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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 July 21, 2007, ending the series that began in 1997 with the publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. This book chronicles the events directly following Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2005), and leads to the long-awaited final confrontation between Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort.

Deathly Hallows is published in the UK by Bloomsbury Publishing, in the USA by Scholastic Press, in Canada by Raincoast Books and in Australia and New Zealand by Allen & Unwin. Released globally in ninety-three countries, Deathly Hallows broke sales records as the fastest-selling book ever, selling more than 11 million copies in the first twenty-four hours following its release. The previous record, nine million in its first day, had been held by Half-Blood Prince.[1]

Epigraph

All the books in the Harry Potter series have dedications, but Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is the only one to include an epigraph. It contains two quotes relating to death and friendship. The first quotation is an English translation from Ancient Greek of a passage from The Libation Bearers, by the 5th century BC playwright Aeschylus.[2] The second quotation is from More Fruits of Solitude (1682) by William Penn, the Quaker author and founder of the American Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.[3] On the page, the unusual layout of the epigraph resembles the shape of Harry's scar.

Plot

  1. Voldemort kills Burbage on pg. 12
  2. Hedwig gets fursecuted by an unnamed Death Eater on pg. 56
  3. George Weasley loses an ear
  4. Mad-Eye is shot in the face with a killing curse and falls off his broom, confirmed dead on pg. 78
  5. Ron cockblocks Harry on page 99.
  6. Scrimgeour is confirmed dead on pg. 159
  7. Wormtail becomes an hero when his own silver hand chokes him to death on pg. 471
  8. Ted Tonks (father of Nymphadora Tonks) dies
  9. Dobby gets shanked on pg. 476
  10. Snape gets bitten on the neck by Nagini, dies on pg. 658. Turns out he was good all along.
  11. Fred Weasley gets blown up, dies on pg. 637 (Percy cries like a bitch)
  12. Harry is pwned by Voldemort on pg. 704
  13. Hangs out with Dumbledore, comes back to life on pg. 724
  14. Voldemort's own spell backfires on him (WHAT A FUCKING NUB), unintentionally making him an hero on pg. 744
  15. Tonks, Lupin, and Colin Creevy have their deaths confirmed on pg. 745
  16. The Sword of Griffindor can destroy Horcruxes.
  17. Ron Destroys the Locket.
  18. Hufflepuff's cup was in Gringotts.
  19. Ravenclaw's Crown was in the Room of Requirement.
  20. HARRY WAS THE LAST HORCRUX OMFG!!!
  21. Neville cuts off Nagini's head.
  22. Tonks and Lupin have a son.
  23. Bill and Fleur have a daughter.
  24. Ron has married Hermione, their two children are named Rose and Hugo.
  25. Harry has married Ginny, their three children are named Lily, James, and Albus Severus.
  26. Draco Malfoy has a son named Scorpius
  27. The final lines are, "The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well."

Rowling's commentary and supplement

In an interview,[4] online chat,[5][6][7] the Wizard of the Month section of her website, and during her 2007 U.S. Open Book Tour, Rowling revealed additional character information that she chose not to include in the book. She stated that:

  • Harry becomes an Auror for the Ministry of Magic, and is later appointed head of the department. He keeps Sirius's motorcycle, which Arthur Weasley repaired for him, but he can no longer speak Parseltongue after the destruction of Voldemort's soul fragment within him.
  • Ginny Weasley plays for the Holyhead Harpies Quidditch team for a time, leaves to establish a family with Harry and later becomes the lead Quidditch correspondent for the Daily Prophet.
  • Ron Weasley works at George's store for a time, Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes, then joins Harry as an Auror.
  • Hermione finds her parents in Australia and removes the memory modification charm she had put on them for safety. She initially works for the Ministry of Magic in the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, greatly improving life for house elves and their ilk. She later moves to the Department of Magical Law Enforcement and assists in eradicating oppressive, pro-pureblood laws. She was also the only member of the trio to go back and complete her seventh year at Hogwarts.
  • Dumbledore's relationship with Gellert Grindelwald extended beyond mere friendship; indeed, Rowling has revealed that "Dumbledore is gay, actually",[8] and harboured romantic feelings for Grindelwald.[9]
  • After his death, Voldemort is forced to exist in the stunted form Harry witnessed in the King's Cross limbo; his crimes were too severe for him to become a ghost.

