the Hallows.
Then he thinks that Voldemort didnt know about the wand being an artifact because Voldemort was raised in a muggle place. And because if Voldemort knew about them then he would have chased them instead of making his Horcruxes. Harry is super obessesed and wants to chase after them but Hermoine and Ron told him that Dumbledore's instructions were to destroy the Horcruxes, not go after the Hallows. then Harry obsesses about what he could do with the Resurrection Stone and the Elder Wand. Using the Stone to question Dumbledore and the Wand to free Luna from Azkaban. Over the next few days the bond between Harry and Ron and Hermione weakens.One night, Ron manages to tune into “Potterwatch,” made by members of the Order of the Phoenix. Harry, Hermione, and Ron listen as wizards they know give out news of the outside world . Ted Tonks was killed. Xeno is in prison; Hagrid was almost arrested but escaped and Muggles are being murdered by Death Eaters in great numbers. Then Harry says Voldemort and Death Eaters surround his tent because of the jinx thing on his name. I liked this chapter because the drama is starting up again and more backround has been added to the quest. I think they will barely escape the D.E. this time again.
Then he thinks that Voldemort didnt know about the wand being an artifact because Voldemort was raised in a muggle place. And because if Voldemort knew about them then he would have chased them instead of making his Horcruxes. Harry is super obessesed and wants to chase after them but Hermoine and Ron told him that Dumbledore's instructions were to destroy the Horcruxes, not go after the Hallows. then Harry obsesses about what he could do with the Resurrection Stone and the Elder Wand. Using the Stone to question Dumbledore and the Wand to free Luna from Azkaban. Over the next few days the bond between Harry and Ron and Hermione weakens.One night, Ron manages to tune into “Potterwatch,” made by members of the Order of the Phoenix. Harry, Hermione, and Ron listen as wizards they know give out news of the outside world . Ted Tonks was killed. Xeno is in prison; Hagrid was almost arrested but escaped and Muggles are being murdered by Death Eaters in great numbers. Then Harry says Voldemort and Death Eaters surround his tent because of the jinx thing on his name. I liked this chapter because the drama is starting up again and more backround has been added to the quest. I think they will barely escape the D.E. this time again.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 7 (Chapter 20)
Harry and the rest of the gang find out about the Deathly Hallows and think it has to do with bad magic, but X(Xenophilius) disagrees and says its about how wizards use the symbol to say "Oh yeah I believe in this legend" etc. Then Hermoine opens her book from Albus Dumbledore and reads about the Deathly Hallow. Here's the story:
Three brothers were traveling when they came to a river. They made a bridge using magic and when they were halfway Death came up and talked to them. Death was pretty angry about being cheated or something but congratulated the 3 by giving them stuff . The oldest brother asked for a wand that would always win duels. Death gave him a special wand. The second asked for the power resurrect. Death gave him a stone. The youngest brother asked for an item that would hide him and let him escape from Death himself. Death gave him his invisibility cloak. Then later on the eldest died because he bragged too much and got murdered in his sleep, the second brother tried to resurrect his old love but found out that it wasn't worth it and killed himself to be with her. The third brother lived on and passed his cloak down to his son and died peacefully.
X explains that the Elder Wand, the Resurrection Stone, and the Cloak of Invisibility are the Deathly Hallows. If you got all three of these items then you would become master of death. Hermoine doesn't believe that they exist and X points out Harry's cloak is exactly like the one in the legend. X doesn't have proof for the stone but there have been rumors of the wand and how it's owner kept getting killed. Hermoine asks if they had to do with these Peverell guys. X says lots of people thought the 3 brothers were them. Then X calls the Ministry and they all get into a fight once the death eaters arrive. X then tries to hit Harry with a spell, then he misses and hits this explosive horn and the death eaters get mad and Hermoine dissaperates everyone.
This chapter was only interesting because of the three brother's story, the rest was boring. In the 3 Bro's story I was thinking that the 2 dead brothers were dumb in thinking that Death would congratulate them and not have any twist to it. Death is a portrayed as tricky and cunnning in basically every story. It just kind of made me mad that the two brothers actually fell for Death's trick. Overall, 3 Bros was good, rest was bad.
