Harry
Potter and the Deathly Hallows is the seventh and final of the Harry Potter novels written by British author
J. K. Rowling. The book was released on
21 July 2007 by Bloomsbury Publishing
in the United Kingdom, in the United States by Scholastic,
and in Canada by Raincoast Books,
ending the series that began in 1997 with the publication of Harry
Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. The novel chronicles the
events directly following Harry
Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2005), and the final
confrontation between the wizards Harry Potter
and Lord Voldemort.
Rowling
finished writing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in January 2007.
Before its release, Bloomsbury reportedly spent GB£10 million to keep the book's contents
safe before its release date. American publisher Arthur Levine
refused any copies of the novel to be released in advance for press review,
although two reviews were submitted early. Shortly before release, photos of
all 759 pages of the U.S. edition were leaked and transcribed, leading
Scholastic to look for the source that had leaked it.[citation needed]
Released
globally in 93 countries, Deathly Hallows broke sales records as the
fastest-selling book ever, a record it still holds today.[2] It sold 15 million copies in the
first 24 hours following its release, including more than 11 million in
the U.S. and UK alone. The previous record, 9 million in its first day,
had been held by Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. The novel has
also been translated into over 120 languages, including Ukrainian,
Swedish, and Hindi.
Major
themes in the novel are death and living in a corrupted society, and critics
have compared them to Christian allegories. Generally well-received, the book
won the 2008 Colorado Blue Spruce Book Award, and the American Library
Association named it a "Best Book for Young Adults". A two-part film
adaptation began showing in November 2010 when Harry
Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 was released; Part
2 was released on 15 July 2011.
Plot introduction
Throughout
the six previous novels in the series, the titular character Harry Potter
has struggled with the difficulties of adolescence along with being a famous
wizard. When Harry was a baby, Lord Voldemort, a powerful evil wizard, murdered
Harry's parents but vanished after attempting to kill Harry. Harry immediately
became famous, and was placed in the care of his Muggle (non-magical) relatives Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon.
In
Philosopher's
Stone, Harry re-enters the wizarding world at age 11 and enrolls
in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He
makes friends with Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. Harry also meets the school's
headmaster, Albus Dumbledore,
and Professor Severus Snape, who
dislikes him. Harry fights Voldemort several times while at school, as the
wizard tries to regain a physical form. In Goblet of
Fire, Harry is entered in a dangerous magical competition called
the Triwizard Tournament. At the conclusion of the Tournament, Harry witnesses
the return of Lord Voldemort to full strength. During Order
of the Phoenix, Harry and several of his friends face off
against Voldemort's Death Eaters, a group
of Dark witches and wizards, and narrowly defeat them. In Half-Blood
Prince, Harry learns that Voldemort has created six "horcruxes" to become immortal. A Horcrux is
a fragment of a person's soul placed within an object so that when the body
dies, a part of the soul remains and the person can be regenerated or
resurrected.[3] However, the destruction of the
creator's body leaves the wizard or witch in a state of half-life, without
corporeal form.[4] Two horcruxes have already been
destroyed, one by Harry in the events of Chamber
of Secrets and one by Dumbledore shortly before the events of Half-Blood
Prince. When returning from a mission to discover a horcrux, Dumbledore is
murdered by Snape, a former Death Eater whom Harry suspected of secretly
remaining loyal to Voldemort. At the conclusion of the book, Harry decides to
leave school, find and destroy the remaining four Horcruxes, and defeat the
evil wizard Voldemort, once and for all.
Plot summary
Following
Dumbledore's death, Voldemort continues to gain support and increase his power.
