Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Author: J.K. Rowling
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Date of Publication: 2007
Format: Hardcover
Page Count: 759 Pages
Cost: $34.99
ISBN: 0-545-01022-5
Plot Summary: In this final installment of Rowling’s seven-part Harry Potter series, Harry and his friends have dropped out of their last year of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in order to hunt down and destroy Voldemort’s seven horcruxes. They spend most of the year isolated and on the run as the entire wizarding community is ripped apart by Voldemort and his death eater followers. Harry learns the legend of the Peverell brothers and begins looking for the elder wand, a wand which cannot be destroyed in a duel. In a climactic final battle on the grounds of Hogwarts many lives are lost on both sides, but eventually Harry is able to defeat Voldemort for good. A short epilogue provides a brief glimpse into the lives of Harry and his friends nineteen years after that battle, as they prepare their own children to begin a new school year at Hogwarts.
Evaluation: This book provides a stunning and undeniably satisfying conclusion to an exceptionally popular series. Readers will laugh and cry along with Harry and his friends as they triumph and experience setbacks during their journey. Rowling has created characters so rich and a fantasy world so vivid that young readers are sure to be enthralled by this series for many years to come. Fans of these books will delight in this final installment and find themselves unable to put it down.
Reader’s Annotation: Harry Potter and his friends must make one final, valiant stand against the evil Voldemort, but a prophecy says that neither can live while the other survives.
Links:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Reader’s Guide
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