Three brothers were traveling when they came to a river. They made a bridge using magic and when they were halfway Death came up and talked to them. Death was pretty angry about being cheated or something but congratulated the 3 by giving them stuff . The oldest brother asked for a wand that would always win duels. Death gave him a special wand. The second asked for the power resurrect. Death gave him a stone. The youngest brother asked for an item that would hide him and let him escape from Death himself. Death gave him his invisibility cloak. Then later on the eldest died because he bragged too much and got murdered in his sleep, the second brother tried to resurrect his old love but found out that it wasn't worth it and killed himself to be with her. The third brother lived on and passed his cloak down to his son and died peacefully.
X explains that the Elder Wand, the Resurrection Stone, and the Cloak of Invisibility are the Deathly Hallows. If you got all three of these items then you would become master of death. Hermoine doesn't believe that they exist and X points out Harry's cloak is exactly like the one in the legend. X doesn't have proof for the stone but there have been rumors of the wand and how it's owner kept getting killed. Hermoine asks if they had to do with these Peverell guys. X says lots of people thought the 3 brothers were them. Then X calls the Ministry and they all get into a fight once the death eaters arrive. X then tries to hit Harry with a spell, then he misses and hits this explosive horn and the death eaters get mad and Hermoine dissaperates everyone.
This chapter was only interesting because of the three brother's story, the rest was boring. In the 3 Bro's story I was thinking that the 2 dead brothers were dumb in thinking that Death would congratulate them and not have any twist to it. Death is a portrayed as tricky and cunnning in basically every story. It just kind of made me mad that the two brothers actually fell for Death's trick. Overall, 3 Bros was good, rest was bad.
Monday, October 20, 2008
Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows (Ch 16-20) Part 6
In these chapters, Harry and Hermoine try not to think of Ron and wait for him because if they dissaperate they will lose him, and they start to talk to Phineas' portrait and find out that Ginny and the rest of them back at Hogwarts are trying to keep Dumbledore's Army alive. Then Hermoine shows Harry the triangle-eye sign and Harry decides that they should go to Godric's Hallow. Hermoine agrees because she thinks that is where the sword of Gryffendor is and Harry wants to go see Bathilda Bagshot. Harry and Hermione go to Godric's Hollow disguised as Muggles—wearing the Invisibility Cloak. It is Christmas Eve and they go to the graveyard and see Dumbledore's parent's graves. Hermione finds a grave that has the triangular symbol on it, beneath the name Ignotus Peverell But Harry goes and looks for the grave of Lily and James Potter. Then Harry puts something o n his parents grave and they leave. Then an old woman beckons them into her house. Harry and Hermoine think that is Bathilda but when she brings him into her house they start to wonder. Then she takes Harry upstairs and Harry has a vision that this is a a trap and he is correct. Bathilda was actually Nagini, Voldemort's snake. Then Hermoine comes upstairs and saves Harry. Voldemort arrives just as Harry and Hermoine dissaperate and he is pretty mad. Harry has a vision about the day that his parents die. Harry wakes up and his wand is broken and angrily stands watch. Then Harry gets mad at Dumbledore for not telling him enough. Then Harry reads Rita Skeeters book on Dumbledore and after that Hermoine reminds him that Rita is a liar and that Dumbledore loved Harry. Then Harry sees a doe and is led to a lake where the Gryffendor sword is at the bottom. Harry tries to go in but the Horcrux chokes him and Ron saves him and gets the sword. Then Ron destroys the Horcrux and Hermoine asks how he found them. Then Ron says he followed the deluminator and Hermoine accepts his apology. Ron tells them about the trace on Voldemort's name and they decide to go to Luna's dads house where he agrees to help and tells them that the sign is the sign of the deathly hallows. These chapters were full of drama and they were so far the best of the chapters. I think Luna's dad will betray them and they will confront Voldemort again soon and that Ron and Hermoine will make up.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Blog part 5 (ch 12-15)
