In this chapter... Ron and Hermione still aren’t speaking – although Ron and Lavender are still constantly kissing, Professor Slughorn announces he is hosting a Christmas party, so Harry has no excuse not to join. Lots and lots of girls are eager to be Harry’s date for Slughorn’s party – in particular, a younger Gryffindor, Romilda Vane. Harry decides, on an impulse, to invite Luna Lovegood to go to the party with him. Hermione goes with Cormac McLaggen – but only to annoy Ron.
The party is not as bad as Harry expected. It improves when Filch, the caretaker, drags Draco Malfoy into the party. He has found Draco lurking about, trying to gatecrash the party. Professor Snape takes Draco away, to reprimand him – Harry can’t resist following them, under the Invisibility Cloak and listening to their conversation. Snape questions Malfoy about what he is up to – but Malfoy won’t tell him. Malfoy refuses Snape’s help, even after Snape says that he made an Unbreakable Vow with his mother, to help Draco. Harry is finding it hard to get his head around what he has heard.
“The Aurors are part of the Rotfang Conspiracy, I thought everyone knew that. They’re working to bring down the Ministry of Magic from within using a combination of Dark Magic and gum disease.” –
With whom does Harry go to Professor Slughorn's party? Luna Lovegood
Chapter 16: A Very Frosty Christmas
In this chapter... It is the Christmas Holidays – Harry is at the Burrow with the rest of the Weasleys (except for Charlie and Percy). Ron and Harry discuss the conversation of Snape and Malfoy’s. Ron says if anybody breaks an Unbreakable Vow, they die. Harry is convinced that Malfoy is working for the Death Eaters, as well as Snape. However, when Harry discusses with Remus Lupin and Arthur Weasley, they both say they trust Snape – Snape must had questioned Malfoy on Professor Dumbledore’s orders.
When everybody is eating Christmas dinner, on Christmas Day, there are two very unexpected visitors to the Burrow – Rufus Scrimgeour and Percy Weasley. Scrimgeour is obviously there to have a private chat with Harry, and is using Percy as an excuse to get to see him. While walking in the garden, with Harry, Scrimgeour tries to persuade Harry to come to the Ministry’s side, to show people that the Ministry is fighting against Lord Voldemort. Harry politely tells him that he supports Dumbledore more than the Ministry – and won’t tell Scrimgeour where Professor Dumbledore mysteriously disappears too.
Fred, George, Harry, and Ron were the only ones who knew that the angel on top of the tree was actually a garden gnome that had bitten Fred on the ankle as he pulled up carrots for Christmas dinner. Stupefied, painted gold, stuffed into a miniature tutu and with small wings glued to its back, it glowered down at them all, the ugliest angel Harry had ever seen, with a large bald head like a potato and rather hairy feet.
Harry spends Christmas with the Weasley’s, at The Burrow. Who are the two unexpected visitors on Christmas Day? Percy Weasley and Rufus Scrimgeour
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