Rowling also explained the fates of several secondary characters:

  • George Weasley continues his successful joke shop. George married fellow Quidditch player Angelina Johnson and has two children: a son named Fred, in memory of his late twin brother, and a daughter, Roxanne.
  • Luna Lovegood searches the world for odd and unique creatures. She eventually marries Rolf, a grandson of the famed naturalist Newt Scamander.[7] , writer of Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them. They have twins called Lorcan and Lysander. Her father's publication, The Quibbler, has returned to its usual condition of "advanced lunacy" and is appreciated for its unintentional humour.
  • Draco Malfoy married Astoria Greengrass and had a son named Scorpius.
  • Percy Weasley married a woman named Audrey and had two daughters, named Molly and Lucy.
  • Firenze is welcomed back into his herd, who finally acknowledge the virtue of his pro-human leanings.
  • Dolores Umbridge is arrested, interrogated, and imprisoned for crimes against Muggle-borns. The amount of time she serves in prison is unknown.
  • Cho Chang went on to marry a Muggle.[10]
  • Neville Longbottom becomes professor of Herbology at Hogwarts and marries Hannah Abbott.[11]
  • Besides Victoire Weasley, Bill and Fleur Weasley have a younger son and a younger daughter, named Dominique and Louis.
  • On her website, Rowling posted a Weasley family tree, showing that Harry's children's full names are James Sirius Potter, Albus Severus Potter, and Lily Luna Potter.

There have been transformations in the wider wizarding world:

  • Kingsley Shacklebolt is the permanent Minister of Magic, with Percy Weasley working under him as a high official. Among the reforms introduced by Shacklebolt, Azkaban no longer uses Dementors. Consequently, the world is now a "much sunnier place". Harry, Ron, and Hermione have also been instrumental in reforming the Ministry.[5]
  • At Hogwarts, Slytherin House has become more diluted and is no longer the pure-blood bastion it once was, although its dark reputation lingers.[5]
  • Voldemort's jinx on the Defense Against the Dark Arts position is broken with his death. There is now a permanent Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. Harry comes to the Defense Against the Dark Arts class to lecture several times a year.[4]
  • A portrait of Snape, who briefly served as Hogwarts Headmaster, does not appear in the headmaster's office as he abandoned his post. Harry ensures the addition of Snape's portrait, and publicly reveals Snape's steadfastness.[5]

Pre-release history

Choice of title

Shortly before releasing the title, J. K. Rowling announced that she had considered three titles for the book.[5][12] The final title, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was released to the public on December 21, 2006 via a special Christmas-themed hangman puzzle on Rowling's website, confirmed shortly afterwards by the book's publishers.[13] Asked during a live chat as to the other titles she had been considering, Rowling mentioned Harry Potter and the Elder Wand and Harry Potter and the Peverell Quest.[5]

Marketing campaigns

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Jacket art of Scholastic (US) edition.
Scholastic's seven questions
In the build-up to the book's release, American publisher Scholastic released seven questions that fans would find answered in the final book:[14]
  1. Who will live? Who will die?
  2. Is Snape good or evil?
  3. Will Hogwarts reopen?
  4. Who winds up with whom?
  5. Where are the Horcruxes?
  6. Will Voldemort be defeated?
  7. What are the Deathly Hallows?

