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Template:Current fiction Template:HPBooks Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is the seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series of novels by J. K. Rowling. It was released on July 21, 2007 and chronicles the events directly following Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, leading to the long-awaited final struggle between Harry Potter and his allies, and the ever-more-powerful and influential Voldemort and his allies, the Death Eaters.

Rowling finished the book in February 2007. In a statement on her website, she compared her mixed feelings of "mourning" and "incredible sense of achievement" to those expressed by Charles Dickens in the preface of the 1850 edition of David Copperfield, "a two-years' imaginative task." "To which," she added, "I can only sigh, try seventeen years, Charles..."

She continued "I've never felt such a mixture of extreme emotions in my life, never dreamed I could feel simultaneously heartbroken and euphoric." Recognising that her readers might experience similar feelings, she consoled them with the thought that "there will be plenty to continue arguing and speculating about, even after Deathly Hallows comes out." She ended her message, "'Deathly Hallows' is my favourite, and that is the most wonderful way to finish the series."[1]

Synopsis

Deathly Hallows carries a dedication to Neil, Jessica, David, Kenzie, Di, Anne, and the reader, and two epigraphs: Aeschylus's The Libation Bearers and William Penn's More Fruits of Solitude, on the themes of death and friendship. Deathly Hallows is also the first book in the Harry Potter series to have an epigraph.

Leaving the Dursleys

As Harry Potter's protection at the Dursleys' home expires when he turns 17, he must be moved to a new location. After the Dursleys are escorted to safety, Order of the Phoenix members arrive to sneak Harry from the house. Despite an attempted decoy using Harry impostors, the real Harry is identified and attacked by Voldemort and his Death Eaters. After a narrow escape, Harry and his companions arrive at The Burrow, where they discover that Mad-Eye Moody has been killed by Voldemort.

A few days later, the Minister for Magic, Rufus Scrimgeour, arrives to give Harry, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger bequests from Albus Dumbledore's will: Ron is given Dumbledore's Deluminator, with the power to capture lights; Hermione receives a book of children's stories written in Ancient Runes; Harry inherits Godric Gryffindor's sword and the Snitch he caught in his first ever Quidditch match. The Ministry withholds the sword, claiming it was not actually Dumbledore's. After the departure of Scrimgeour from the scene, Harry finds a hidden inscription on the Snitch: "I open at the close."

Search for the Horcruxes

During Bill and Fleur's wedding reception, Kingsley Shacklebolt's Patronus arrives, warning that Voldemort has killed Rufus Scrimgeour, taken over the Ministry and sent Death Eaters to the wedding. Harry, Ron and Hermione escape the attack and take refuge at the deserted Black estate, where they discover that Regulus Arcturus Black is the "R.A.B." who removed the locket Horcrux from the lake.Template:HP6 Discovering that Dolores Umbridge now possesses it, they infiltrate the Ministry of Magic using Polyjuice Potion and recover the Horcrux.

After several months on the run, the trio overhears a conversation revealing that the sword confiscated by the Ministry was a fake; the location of Gryffindor's real sword is unknown. Harry questions the portrait of Phineas Nigellus and learns that Dumbledore destroyed a Horcrux with the real sword. Unable to destroy the locket, Harry wants to find the real sword, but Ron becomes discouraged and leaves. Harry and Hermione go to Godric's Hollow, hoping that Dumbledore hid it there. However, it is a trap: Harry and Hermione narrowly escape Voldemort and his snake Nagini, and Hermione accidentally breaks Harry's wand as they flee.

One night, a doe-shaped Patronus appears near their camp and leads Harry to Gryffindor's real sword, hidden in an icy pond. Harry dives after the sword, but the locket Horcrux around his neck begins strangling him. Ron, who suddenly returns, rescues Harry and retrieves the sword; he destroys the Horcrux with it. The trio set off to find Xenophilius Lovegood, Luna Lovegood's father, and ask him about Grindelwald's mark, a symbol in the book Dumbledore bequeathed to Hermione and also on a pendant Mr. Lovegood wore at the wedding.

