Thursday, August 04, 2005

The White Tomb

Akhirnya... selesai juga Bunda baca 'Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince'. Diawali dengan bab berjudul 'The Other Minister' yang bisa bikin kita senyum sendiri (ngebayangin kalo bener2 terjadi) dan ditutup dengan 'The White Tomb' yang cukup menyedihkan, at least for me yang emang gampang terharu :D

Hagrid was walking slowly up the aisle between the chairs. He was crying quite silently, his face gleaming with tears, and in his arms, wrapped in purple velvet spangled with golden stars, was what Harry knew to be Dumbledore's body. A sharp pain rose in Harry's throat at this sight, for a moment, the strange music and the knowledge that Dumbledore's body was so close seemed to take all warmth from the day. Ron looked white and shocked. Tears were falling thick and fast into both Ginny and Hermione's laps.
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Bright, white flames had erupted around Dumbledore's body and the table upon which it lay, higher and higher they rose, obscuring the body. White smoke spiralled into the air and made strange shapes. Harry thought, for one heart-stopping moment, that he saw a phoenix fly joyfully into the blue, but next second the fire had vanished. In its place was a white marble tomb, encasing Dumbledore's body and the table on which he had rested. There were a few more cries of shock as a shower of arrows soared through the air, but they fell far short of the crowd. It was, Harry knew, the centaurs' tribute.

Tiba2 aja mata Bunda terasa panas. Bunda serasa ada disana dan nyaris ikutan nangis hehe. Norak ya, emangnya Bunda kenal ama Dumbledore ? :D JKR bener2 tega, setelah Sirius Black sekarang Dumbledore :( Kenapa nggak Belatrix Lestrange aja ! *dendamkesumat.com* :D

Btw bener kata Tante Nivo, buku ke-6 ini ABG. Banyak tokoh yang jatuh cinta, ada yang pacaran, putus, cemburu, malah ada yang akan nikah :) Kelucuan2 khas serial Harry Potter memang berkurang, mungkin karena sejak buku ke-5 hawanya agak2 serem dan suram. Tapi bukan berarti kelucuan itu gak ada sama sekali :)

The tiny little Charms master was bobbing his way toward them, and Hermione was the only one who had managed to turn vinegar into wine. Her glass was full of deep crimson liquid, whereas the contents of Harry's and Ron's were still murky brown.
"Now, now, boys," squeaked Professor Flitwick reproachfully. "A little less talk, a little more action . . . Let me see you try. . . ."
Together they raised their wands, concentrating with all their might, and pointed them at their glasses. Harry's vinegar turned to ice; Rons glass exploded.
"Yes ... for homework," said Professor Flitwick, reemerging from under the table and pulling shards of glass out of the top of his hat, "practice".

Atau tanggapan Ron waktu dapet undangan pemakaman Aragog dari Hagrid:
"He's mental" he said furiously. "That thing told its mates to eat Harry and me! Told them to help themselves! And now Hagrid expects us to go down there and cry over its horrible hairy body!"
"You didn't meet him, Hermione. Believe me, being dead will have improved him a lot."