When Harry turns seventeen, the protection he has at his aunt and uncle's house
will be broken. Before that can happen, at Mad Eye Moody's suggestion, Harry
flees to the Burrow with his friends, many of whom use Polyjuice Potion to
impersonate him so as to confuse any Death Eaters that may attack. They are
indeed attacked shortly after leaving Privet Drive; Mad Eye is killed, and
George Weasley wounded, but the rest arrive safely at the Burrow. Ron and
Hermione decide to accompany Harry, instead of returning to Hogwarts School for
their seventh year, to finish the quest Dumbledore started: to hunt and destroy
Voldemort's four remaining Horcruxes. They have little knowledge about the
remaining Horcruxes except that one is a locket once owned by Hogwarts'
co-founder Salazar Slytherin,
one is possibly a cup once owned by co-founder Helga Hufflepuff, a third may be connected with
co-founder Rowena Ravenclaw,
and the fourth may be Nagini,
Voldemort's snake familiar. The
whereabouts of the founders' objects is unknown, and Nagini is presumed to be
with Voldemort. Before leaving, they attend Ron's brother's Bill's wedding to Fleur Delacour, with Harry disguised by Polyjuice
Potion, but the Ministry of Magic
is taken over by Death Eaters during the wedding and they barely escape with
their lives.
Harry,
Ron, and Hermione flee to 12 Grimmauld Place in London, which is Sirius Black's
family's house, where they learn from the house-elf Kreacher the whereabouts of
Salazar Slytherin's locket, which Sirius' brother Regulus stole from Voldemort
at the cost of his own life. They successfully recover this Horcrux by
infiltrating the Ministry of Magic and stealing it from Dolores Umbridge. Under
the object's evil influence and the stress of being on the run, Ron leaves the
others. As Harry and Hermione search for the Horcruxes, they learn more about
Dumbledore's past, including the insanity and death of Dumbledore's younger
sister and his connection to the evil wizard Grindewald. Harry and Hermione
ultimately travel to Godric's Hollow, Harry's birthplace and the place where
his parents died. They meet the eldery magical historian Bathilda Bagshot, who
turns out to be Nagini in disguise and attacks them. They escape into the
Forest of Dean, where a mysterious silver doe that appears to be a Patronus leads Harry to the Sword of
Hogwarts co-founder Godric Gryffindor,
one of the few objects able to destroy Horcruxes, lying at the bottom of an icy
lake. When Harry attempts to recover the sword from the pool, the Horcrux
attempts to kill him. Ron reappears, saving Harry and then using the sword to
destroy the locket. Resuming their search, the trio repeatedly encounter a
strange symbol that an eccentric wizard named Xenophilius Lovegood
tells them represents the mythical Deathly Hallows. The Hallows are three
sacred objects: the Elder Wand, an unbeatable wand; the Resurrection Stone,
with the power to summon the dead to the living world; and an infallible
Invisibility Cloak. Harry learns that Voldemort is seeking the Elder Wand, recognizes the Resurrection Stone
from the second Horcrux, which Dumbledore had destroyed, and realizes that his
own Invisibility Cloak is the one mentioned in the story, but he is unaware of
the Hallows' significance.
The
trio are captured and taken to Malfoy Manor, where Bellatrix Lestrange
tortures Hermione. Harry and Ron are thrown in the cellar, where they find Luna
Lovegood, Ollivander, Dean Thomas, and Griphook. They escape to Shell Cottage
(Bill and Fleur's house) with Dobby's help, but at the cost of the house-elf's
life. Harry now realizes that the Hallows may have the power to defeat Death
and knows that Voldemort robbed Dumbledore's tomb to procure the Elder Wand,
but he decides to focus on finding the Horcruxes instead of the Hallows. With
Griphook's help, they learn that Helga Hufflepuff's cup - a Horcrux - is hidden
in Bellatrix's vault at Gringotts, break into her
vault, retrieve the cup, and escape on a dragon, with Griphook swiping the
sword and escaping on his own. From his connection to Voldemort's thoughts,
Harry learns that another Horcrux is hidden in Hogwarts, which is under the
control of Severus Snape. Harry, Ron, and Hermione enter the school through
Hogsmeade (being saved by Aberforth Dumbledore, who explains more about Albus's
backstory) and - with the help of the teachers - Snape is ousted from the
school. Ron and Hermione go to the Chamber of Secrets and destroy the cup using
a basilisk fang. The trio then finds Rowena Ravenclaw's diadem (another
Horcrux) in the Room of Requirement. Vincent Crabbe casts a Fiendfyre curse in an
attempt to kill Harry, Ron, and Hermione, but he instead destroys the diadem,
the Room of Requirement, and himself. At this point, a total of five Horcruxes
have been destroyed.