The Deathly Hallows

The trio reach the Lovegoods' house and learn that the symbol represents the Deathly Hallows, three legendary objects that conquer death: the Elder Wand, Resurrection Stone, and Invisibility Cloak. However, they are forced to flee when Xenophilius betrays them to the Ministry in the hope that they will release his captured daughter. Harry now believes his Invisibility Cloak to be a Deathly Hallow.

At their camp, "snatchers" capture the trio, and they are imprisoned at Malfoy Manor, the new Death Eater headquarters. After finding the sword among the trio's possessions, Bellatrix Lestrange fears they have broken into her vault at Gringotts Bank. Dobby appears to free the prisoners, but they are discovered by Peter Pettigrew. He repays his life debt to Harry, but is murdered by his own silver hand. In the escape, Harry takes the wands of Bellatrix and Draco Malfoy. They apparate to Bill and Fleur's home, but Dobby has been killed by Bellatrix. Guessing that Bellatrix's vault contains a Horcrux, the trio break into Gringotts, retrieve a Horcrux in the form of Helga Hufflepuff's Cup, and escape riding a dragon. Voldemort finally realises that his Horcruxes are being destroyed, and his telepathic link with Harry accidentally reveals that another Horcrux is hidden at Hogwarts.

The Battle of Hogwarts

Dumbledore's brother, Aberforth, helps the trio to enter Hogwarts. They alert the staff to Voldemort's impending arrival. Underage students are evacuated as Order of the Phoenix members arrive. As the forces loyal to Voldemort attack Hogwarts, at least fifty wizards die in the ensuing battle; Harry learns that Ravenclaw's Diadem is a Horcrux and realises he has seen it in the Room of Requirement. Meanwhile, Ron and Hermione enter the Chamber of Secrets to retrieve basilisk fangs, with which Hermione destroys Hufflepuff's Cup. In the Room of Requirement, the three are confronted by Draco, Crabbe, and Goyle. Crabbe mishandles a powerful spell, killing himself and inadvertently destroying the Diadem.

Harry has another vision and leads his friends to the Shrieking Shack where Voldemort orders Nagini to kill Severus Snape. Voldemort believes that Snape became the Elder Wand's master when Snape killed its former owner, Dumbledore, and that with Snape's death, the wand's allegiance will now be his. As Snape dies, he gives Harry his memories, who uses the Pensieve to discover that Snape had always been loyal to Dumbledore, motivated by his lifelong love of Lily Evans, Harry's mother. Dumbledore, dying after being cursed by Marvolo Gaunt's ring, had instructed Snape to kill him, if necessary, to spare Draco from completing the task. Snape had always protected Harry, and it was he who sent the doe Patronus to lead Harry to Gryffindor's sword. Harry also discovers that he himself is a Horcrux, and that Voldemort cannot be killed while Harry remains alive.

Resigned to his fate, Harry goes alone to the Forbidden Forest where Voldemort awaits. Harry opens the snitch he received from Dumbledore and finds the Resurrection Stone within. He uses it to summon the spirits of James and Lily Potter, Sirius Black, and Remus Lupin (recently killed in battle along with his wife, Tonks) who comfort him. Prepared for death, he allows Voldemort to strike him with the Avada Kedavra curse. However, Harry awakens in what appears to be King's Cross railway station where Albus Dumbledore explains that Harry cannot die while the blood carrying Lily's protection resides in Voldemort's body. Furthermore, the Horcrux within Harry has been destroyed by the Killing Curse.

Back in the forest, Harry revives. Feigning death, he is carried to Hogwarts as a trophy. As reinforcements charge in, Harry covers himself with the Invisibility Cloak while Neville pulls Godric Gryffindor's sword from the Sorting Hat and beheads Nagini, destroying the final Horcrux. Harry confronts Voldemort. He realises that when Draco Malfoy disarmed Dumbledore, he unknowingly became the Elder Wand's master. When Harry later took Draco's own wand, the Elder Wand's allegiance passed to him. Voldemort casts Avada Kedavra, but the Elder Wand protects its master and the spell rebounds, killing Voldemort.