In these chapters, Kreacher becomes a very helpful house elf, cleaning, cooking etc. And Snape becomes Headmaster of Hogwarts and 2 deatheaters are placed as teachers there. Hermoine quickly remembers the painting of Phineas Black and how he could go from his painting to the one at Hogwarts and puts it away in her bag so that people wont be able to spy on them. Then the group of HRH (Harry, Ron, Hermoine) stalk ministry staff and Harry anounces that they should break into it the next day. Then Harry has a vision that Voldemort kills more people, while on his search for Gregorovitch. Hermoine yells at him again and the next day they invade the ministry with the polyjuice plan. ROn is mistaken for someone and is sent to the court that his "wife" is in. Then Umbridge takes Hermoine out of the group and Harry is confonted by Thicknesse. Harry then sneaks into Umbridge's office and looks for the locket. Then he leaves to the court where Ron and Hermoine are. Umbridge has the locket on her, and Harry gets mad and shoots spells at people and they take the locket and save some people and leave. Harry wakes up in the forest where he finds out Ron is injured and that the safe house has been captured by Yaxley. After that they make a tent and put protective charms around it and they question how to break the horcrux and where the other ones are. Again Harry has a vision that Voldemort kills someone, this time its Grgorovitch. They take turns holding the Horcrux because it makes whoever wears it really grumpy. A couple days later Hermoin and Ron argue and then they hear Tonk's father and 2 goblins talking about how Genny, Neville and Luna tried to steal the Gryffendor's sword but got caught and punished and the sword was a fake and was sent to Gringots. They interrogate Phineas and then Ron gets frustrated at Harry's lack of a plan and decides to leave. Ron leaving really made me sad and how he was actually a very big part in their adventures. These last chapters have been really sad but very exciting. I personally hate the parts where Harry has visions because to me they are really boring and kind of stupid. I know that they are essential to the plot but it's just not enjoyable to read. That concludes Harrry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Blog Part 5.
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Blog Part 4 (chapters 8-11)
Harry attends Bill's wedding disguised as a relative of Ron's. Then Viktor Krum comes and talks to Harry about the wand maker Grindelwald and Viktor is offended by Lovegood. Harry then goes to talk to Doge and tries to get some info but Ron's aunt Muriel interrupts them and goes on about Dumbledore's past life and Harry is appalled. Then the wedding is cut short by a silver lynx patronus saying that the death eaters are coming and the Ministry is down. Then Harry, Ron, and Hermoine dissaperate and go into a bar where 2 death eaters attack them. They escape and decide to go to Sirius' old house. The Harry has a vision again. After that, Harry goes into Sirius' room and looks around and finds a letter to Sirius from his mother and finds out that his parents knew a woman named Bathilda Bagshot and Harry makes his mind up that he wants to go and find out more about her. Then the group finds out about Sirius' brother R.A.D. and how he was the one who took the lock, then Kreacher tells them a story about R.A.D and the lock. Kreacher leaves and Lupin arrives and Harry gets into a fight with Lupin about him being a coward and Lupin leaves. Then Kreacher arrives with Mudungus and he admits he had the lock but then Umbridge confiscated it. I didn't really like these chapters because again, there wasn't enough action in it, which is a big part in why I still read HP books. I think that Hermoine will get caught up in something because of the new Mudblood hunt and I think that something bad will happen between the realtionships of Harry and Ron and Hermoine.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Harry Potter and The Deathly Hollows Blog Part 3 (Chapters 5-7)
In chapters 5-7, Harry arrives at the home of Tonk's parents, and Hagrid and himself are healed of the wounds from the chase. Harry promises to find out what had happened to their daughter Tonks and they all travel to the Weasley's home, where they find a very nervous Mrs. Weasley. Then Lupin arrives with George who had his ear blasted off and Lupin questions Harry about his true identity. Lupin warns Harry not to use the disarming spell because it has become a signature move of his and that's why everyone knew he was the real Harry. Everyone else arrives and they talk about how Fletcher ditched Moody and left him to die. Harry has another Voldemort vision and Hermoine tells him to stop with the mental links. Harry tries to put away Moody's death by finding the Horcruxes, and he tries to talk with Hermoine and Ron about it but Mrs. Weasley keeps them busy with chores for Bill and Fleurs wedding so that they cannot get chance to talk. Finally they get a chance to talk and Ron and Hermoine surprise Harry on their plans. Hermoine bewitched her parents into changing their names, moving to Australia and forgetting they had a daughter, while Ron gives a ghoul his