Genre: Fantasy/Adventure
About the Story
Main Character – Who/What: Harry Potter, a young wizard famous for being the only one surviving the Avada Kedrava spell, the killing curse.
2nd Character – Who/What: Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger: Harry Potter’s best friends.
Place: The Story took place in Great Britain Island.
Time: Nowadays
****WARNING: SPOILERS**** The following sections contain several details from the plot of the book
Plot: What is the Story about
This book is the seventh and last book of the most famous and wealthy series of books ever made. The entire novel draws upon a boy who discovered himself, at the age of eleven, as a wizard and also very famous in the magical community by surviving a killing spell cast upon him when he was a mere child by Lord Voldemort, an evil and powerful wizard who had threatened both magical world and non-magical.
Every book is one year in the wizarding school of Witchcraft and Wizardry of Hogwarts, so we follow Harry’s journey and his life since his first year at school until his last. Each and every book presents new clues and mysteries concern the strange connection between this young wizard and The Dark Lord which we, readers, are forced to pursuit together with Harry throughout the books.
The seventh book, Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, is about the quest Harry must carry on to destroy Voldemort once for all, which had been slightly outlined by Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts and a protector for Harry, in the previous adventure.
What Happened in the end
Voldemort is defeated and destroyed, but with a high cost. A war is also held at Hogwarts, many people die but the final battle between Harry and Voldemort is utterly amazing. Harry doesn’t defeat the Dark Lord this moment but along the whole story trough means Voldemort had never dreamed of, because he never cared about the power of Love, and he has judge himself as best as everyone else. When both of them truly come to face each other at the end, Harry only states the real situation and how Voldemort and his plans sounded so absurd in face of the whole plot, the whole background, and makes clear how he, Harry, had solved the puzzle no one else had to really defeat Voldemort. Totally convinced of his own superiority, Voldemort is destroyed partially due his own self-confidence.
The last chapter s situated nineteen years from these events and tells how life has gone on for Harry and his beloved friends, as well as many of the main characters that still alive.
Brief Summary about the Story
Harry, Ron and Hermione decide to leave Hogwarts this year to carry out the plan to find and destroy the remained Horcruxes – kind of talismans into which Voldemort has kept pieces of his own soul – to make possible killing Voldemort once for all. Things are far than easy, they have to fight not only with the Death Eaters, but also with the temptations of despair and his own pride. Harry’s weird psychic connection with Voldemort seems to have grown stronger too, giving him clues to Voldemort’s actions and whereabouts, even as it attracts him even closer to the dark side.
In their searches for the remained Horcruxes, they face an astonishing story about the Deathly Hallows, a fairy tale for children that tells about three brothers who tried to cheat Death and as a reward for such achievement Death allowed them to ask for certain items. One brother got a stone to resurrect the dead, one brother got a wand to defeat anyone in a wizard's duel, and one brother asked for an invisibility cloak. Harry possesses one of them - the invisibility cloak – the only hallow which can be passed to the owner’s descendents, what connects Harry to the three brothers of the fantastic tale. Together, these artifacts give the owner the power to master death. And a struggle takes place inside Harry’s soul and he must decide on either carrying on with the mission to destroy Voldemort or become the master of death himself.
To sum it all up, Harry must seek out these items (the Deathly Hallows) and reunite them (but not for his own use), as well as destroy the last of Voldemort's Horcruxes, and then defeat Voldemort once for all.
What did I think of the book
I think this last book is definitely the best book of the Potter’s series. But there isn’t a way to speak of one without speaking of the others. This final chapter ends majestically the whole plot of Harry’s stories, which has grown along the books within a more philosophic field.
The world of Harry Potter is a place where the mundane and the marvelous, the ordinary and the surreal coexist, a place where death and the catastrophes of daily life are inevitable, and people’s lives are defined by love and loss and hope — the same way they are in our own non-magical world. So far from the black-and-white scenario that Harry Potter of J. K. Rowling has drawn for us in his earlier adventures the seventh chapter there’s much more grey nuances; things and people’s nature may be more complicated than they initially seemed, that all of them, like Harry, have hidden aspects to their personalities, and the choice between what is easy and what is right — more than talent or predisposition — matters most of all.
Alongside J. K. Rowling’s ability to go from the themes like banal frustrations of school and dating, to really important and philosophic issues about life, choice, self-sacrifice, the real meaning of being a leader, the true meaning of vanquish both death and life, the storyline is full of wonderful and a huge imagination, also very clever in a way of Sherlock Holmes-style mystery adventure which will conquer anyone with an affection for mysteries.
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