Shortly after, Harry visits Dumbledore's portrait. He tells the Headmaster that he will keep the Invisibility Cloak, but leave the Resurrection Stone in the Forbidden Forest and return the Elder Wand to Dumbledore's tomb. As long as Harry remains undefeated, the Elder Wand's power will die with him.

Epilogue

In the story's epilogue, set nineteen years later, Harry and Ginny have three children, James, Albus Severus, and Lily. Ron and Hermione have two children named Rose and Hugo. Harry tells Albus Severus, who does not want to be sorted into Slytherin, that Severus Snape, his namesake, was probably the bravest man Harry ever met. Neville is now the Hogwarts Herbology professor and is close friends with Harry. The book ends with the line: "The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well..."

Deaths

Main article: List of deaths in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

This book has the largest number of named casualties of any book in the series. Challenged on this before the book's release, J.K. Rowling had commented "It's not a bloodbath, but it's more than two."[2] In fact, over a dozen characters from earlier books are killed off over the course of the story. In a statement from Harry's point-of-view, it is said that at least 54 wizards died opposing Voldemort in the Battle of Hogwarts.

Pre-release history

Spoiler embargo

Rowling made a public request that anyone with advance information about the content of the last book should keep it to themselves, in order to avoid spoiling the experience for other readers.[3] To this end, Bloomsbury invested £10m in an attempt to keep the book's contents secure until the July 21 release date.[4] However, there was speculation that some shops would break the embargo and distribute copies of the book early, as the penalty imposed for previous installments — that the distributor would not be supplied with any further copies of the series — would no longer be a deterrent.[5]

Online leaks

In the week prior to its release, a number of texts purporting to be genuine leaks appeared in a number of forms. On July 16, a set of photographs representing all 759 pages of the U.S. edition was leaked to the Internet and was fully transcribed prior to the official release date.[6][7][8][9] The photographs later appeared on websites and peer-to-peer networks, leading Scholastic to seek a subpoena in order to identify one source.[10] Scholastic described the content of the texts as "convincing" but refused to comment on their authenticity, noting only that several texts had conflicting content, with a similar reaction from the publishers.[10] This represents the most serious security breach in the Harry Potter series' history.[11] Rowling and her lawyer admitted that there were genuine online leaks, but they did not specify which ones they were or if the whole book was available. She requested on her site that fans ignore the online leaks and that readers do not spoil the plot for those waiting on the release on Friday night.[12] Reviews published in both The Baltimore Sun and The New York Times on July 18, 2007 corroborated many of the plot elements from this leak, and about one day prior to release, The New York Times subsequently confirmed that the main circulating leak was real.

Early delivery

One reader in Maryland received a copy of the book in the mail from DeepDiscount.com four days before it was launched, which evoked incredulous responses on the part of both Scholastic and DeepDiscount. Scholastic initially reported that they were satisfied it had been a "human error" and would not discuss whether they would be penalised.[13] However, later the following day, Scholastic announced that approximately 1 ten-thousandth (0.01%) of the U.S. supply had been shipped early, constituting around 1200 copies,[14] and that it would be launching legal action against DeepDiscount.com and its distributor, Levy Home Entertainment.[15] Scholastic has filed for damages in Chicago's Circuit Court of Cook County, claiming[16] that DeepDiscount engaged in a “complete and flagrant violation of the agreements that they knew were part of the carefully constructed release of this eagerly awaited book.”

