Chapter 33 Summary

During his recovery from the confrontation on the train, a period when he is unconscious for long periods of time, Harry has a few flashes of consciousness. In the first, he realizes the Shroud should have torn during the rescue, and another in which he realizes he's being surgically treated in Waldo Butters' morgue and is told by Karrin Murphy that being treated anywhere else would raise too many questions. In the third, he realizes he's in Michael's home, where Michael himself tells him that there is bulletproofing in his armor, and that he's fine. When Harry recovers fuller consciousness, he is given a package sent to him by Shiro, in which Shiro reveals that he was dying of cancer when he substituted himself for Harry, but that he also believed in Harry's good heart (see "Quotes," p. 329).

Meanwhile, Anna Valmont returns the...