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CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
HERMIONE: Neato! So you'll be out to destroy Voldemort!
HARRY: Well, I have been trying to do that for years, but yes. So, what's new around here?
RON: Lavender and I broke up. No biggie. Ginny and Dean too. ...Harry? You still with us?
HARRY: I wasn't thinking about your sister! Don't hit me!
RON: What?
HARRY: ...nothing...
HARRY obsesses about his romantic dilemma for a while. The book says, and I quote, "The battle still raged inside his head: Ginny or Ron?" As a consequence, several dirty-minded READERS snicker. Then he swings into the 7th-floor boys' bathroom and finds DRACO sobbing at one of the sinks while MOANING MYRTLE tries to console him.
HARRY/DRACO SHIPPERS: (nearly fainting) Oh my God, it's the best hurt/comfort setup ever!!! Hug him!! Hug him!!!
and
DUMBLEDORE: Don't disturb the water.
HARRY: Big thing with tentacles going to reach out and grab me?
DUMBLEDORE: We'll find out when we take this boat into the water to get the Horcrux.
They start gliding out into the lake in the world's dinkiest lifeboat.
HARRY: Professor! There are dead things, dead faces, in the water!
DUMBLEDORE: I swear to Godric Gryffindor, Harry, if you don't stop quoting 'Lord of the Rings', I'm going to throw you in.