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Lindsey Phillips
 * Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows**
 * By JK Rolling**

**Bibliographic Data**

Original Publication Date: July 21st 2007 Publisher: Scholastic Imprint: Scholastic Press ISBN-10: 0545139708 ISBN-13: 978-0545139700 Hardcover Price: $19.76 Paperback Price: $9.06 Kindle: $9.99 Number of Pages: 759 Best for ages: 9 & up Type of book: Fiction/Fantasy


 * Book Summary:**

Although the return to Harry Potter's Aunt and Uncles home for the summer holiday is very enjoyable, Harry is now distraught as he must cope with the death of his headmaster and friend, Albus Dumbledore. The attempt to move Harry safely from his residence with his Aunt and Uncle does not come without a cost. Although he makes it out alive, Hedwig (his owl), and Mad Eye Moody are killed by Death Eaters and his friend George has his ear blown off. On the plus side, Harry has finally come of age, which in the Magical world means being allowed to use magic outside of school. Not long after Harry, his friends and his guardians are safely at the Burrow they are put to work getting the house ready for Bill and Fleur's wedding. One evening the minister of magic come to call. It is not a pleasant encounter but Harry, Ron and Hermione are each given something left to them from Dumbleore's will. However, while things where seemingly normal at the Burrow, in the magical world Voldemort was off fulfilling plans which Harry is forced to see snip-its of through painful trips into Voldemort's mind. Voldemort and his followers overtake the ministry of magic and when they do the extra defenses on the Burrow are broken and death Eaters swoop in as unwelcome party crashes. Thanks to Hermione, Harry and Ron are able to get away, already fully stocked to be on the run in search of Voldemort’s Horcruxes, knowing that the only way to finish Lord Voldemort was by finding and destroying the five remaining Horcruxes. The three go to Grimmauld Place (Sirius's old house) and learn from the old house elf Kreacher what had happened to the necklace with the Horcruxe with the S lytherin crest, the one that Dumbledore had died trying to get hold of. They conclude that it is in the possession of one of their least favorite people in the world, D olores Umbridge. In a life risking attempt to raid the ministry of magic they secure the Horcruxe but give away their hiding place at Grimmauld Place and can not return. For months they roam the woods without many clues as to where to go or what to do next. Then through a stroke of luck they deduce that one way to destroy a Horcruxe is by using the Sword of G ryffindor. Ron however finds this new piece of information very unhelpful being that they have just as little hope of finding the sword than the other Horcruxes. The stress, hunger and negative thoughts that the Horcruxe invokes becomes too much for Ron who in a fit of rage leaves Harry and Hermione to look for the Horcruxes themselves. Harry and Hermione take a trip to the village Harry was born, G odric's Hollow, in the hopes of finding any clues left for them there. Instead of finding the sword or any clues they are faced with another deadly situation and are almost caught by Voldemort. Harry then witnesses what seems to be miracles, he follows a silver patronus too a frozen pool of water in the woods. Glinting at the bottom of the pool is the sword of Gryffindor. Harry dives in to get the sword but is almost strangled by the Horcruxe around his neck, which jumped to life in such close proximity to the object that could destroy it. Harry is almost killed when he is pulled from the water by Ron. Ron had been trying to find his way back to Harry sense he had left. They destroy the Horcruxe and return to the tent where Hermione is shocked and angry to see Ron. In the hopes of following the clues left to them by Dumbledore the three set out to talk to Xenophillus Lovegood who tells them the tail of the Deathly Hollows. Harry then finally understands that the Deathly Hollows are what Voldemort had been looking for all along. The elder wand, the resurrection stone, and the clock of invisibility. The person to possess all three of these would be said to be the master of death. Not long after learning this new information they were captured and brought to the Malfoy Manor. Hermione is tortured while Harry and Ron are held in the Dungeon. With the help of Dobby they are all able to escape relatively unharmed and with new ideas as to where the remaining Horcruxes are Dobby on the other hand does not survive. The little elf gave his life to save Harry and his friends. One of them being in Bellatrix Lestrange vault in Gringotts bank. Through a deadly series of events, the three break into the bank, steal the Horcruxe (which is the cup of Hufflepuff) and make it out with only server burns while riding on a dragon. After seeing into Voldemort's mind Harry finally knows for sure that the last unknown Horcruxe is probably Ravenclaw diadem and it is hidden inside Hogwarts. A war begins as the students and teacher of Hogwarts put up a fight against Voldemort and his death eaters. With the cup and the diadem destroyed Harry thinks the last Horcruxe left is the snake. Harry however witnesses the murder of Professor Snape and learns that Snape on Dumbledore's side from the moment Voldemort sought to kill Harry's mother. Harry learned that Snape had been in love with Lilly scene childhood. From Snape's memories Harry also learns that Voldemort made one more Horcruxe than he had indented to. When he tried to kill Harry as a baby, part of himself lodged into Harry. Harry was an eighth Horcruxe. Knowing that he had to die in order for Voldemort to be defeated he gave Neville Longbottom the chore of killing Voldenmort's snake. Harry walked into what he thought to be sure death. He gave his life to save his friends. However once again Voldemort failed to kill him. His curse sent Harry to a dream like Kings Cross Station where he had the choice to move on into life after death or go back. Of course he chose to go back and when he did he killed Lord Voldemort once and for all.

