Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Chapter Seven:
The Will of Albus Dumbledore

"If these things are important enough to pass on right under the nose of the Ministry, you'd think he'd have let us know why..."

Notes by Michele L. Worley
Page editor Belinda Hobbs

U.S. hardcover edition: pages 111 - 136
U.K. hardcover edition: pages 95 - 114
Timeframe: 31 July, 1997 [Y17]

In which it is Harry's seventeenth birthday, and Rufus Scrimgeour arrives to deliver the bequests of Albus Dumbledore to Harry, Ron, and Hermione in an attempt to pump them for information.

Interesting facts and notes about the text of this chapter:

He was walking along a mountain road in the cool, blue light of dawn.

Since we learn within two paragraphs that the sun has not yet risen at the Burrow, this might help us narrow down the location of the village that Voldemort is about to enter. It's interesting that he's on foot rather than having Apparated.

a mountainous horizon and the outline of the little village cradled in a deep valley

Again, these details might help us narrow down the location.

'I think,' he said slowly, 'he's got something to do with Quidditch. There's some connection, but I can't - I can't think what it is.'

The connection is Viktor Krum - Gregorovitch made Krum's wand, according to Mr. Ollivander during the Weighing of the Wands almost three years previous to this.

(I remembered this before checking the master index or reading any further. Is that sad?)

it'll be because the thirty-one days are up

But would this be thirty-one days since the death, since the funeral, or since the reading of the will? If it is thirty-one days since the death, that gives us another piece of information in determining the date of the battle of the Tower.

Voldemort chased me across three counties

This would have been from Little Whinging to wherever the Tonks' home is (DH4).

Characters introduced in this chapter:

• none

Characters returning in this chapter:

• Delacour, Apolline

• Delacour, Fleur

• Delacour, Gabrielle

• Delacour, Monsieur

• Granger, Hermione Jean

• Hagrid, Rubeus

• Lupin, Remus

• Pigwidgeon

• Potter, Harry James

• Scrimgeour, Rufus

• Tonks, Nymphadora

• Weasley, Arthur

• Weasley, Bill

• Weasley, Charlie

• Weasley, Fred

• Weasley, George

• Weasley, Ginny

• Weasley, Molly

• Weasley, Ronald Bilius

Characters mentioned in this chapter:

• Black, Regulus Arcturus (as R.A.B)

• Brown, Lavender

• Dumbledore, Albus Percival Wulfric Brian

• Dursley, Dudley

• Gorgovitch, Dragomir

• Gregorovitch

• Gryffindor, Godric

• Jones, Gwenog

• Moody, Alastor ("Mad-Eye")

• Norbert (now Norberta)

• Prewitt, Fabian

• Riddle, Tom (as Heir of Slytherin, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, Voldemort, You-Know-Who)

Settings and locations introduced or returning in this chapter:

• Burrow, the

• a village somewhere in Europe (in Harry's vision)

Settings and locations mentioned in this chapter:

• Azkaban

• Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

• Hut-on-the-Rock

Exceptional character moments:

• to come...

Spells:

• Accio

• Expecto Patronum (Patronus)

• flesh memories (not a spell per se, although invoked by spell(s) - cross-reference with Snitch, Golden)

• hair, spell to regrow - Ron suspects Charlie will use one

• messenger spell

• Muffliato

• Trace, the

• wand effects - purple and gold streamers

Links and Resources:

• ancient runes

• Bestiary

  • dragons

  • moke

  • unicorns

• books

  • Tales of Beedle the Bard, The

  • Twelve Fail-Safe Ways to Charm Witches

• Harry's dreams

• items and devices

  • Dark items

  • Deluminator

  • Marauder's Map

  • posters

  • Sneakoscope

  • Quaffle

  • razor, enchanted

  • Slytherin's locket (false one)

  • Snitch, Golden
    Carries an enchantment whereby it can identify the first human to lay hands upon it, in case of a disputed capture, so it is not touched by bare skin before it is released, even by its maker (DH7).

  • Sorting Hat

  • sword of Godric Gryffindor

  • mirror, two-way

  • watch

  • Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes

• law (Decree for Justifiable Confiscation)

• Legilimency

• music, rhymes, and dance - the Weird Sisters

• Peruvian Instant Darkness Powder

• Quidditch

• Quidditch teams - Great Britain and Ireland (Chudley Cannons, Holyhead Harpies)

Memorable lines:

• Harry thought that answering questions correctly was such a deeply ingrained habit she could not suppress the urge.

• "A brutal triple murder by the bridegroom's mother might put a bit of a damper on the wedding."

Strictly British:

• bloke

• camp-bed

• cooker

• dustbin

• first floor

• gate-crashing

• marquee

• mental

• messing [someone] around

• pants

• sitting room

• snog

• sun had gone in

• trainers

Timelines/Calendar:

Harry's birthday is 31 July.