The launch was celebrated by an all-night book signing and reading at the Natural History Museum in London, which Rowling attended along with 1700 guests chosen by ballot.[15] Rowling toured the USA in October 2007, where another event was held at Carnegie Hall in New York with tickets allocated by sweepstake.[16]

Scholastic Inc., the American publisher of the Harry Potter series, launched a multi-million dollar "THERE WILL SOON BE 7" marketing campaign with a 'Knight Bus' travelling to forty libraries across the United States, online fan discussions and competitions, collectible bookmarks, tattoos, and the staged release of seven Deathly Hallows questions most debated by fans.[17]

Scholastic also hosted "Harry Potter Place" — a magical and interactive street celebration at Scholastic headquarters in New York City, where the first U.S. signed edition of Deathly Hallows was unveiled on July 20 2007.[18] The festivities included a 20 foot (6 metre)-high Whomping Willow, face-painting, wand-making, fire-eaters, magicians, jugglers and stilt-walkers.

Several bookstores set up small kiosks displaying free-to-take bookmarks. The bookmarks show reasons why Severus Snape should be considered a friend or a foe on opposite sides along with the Deathly Hallows logo at the bottom.[19]

J. K. Rowling arranged with her publishers for a poster bearing the face of the missing Madeleine McCann to be made available to book sellers when Deathly Hallows was launched on 21 July and said that she hoped that the posters would be displayed prominently in shops all over the world.[20]

Rowling on finishing the book

Rowling completed the book while staying at the Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh in January 2007, and left a signed statement on a marble bust of Hermes in her room which read: "J.K. Rowling finished writing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in this room (652) on 11 January 2007".[21] In a statement on her website, she said, "I've never felt such a mixture of extreme emotions in my life, never dreamed I could feel simultaneously heartbroken and euphoric." She compared her mixed feelings 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 ended her message, "Deathly Hallows is my favourite, and that is the most wonderful way to finish the series."[22]

When asked before publication about the forthcoming book, Rowling stated that she could not change the ending even if she wanted to. "These books have been plotted for such a long time, and for six books now, that they're all leading a certain direction. So, I really can't."[23] She also commented that the final volume related closely to the previous book in the series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, "almost as though they are two halves of the same novel."[24] She has said that the last chapter of the book was written "in something like 1990", as part of her earliest work on the series.[25]

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.[26] To this end, Bloomsbury invested GB£10 million in an attempt to keep the book's contents secure until the July 21 release date.[27] Arthur Levine, U.S. editor of the Harry Potter series, denied distributing any copies of Deathly Hallows in advance for press review, but two U.S. papers published early reviews anyway.[28][29]

Online leaks and early delivery

In the week prior to its release, a number of texts purporting to be genuine leaks appeared in various forms. On July 16, a set of photographs representing all 759 pages of the U.S. edition was leaked and was fully transcribed prior to the official release date.[30][31][32][33] The photographs later appeared on websites and peer-to-peer networks, leading Scholastic to seek a subpoena in order to identify one source.[34] This represented the most serious security breach in the Harry Potter series' history.[35] Rowling and her lawyer admitted that there were genuine online leaks.[36] 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 confirmed that the main circulating leak was real.[37]

Scholastic announced that approximately one ten-thousandth (0.0001) of the U.S. supply had been shipped early — interpreted to mean about 1,200 copies.[38] 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 possible penalties.[39] However, the following day Scholastic announced that it would be launching legal action against DeepDiscount.com and its distributor, Levy Home Entertainment.[40] Scholastic has filed for damages in Chicago's Circuit Court of Cook County, claiming[41] 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 US$250 from an initial price of US$18.[42]

Price wars and other controversies

ASDA,[43] 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 GB£5.00 a copy (about US$10). Other retail chains also offered the book at discounted prices.[44] In Malaysia, a similar price war brought about controversy regarding sales of the book.[45] The book's early Saturday morning release in Israel was criticised for violating the Sabbath.[46]


Critical reception

The Baltimore Sun's critic, Mary Carole McCauley, praised the 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?"[47]

Reviewer Alice Fordham from The Times writes that "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."[48]