pajamas and gives it red hair so that everyone will think that it is Ron who is sick. Hermoine reveals that she had stolen books on the Horcruxes and that Voldemort wont try to assemble the Horcruxes or he will suffer great pain, and later Harry feels really guilty about all the trouble everyone is going through just for him. Then Harry has a dream about Gregorvitch, and he realizes he can use magic now that he is 17, and his party is interrupted by Scrimgeour and he talks about Dumbledores will. Harry is given a snitch and the sword(but Scrimgeour says it wasn't Dumbledore's to give) and Hermoine gets a book, and Ron gets a Deluminator. Then Harry opens the snitch and it gives him a hint. I love these chapters, they were so mysterious and awesome. Also I think Harry will get the sword another way somehow.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Harry Potter and The Deathly Hollows Blog part 2 (chapters 2-4(Last blog was only chapter one))
In this chapter, Harry starts out by going to clean up a cut caused by a mirror that was given to him by Sirius. He returns to his room to organize the things that he is going to keep and things that he won't (things from Hogwarts from when he was younger). Then he picks up a newspaper and reads about the amazing life of Dumbledore and he starts to regret the fact that he did not ask Dumbledore so many things. After reading that he reads an article about the life and lies of Dumbledore written by Rita Skeeter and he becomes sick of the article so he puts it down. Then he looks into the shard of the mirror and sees a glimmering blue light which reminded him of Dumbledore, but he thought he was just imagining it. Then he goes downstairs to see that Mr. Dursley had changed his mind and didn't believe Harry. Then Harry explains that once he turns 17, the charm will go out and then the Death Eaters will come and torture the Dursleys. At the moment Dudley speaks up and says that he believes Harry and is going (which meant the other Dursleys had to go too). Before they leave, Dudley comes and tells Harry what he really thinks about him, and Harry realizes that Dudley was greatful that he was saved and is touched by Dudley. Then Harry meets his traveling team, but they changed the plan because Pius had betrayed them. Now their plan is 6 different Potters and 6 different destinations. The real Harry went with Hagrid. Once they left they immediately came in contact with several death eaters. They start to fling out killing curses at the team and kill Hedwig. Voldemort knowing the real Harry charged at him to kill him personally. Hagrid jumps off onto a death eater and Harry saves himself with another spell that he doesn't know at the last second. Then he crashes into the ground and breaks the bike. I think in the next chapter the casualties and injuries of the fligth will be revealed and everyone will discuss stuff. I liked these chapters because they were action packed and very thrilling, but I kind of thought chapter 2 was kind of useless and boring. That concludes the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows blog part 2.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Blog 1 (Ch 1-2)
In the first two chapters of the book, Snape and Voldemort and the rest of his followers have a meeting. Snape reveals that Harry Potter is going to move from his safe place to another location on a day, but Yaxely, another member, disagrees. Voldemort takes Snape's side though and Yaxely desperately tries to impress Voldemort. Then the Malfoys come out and Voldemort senses their uncomfort around him and teases them about it. Then Wormtail is sent to quiet a prisoner, and then they eventually kill the prisoner who is hanging above the table, who was an Hogwarts teacher. I have not read this book yet but I'm pretty sure I know what's going to happen next though. I think Snape will be right and Yaxely will be shamed. Then they will attack Harry while he is being transported and Harry will have a close call but be saved by some mystical force that he never knew he had or something along the lines of that. But something bad will happen too. Someone will get hurt somehow and not be able to go on any further and not be in the final battle. I really don't think Yaxely is right because he doesn't seem like te type who would know more than Snape, even though it's only been 2 chapters into the book. I didn't really like these chapters because there wasn't really enough action in it. The Harry Potter Books nowadays focus mainly on the twists and turns of how Harry basically has a relation to every single person in the book and it gets kind of tiring. But the book will get better i think. So that concludes the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Blog 1 (Ch 1-2).
Monday, September 15, 2008
Welcome to Asian Culture Club Blog
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