Some of the early release books soon appeared on eBay, in one case being sold to Publishers Weekly for $250 from an initial price of $18.[17]

Price wars

In the UK, supermarket chain Asda claimed that the retail price of the book (UK£17.99: equivalent to US$37 at the time of release) was "holding children to ransom". The publisher responded by threatening to withdraw Asda's supply of the book, claiming a previously unpaid debt.[18] Asda issued an apology and settled the debt, and its supply of the book was restored.[19]

Asda, plus several other UK supermarkets, had already taken pre-orders for the book at a heavily discounted price. Asda then sparked a further price war two days before the book's launch by announcing they would sell it for just UK£5.00 a copy (equivalent to US$10.28 at the time of release). Tesco also lowered its price to UK£5.00, but only if customers spent another UK£50.00 in store (Asda did not impose this restriction). Morrisons lowered its price to UK£4.99; the cheapest retail price in the UK, although cash & carry chain Costco offered the book for UK£4.98.

At these prices the book is a loss leader, with the supermarkets taking a loss of just over UK£3.00 on every copy sold, but attracting large numbers of customers to their stores. This caused uproar from traditional UK booksellers who argued they had no hope of competing in those conditions [20]. Independent shops protested loudest, but even Waterstone’s, the UK's largest dedicated chain bookstore, could not compete with the supermarket price. Some small bookstores hit back by buying their stock from the supermarkets rather than their wholesalers. Asda tried to counter this by imposing a limit of two copies per customer to prevent bulk-buying. Philip Wicks, a spokesman for the UK Booksellers Association, said: 'It is a war we can't even participate in. We think it's a crying shame that the supermarkets have decided to treat it as a loss-leader, like a can of baked beans." Michael Norris, an analyst at Simba Information, said: "You are not only lowering the price of the book. At this point, you are lowering the value of reading."

In Malaysia, a similar price war brought about controversy regarding sales of the book.[21] Four of the biggest bookstore chains in Malaysia, MPH Bookstores, Popular Bookstores, Times and Harris, decided to pull Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows off their shelves as a protest against Tesco and Carrefour hypermarkets. The retail price of the book in Malaysia is MYR 109.90 (about GBP 16.05), while the hypermarkets Tesco and Carrefour sell the book at MYR 69.90 (about GBP 10). The move by the bookstores was seen as an attempt to pressure the distributor Penguin Books to remove the books from the hypermarkets.[21]

In the US, the large discount chain stores such as Walmart were selling the book for $17 to $18.

Madeleine McCann appeal

There was a plan to include with each copy of Deathly Hallows a bookmark bearing the face of Madeleine McCann, a British toddler who went missing in Portugal in May 2007 and whose case has been highly publicised in the months since. The plan was shelved because the publishers decided it would not be responsible to expose younger readers to the story of Madeleine's disappearance.[22]

However, J. K. Rowling arranged with her publishers for a poster bearing Madeleine's face to be made available to book sellers at the launch of Deathly Hallows and said that she hoped that the posters would be displayed prominently in shops all over the world.[23]

Sales

On 21 July 2007, all editions but the American and Canadian were released at a minute past midnight (00:01) BST; the American and Canadian editions were released at a minute past midnight (00:01), local time.[24][25] It was released globally in 93 countries.[26] The book reached the top spot on both the Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble best-seller lists just a few hours after the date of publication was announced on 1 February 2007.[27] In July 2007 the U.K. newspaper the Daily Telegraph reported that it had been bought by more than 10% of the British population in the 5 days since its release.[28]

Retailers such as Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and Borders reported that more orders had been placed for this book than for any other in history,[29] with Amazon.com stating that advance orders of the book reached 2.2 million worldwide,[30] breaking the record set by the sixth book of 1.5 million.[31] Scholastic announced an unprecedented initial print run of 12 million copies.[32]

On the book's first day of sales, it sold 11 million copies in the UK and U.S., breaking the record of 9 million held by the sixth book.[33] In the U.S., 8.3 million hardcovers were sold during the first 24 hours, breaking the record of 6.9 million set by the sixth book.[34] Barnes & Noble reported all-time record sales of 1.8 million copies in the first two days, including 560,000 in the first hour - a rate of more than 150 copies per second. The audiobook broke records as well, with 225,000 copies sold in the first two days, according to Random House Audio's Listening Library.[35] On 23 July 2007, the Associated Press reported that worldwide sales were at 72.1 million copies, though this is still unconfirmed.[36]

During the run-up to the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Bloomsbury's stock lost more than £151m in value. Investors were reacting to the end of the publisher's key product.[37] In the last financial year in which no Harry Potter book was released, Bloomsbury's profits dropped by 75%.