Horcruxe= magical piece of a Voldemort's soul. He split his soul into seven pieces in an attempt to make himself immortal.


 * Review**

The Harry Potter Series are great pieces of magical fiction. It is where wardrobes can transport, cars can fly, owls deliver letters and a single wand can rip countless families apart. In this world there is also, friendship, bravery, wit, and mystery. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows in particular is very well done because it ties together questions or pieces of information from the previous six books. In doing so readers are left to wonder how in the world Rowling managed to create such a master piece.

**Author Bio**

Joanne Kathleen Rowling was born 1965 and raised in England where she went to Wyedean Comprehensive. . Her parents names are Anne Volant and Peter Rowling. She has only one sibling, a sister named Di. She adopted the middle name Kathleen after the death of her favorite grandparent, her grandmother Kathleen. She got married in October 1992 and gave birth to a girl in 1993. When her marriage failed, she and her daughter returned to the UK to live in Edinburgh. During  a delayed King’s Cross train journey from Manchester to London she started the idea for the Harry Potter series. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">She got the surname “Potter” from a boy she knew from her childhood neighborhood.Very soon after beginning what was then called “The Philosopher’s Stone,” her mother died at the age of 45. This was shown in her novels and made Harry’s feelings about his dead parents that much stronger. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When her book first book was ready to be published she decided to go by the name JK Rowling rather than Joanne Rolling because her publisher thought the female name would not appeal to the target audience of young boys. J.K. Rowling is the had won numerous awards and honorary degrees including the Prince of Asturias Award for Concord, France’s Légion d’Honneur, and the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award, and she has been a Commencement Speaker at Harvard University USA. Apart from being an author she has a heart for teaching and aims to transform the lives of disadvantaged children. She is the founder of Lumos, which is a charity working to do just that, transform the lives of deprived kids. JK Rolling now lives with her Husband and three children in Edinburgh. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone was more successful than she could have ever imagined. After finishing the seven book series she has gone on to write smaller books such as The Tales of Beatle and Bard which are talked about in the series. The Harry potter books have been translated into almost 70 languages.


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Literary Element Analysis: Character Development **

Harry Potter is, even from the very first book, a hero. He is the heroic main character of the novel. Although he has flaws and does not always do or say the right things, his strong and honorable personality make him and admirable protagonist. Using a combination of magical skill, brain, and help from friends Harry is able to fight against Lord Voldemort once again. Throughout the book Harry is on a quest to find and destroy pieces of Voldemort soul. This way, when he did come him, there was a chance he could be killed once and for all. Harry's long term goal is murder. So why is he considered a hero? The answer is simple, the only way for him to survive is if he kills Voldemort, therefore it is self defense in a way. However Harry proves that his life is not all he is fighting for. He is fighting to save his friends and all the other innocent people Voldemort planned to kill. From past books we saw that Harry was never backed down from a fight with Lord Voldemort. He risked his life many times previously in order to save his friends. However at the end of the seventh book, Harry one again goes to face Lord Voldemort, however this time he is not risking his life for his friends, this time he is giving his life for them. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #181818; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">“Finally, the truth. Lying with his face pressed into the dusty carpet of the office where he had once thought he was learning the secrets of victory, Harry understood at last that he was not supposed to survive” (691). After seeing the full plan Dumbledore had laid out, Harry does not question it. He sees that for the plan to work he must die. Not only does he have to die, he must let Voldemort be the one to kill him, meaning he must be brave enough to not fight. The book says, "terror washed over him as he lay on the floor witha that funeral drum pounding inside him. Would it hurt to die? All those times he had thought that it was about to happen and escaped, he had never really thought of the thing itself:His will to live had always been so much stronger than his fear of death. Yet it did not occur to him now to try and escape, to outrun Voldemort" (692). Harry goes through a major change after he sees the full plan. For the first time he leaves survival mode. For the first time he begins to accept death. He had always been willing to give his life for his friends, but he had never been faced with the direct decision, them or me. No both. The fact that he does not even conciser running an option shows how heroic and selfless this character is. The thing about Harry is that he is not just 100% brave. The text says, "He could not longer control his own trembling. It was not, after all, so easy to die" (697). Harry made the choice to die for his friends but that does not mean it made him fearless. He was very afraid. But his fear is what made him even more brave. Being afraid but also going through with it. Along with bravery and heroism Harry is a leader. And here, a final quote from Dumbledore to describe Harry's personality,“It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well" (718).


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