The
Death Eaters and Voldemort besiege Hogwarts, while Harry, Ron, Hermione, their
allies, and various magical
creatures defend the school. Several major characters are killed in
the first wave of the battle, including Remus Lupin, Nymphadora Tonks, and Fred Weasley. Voldemort kills Severus Snape
because he believes doing so will make him the Elder Wand's true master, since
Snape killed Dumbledore. Harry discovers while viewing Snape's memories that
Voldemort inadvertently made Harry into a seventh Horcrux when he attacked him
as a baby, which is the true significance of Harry's scar, and that Harry must
die in order to destroy Voldemort. These memories also confirm Snape's
unwavering loyalty to Dumbledore and that his role as a double-agent against
Voldemort never wavered after Voldemort killed Lily Evans, Harry's mother and
Snape's one true love. Harry also learns that Dumbledore had less than a year
to live when he died, that his death by Snape's hand had been per Dumbledore's
request, and that Dumbledore had known that Harry must die. After using the
Resurrection Stone to bring back his deceased loved ones for a short while,
Harry surrenders himself to death at Voldemort's hand. Voldemort casts the Killing Curse at him, but it only sends Harry
into a limbo-like state between life and death.
While
in this state, Dumbledore's spirit explains to Harry that when Voldemort used
Harry's blood to regain his full strength, it protected Harry from Voldemort
killing him; however, the Horcrux inside Harry has been destroyed, and Harry
can return to his body despite being hit by the Killing Curse. Dumbledore also
explains that Harry became the true master of the Deathly Hallows by facing
Death, not by seeking to avoid it or conquer it. Harry returns to his body,
feigning death, and Voldemort marches victoriously into the castle with his
body. However, per Harry's prior instructions, Neville Longbottom
kills Nagini, the last Horcrux, with the Sword of Gryffindor. Harry then
reveals that he is still alive, and the battle resumes, with Bellatrix
Lestrange being killed by Molly Weasley.
Harry
and Voldemort engage in a final climactic duel. Harry reveals that because he
willingly sacrificed himself to death by Voldemort's hand, his act of love
would protect the Wizarding community from Voldemort in the same way the
sacrifice Harry's mother made protected Harry. Harry also reveals that Snape
was not loyal to Voldemort, did not murder Dumbledore, and was never the master
of the Elder Wand. Instead, Draco was the master of the Elder Wand after
disarming Dumbledore, but, because Harry had disarmed Draco at Malfoy Manor,
Harry is the true master of the Elder Wand. Harry claims that the wand will
refuse to kill the one to whom it owes allegiance, further protecting Harry.
During the duel, Harry refuses to use the killing curse and even encourages
Voldemort to feel remorse, one known way to restore Voldemort's shattered soul.
Voldemort dies when his own killing curse backfires against Harry's disarming
curse, killing himself; the Death Eaters are finally defeated. The wizarding world
is able to live in peace once more.
Epilogue
The
novel, the last in the series, closes with a brief epilogue set 19 years later,
in which Harry and Ginny Weasley are a
married couple with three children: James Sirius, Albus Severus, and Lily Luna. Ron and Hermione Weasley are also
married and have two children, Rose and Hugo. The families meet at King's
Cross station, where a nervous Albus is departing for his first year
at Hogwarts. Harry's godson, Teddy Lupin, is found
kissing Bill and Fleur Weasley's daughter Victoire in a train carriage. Harry sees Draco Malfoy and his wife with their son,
Scorpius. Neville Longbottom
is now the Hogwarts Herbology
professor and remains friends with the two families. Harry comforts Albus, who
is worried he will be sorted into Slytherin, and tells his son that one of his
two namesakes, Severus Snape, was a Slytherin and the bravest man he had ever
met. He adds that the Sorting Hat takes one's
choice into account, like it did for Harry. The book ends with these final
words: "The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was
well."
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