Critical reception

Waiting for Harry Potter at midnight in Borders — Sunnyvale, California

The reviewer in the Los Angeles Times gives the book an enthusiatically positive review.[38] On July 21, 2007, reviewer Mary McNamara wrote that the series ends with a "grand and glorious bang." McNamara notes that, in contrast to the religious-themed novels of C.S. Lewis, Rowling is sharing a "populist message: The real quest in life is ... personal tranformation." McNamara sets out high praise for Rowling: "what Rowling has achieved ... [is] astonishing" and "the language and tone of the books have grown in sophistication and lyricism." The review concludes that Deathly Hallows is "an articulate, emotionally wrenching conclusion - that is a truly epic quest."

The review in the Times of London is equally positive, if more measured, in its praise.[39] Reviewer Alice Fordham writes "Rowling’s genius is not just her total realisation of a fantasy world, but the quieter skill of creating characters that bounce off the page, real and flawed and brave and lovable." Fordham concludes, "We have been a long way together, and neither [Rowling] nor Harry let us down in the end."

In a thoughtful review in the Chicago Tribune,[40] reviewer Julia Keller reflects that "The 10-year arc of the Potter series encompasses a momentous time in world history," and suggests that the book addresses "entertaining profound questions: Why is the world unjust? Why do our friends disappoint us? Why must the good die and the evil sometimes prosper?" For this reviewer, perhaps the highlight of Deathly Hallow is the post-death conversation between Harry and Dumbledore, which Keller calls "so majestic in the sweep of its wisdom, so achingly sad but acutely true, that it nearly levitates from prose into poetry."

Pre-release reviews and controversy

Arthur Levine, U.S. editor of the Harry Potter series, denied distributing any copies of Deathly Hallows in advance for press review.[41]

On July 18, The Baltimore Sun published online the first review of the book. Mary Carole McCauley's review praised the entire Harry Potter series as "a classic bildungsroman, or coming-of-age tale." She noted that "[b]ook seven... lacks much of the charm and humor that distinguished the earlier novels. Even the writing is more prosaic", but then observed that given the book's darker subject matter, "[h]ow could it be otherwise"? An editor's note appended to the review said that the paper acquired a hardcopy of the book from "a relative of a Sun reporter", and that, "The Sun did not pay for the book."[42]

Several hours later on July 18, The New York Times also posted a positive review of the book. Critic Michiko Kakutani, who purchased the book from a retail outlet in New York City, wrote "The world of Harry Potter is a place where the mundane and the marvelous, the ordinary and the surreal coexist...and people's lives are defined by love and loss and hope — the same way they are in our own mortal world."[43]

Kakutani's review provoked negative response from some Harry Potter fans who felt the review revealed details of the book's plot. At least one fan website, The Leaky Cauldron, called for a letter-writing campaign to The New York Times.[44]

Translations

Following a pre-release question from the Swedish publisher about the difficulty of translating Deathly Hallows without having read the book, Rowling revealed an alternative title from which non-English editions could be translated: Harry Potter and the Relics of Death.[45]

Translation of the book is underway in a range of languages, such as French (as Harry Potter et les reliques de la mort with an expected release date of October 26, 2007[46]) and German (Harry Potter und die Heiligtümer des Todes, October 27, 2007[47]).

Editions

Bloomsbury (United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, etc.)
  • ISBN 0747591059 Hardcover
  • ISBN 0747591075 Hardcover (special edition)
Raincoast (Canada, etc.)
  • ISBN 1551929767 Hardcover
  • ISBN 1551929783 Hardcover (adult edition)
Scholastic (United States, etc.)
  • ISBN 0545010225 Hardcover
  • ISBN 0545029376 Deluxe Hardcover

See also

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