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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Book Plot

With Albus Dumbledore dead and the ministry weakened, Lord Voldemort’s power continues to grow over both the muggle and wizarding world. Harry leaves Privet Drive for the final time as the charm that offers Harry protection in the Dursleys’ home breaks. He escapes to The Burrow, which has become the temporary headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix. While Harry and the Weasley family are busy preparing for Bill and Fleur’s upcoming wedding, they receive a visit from the Minister for Magic, Rufus Scrimgeour. The minister reads portions of Albus Dumbledore’s will to Harry, Ron and Hermione, which reveals the unusual items left for each of them. Ron receives a deluminator (a device for capturing and releasing light) and Hermione receives a children’s book called The Tales of Beedle the Bard. Dumbledore leaves Harry the golden snitch Harry caught at his first quidditch match, as well as the sword of Godric Gryffindor. Scrimgeour reluctantly gives Harry the snitch, but claims that the sword belongs to Hogwarts and was not Dumbledore’s to give away.

Bill and Fleur’s wedding reception is interrupted by news that the ministry has fallen into Voldemort’s hands. Harry, Ron and Hermione barely manage to disapparate as Death Eaters storm the wedding tent. After narrowly escaping two Death Eaters who manage to track them down on a muggle street, the trio take refuge at 12 Grimmauld Place. There, they learn that Sirius’ brother, Regulus Black, stole the real locket Horcrux and that it is now in the hands of Dolores Umbridge. The trio manages to sneak into the Ministry and steal the locket before retreating into the woods. Unable to destroy the Horcrux without the sword of Gryffindor, its presence brings out a dark side in Ron who leaves his friends in frustration. On Christmas Eve, Harry and Hermione visit Godric’s Hollow, the village where Voldemort murdered Harry’s parents, in the hopes of discovering another Horcrux. There, they are attacked by Voldemort’s snake, Nagini. Harry and Hermione narrowly escape before Voldemort arrives.

Dismayed at the fruitlessness of their attempts to uncover and destroy more Horcruxes, Harry and Hermione make camp in the Forest of Dean. In the middle of the night, a ghostly silver doe leads Harry to the sword of Gryffindor, which is hidden beneath the surface of a frozen pond. Harry jumps into the pond to retrieve the sword, but is nearly suffocated by the locket Horcrux. Ron saves Harry and destroys the Horcrux using the sword. Back in their tent, Ron apologizes to Harry and Hermione for leaving and explains how his deluminator helped him find his way back.

Curious about a mysterious symbol that keeps appearing in their horcrux search, the Trio visit Xenophilius Lovegood who explains that the symbol represents the legend of the Deathly Hallows: the Elder Wand, the Ressurection Stone, and a special invisibility cloak. When united, the objects are rumored to make one the master of death. Through his visions, Harry sees that Voldemort is hunting (and eventually uncovers), the Elder Wand, which previously belonged to Albus Dumbledore. After their visit to the Lovegoods’, Harry, Ron and Hermione are captured and taken to Malfoy manor. There, they are imprisoned with several others, including the wandmaker Ollivander and a goblin, Griphook. Dobby the house elf manages to help them escape to Bill and Fleur’s home, Shell Cottage, but is killed in the process. With Griphook’s help, the Trio breaks into Gringotts and retrieves another Horcrux, a cup once owned by Helga Hufflepuff. They are discovered, but escape on the back of a dragon.

Harry sees a vision and knows that another Horcrux is at Hogwarts -a diadem made by Rowena Ravenclaw. Dumbledore’s brother, Aberforth, helps the trio sneak into the school and Ron and Hermione venture to the Chamber of Secrets to destroy Hufflepuff’s cup with basilisk fangs while Harry searches for Ravenclaw’s diadem. The trio find the diadem in the Room of Requirement, but are cornered by Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle. Crabbe tries to kill the trio with Fiendfyre, but ends up destroying the Horcrux–and himself–in the blaze while the others escape. Students, teachers and even house elves defend Hogwarts as it is attacked by Death Eaters. Voldemort believes that Snape is preventing him from becoming master of the Elder Wand and kills the professor in the Shrieking Shack. In Snape’s last moments, he gives Harry a memory which Harry takes to the pensieve in the headmaster’s office. The memory reveals that Snape was in love with Lily Potter and had been secretly protecting Harry ever since Lily’s death. Harry also discovers that he became one of Voldemort’s horcruxes when the Dark Lord tried to kill him as a baby, and that he must sacrifice himself for Voldemort to be destroyed for good.

Harry walks through the Forbidden Forest to Voldemort’s encampment, prepared to die. Voldemort casts the killing curse and Harry falls to the ground. He wakes up in a place that resembles a clean, empty King’s Cross station. There, Albus Dumbledore greets him and explains that Harry is not yet entirely dead because he is linked to the living Voldemort through his blood. Instead, Voldemort has only destroyed the piece of his own soul that lived in Harry. Harry finds himself back in the Forbidden Forest and pretends to be dead while Voldemort brings his body back to Hogwarts to announce victory. Neville refuses to accept Voldemort’s triumph and kills Nagini, the last remaining Horcrux, with the sword of Gryffindor. Harry springs from the ground and tells Voldemort that it is he who is the master of the Elder Wand, because he disarmed Draco (who had previously disarmed Dumbledore, at Malfoy Manor). Voldemort casts a killing curse as Harry disarms him. Since Harry is the true master of the wand, the killing curse backfires leaving Voldemort dead once and for all.

Seventeen years later, Harry and his wife Ginny bring their children to King’s Cross Station to board the Hogwarts Express. Their younger son, Albus Severus, expresses concern that he might be sorted into Slytherin. Harry assures him that there is no shame to being in Slytherin. Hermione and Ron’s two children, Rose and Hugo, also board the train with their cousins. The epilogue closes with the assurance that, for Harry, “all was well.”

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