By contrast, Jenny Sawyer of the Christian Science Monitor says that while "There is much to love about the Harry Potter series, from its brilliantly realised magical world to its multilayered narrative," however, "A story is about someone who changes. And, puberty aside, Harry doesn't change much. As envisioned by Rowling, he walks the path of good so unwaveringly that his final victory over Voldemort feels, not just inevitable, but hollow."[49]

Stephen King criticised the reactions of some reviewers to the books, including McCauley, for jumping too quickly to surface conclusions of the work.[50] He felt this was inevitable, because of the extreme secrecy before launch which did not allow reviewers time to read and consider the book, but meant that many early reviews lacked depth. Rather than finding the writing style disappointing he felt it had matured and improved. He acknowledged that the subject matter of the books had become more adult, and that Rowling had clearly been writing with the adult audience firmly in mind since the middle of the series. He compared the works in this respect to Huckleberry Finn and Alice in Wonderland which also achieved success and have become established classics, in part by appealing to the adult audience as well as children.

In the August 12, 2007 New York Times, Christopher Hitchens compared the series to World War Two-era English boarding school stories, and while he wrote that "Rowling has won imperishable renown" for the series as a whole, he also opined that her "repeated tactic of deus ex machina has a deplorable effect on both the plot and the dialogue", that the mid-book camping chapters are "abysmally long" and that Voldemort "becomes more tiresome than an Ian Fleming villain."[51]

Speed-reading world champion Anne Jones read the book's 199,900 words in 47 minutes and 1 second. She said, "Without being too critical, the plot does seem to be a bit complicated, but I would not change a word. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows is a real page-turner."[52]

Time magazine's Lev Grossman named it one of the Top 10 Fiction Books of 2007, ranking it at #8, and praising Rowling for proving that books can still be a global mass medium. Opining that the book is "dense with Rowling's ruling themes: love and death", Grossman compared the novel to the earlier books in the series thus: "This isn't the most elegant of the Potter volumes, but it feels like an ending, the final iteration of Rowling's abiding thematic concern: the overwhelming importance of continuing to love in the face of death."[53][54]

Translations

Main article: Harry Potter in translation

Following a pre-release question from the Swedish publisher about the difficulty of translating the two words "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.[55]

The first translation to be released was the Ukrainian translation, on September 25, 2007 (as Гаррі Поттер і смертельні реліквії).[56]

The Polish title is Harry Potter i Insygnia Śmierci - Harry Potter and the Insignia of Death - a title chosen in an internet poll of fans[citation needed].

Film adaptations

A two-part film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is planned, with David Yates, who directed the preceding two films, directing both parts. Part I is slated for release on November 19, 2010, and Part II in May 2011.[57][58] The script was delayed as Steve Kloves was not able to start working on it until the 2007-08 Writers Guild of America strike had ended.[59] Filming begins in February 2009 and will last for a year.[60] Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson will reprise their roles as Harry, Ron and Hermione,[61] while Helena Bonham Carter, Brendan Gleeson, Timothy Spall, David Thewlis, Maggie Smith, and Helen McCrory have confirmed they will reprise their roles as Bellatrix Lestrange, Mad-Eye Moody, Peter Pettigrew, Remus Lupin, Minerva McGonagall, and Narcissa Malfoy respectively.[62][63][64][65][66] Imelda Staunton wishes to reprise the role of Dolores Umbridge.[67]

John Williams, who composed the scores to the first three films, has expressed interest in returning to score the films.[68]

Editions

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Stack of the Scholastic version displayed at Comic Con 2007.
Bloomsbury (United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, etc.)
  • ISBN 0-7475-9105-9 Hardcover
  • ISBN 0-7475-9106-7 Hardcover (adult edition)
  • ISBN 0-7475-9107-5 Hardcover (special edition)
Scholastic (United States, etc.)
  • ISBN 0-545-01022-5 Hardcover
  • ISBN 0-545-02937-6 Deluxe Hardcover; Raincoast (Canada, etc. - Same as Bloomsbury editions)
  • ISBN 1551929767 Hardcover
  • ISBN 1551929783 Hardcover (adult edition)

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