A Wand for Skitter/Funny

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  • From Chapter 55:

The day went quickly after that. It seemed like hardly any time at all before it was the evening, and time for our study group.
"George? Fred?" the Weasley boy almost shrieked. "What are you doing here?"
"We heard you were going to ask young Taylor here out for a date," George said. "And we wanted to see you get disemboweled."

  • Also from Chapter 55:

"We fight because we have to," I said. "And when we don't have to anymore, we'll go back to playing exploding snap. Except me..."
Potter leaned over. "She figured out how to kill someone with ten decks of cards and some gum."
He only thought he was joking. Also, gum wasn't involved.

Also Foreshadowing, as later Taylor uses bugs playing Exploding Snap to set off a keg of gunpowder.
  • Taylor sitting on a throne of skulls, filing her nails, when Voldemort finally enters the Great Hall of Hogwarts. Especially Lucius Malfoy's reaction to the sight:

Lucius glanced at the Dark Lord.
He didn't have a skull throne.

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