Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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Chapters

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Chapter 1: The Dark Lord Ascending
Chapter 2: In Memoriam
Chapter 3: The Dursleys Departing
Chapter 4: The Seven Potters
Chapter 5: Fallen Warrior
Chapter 6: The Ghoul in Pyjamas
Chapter 7: The Will of Albus Dumbledore
Chapter 8: The Wedding
Chapter 9: A Place to Hide
Chapter 10: Kreacher's Tale
Chapter 11: The Bribe
Chapter 12: Magic is Might
Chapter 13: The Muggle-Born Registration Commission
Chapter 14: The Thief
Chapter 15: The Goblin's Revenge
Chapter 16: Godric's Hollow
Chapter 17: Bathilda's Secret
Chapter 18: The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore
Chapter 19: The Silver Doe
Chapter 20: Xenophilius Lovegood
Chapter 21: The Tale of the Three Brothers
Chapter 22: The Deathly Hallows
Chapter 23: Malfoy Manor
Chapter 24: The Wandmaker
Chapter 25: Shell Cottage
Chapter 26: Gringotts
Chapter 27: The Final Hiding Place
Chapter 28: The Missing Mirror
Chapter 29: The Lost Diadem
Chapter 30: The Sacking of Severus Snape
Chapter 31: The Battle of Hogwarts
Chapter 32: The Elder Wand
Chapter 33: The Prince's Tale
Chapter 34: The Forest Again
Chapter 35: King's Cross
Chapter 36: The Flaw in the Plan
Epilogue: Nineteen Years Later

Overview

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Once again we join Harry Potter as he enters what would be his seventh year at Hogwarts. The book is written from the point-of-view of the now 17-year-old Harry as he prepares to complete the mission set for him by Dumbledore at the end of the previous year. Arguably the darkest book in the series, this volume shows Lord Voldemort tightening his grip on the Wizarding world as he remolds it into his own pure-blood design.Throughout the Harry Potter movies, the number seven is constantly utilized as a magical number. This is how many Horcruxes Lord Voldemort creates, it's the number on Potter's Quidditch shirt when he's captain, and is the number of locks on Mad-Eye's trunk, for example.

While the series progressively covers seven years in Harry Potter's life, the first five volumes are largely self-contained stories. Unlike them, this book is written more as the second half to a two-part novel, and is tightly tied to the previous book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

Note: While this book is among the longer ones in the series, at 607 pages (Bloomsbury / Raincoast edition), it is also set in somewhat larger type. If it were the same size type as Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, it would be 520 pages (approximately) to 223 for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

Book Highlights

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Extended Analysis

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