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| name = <font color="white">Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows</font>
| Author = [[J. K. Rowling]]
| Illustrator = Jason Cockcroft ([[UK]]),<br>William Webb and Michael Wildsmith (UK adult), </br> [[Mary GrandPré]] ([[U.S.]])
| Caption = The UK Children's Cover (U.S.)
| Genre = [[Fantasy novel|Fantasy]]|<br>[[Thriller (genre)|Thriller]]
| Publisher = [[Bloomsbury Publishing PLC]], [[Scholastic Press]], [[Raincoast Books]],<!--Canada--> [[Allen & Unwin]] |
| ISBN (UK version) = 978-0-7474-9105-4 <ref>{{cite web
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| Release date = Saturday [[July 21]], [[2007]] |
| Number in series = Seven |
| Page Count = {{flagicon|UK}} 608<br>{{flagicon|USA}} 759
| Sales = 1,800,000 in pre-order
| Story timeline = [[Chronology of the Harry Potter stories|Mid 1997 - mid 1998]] and late 2017<!--It's a British book, so autumn please, not fall--> in the epilogue|
| Preceded by = ''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]''
| Followed by = |None= <ref>{{cite web
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'''''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows''''' is the seventh and final [[book]] in the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series of novels by [[J. K. Rowling]]. Released globally in 93<ref name=countries>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6907855.stm|title=Rowling 'nerves' at Potter launch|publisher=BBC|date=2007-07-20|accessdate=2007-03-29}}</ref> countries at a minute past midnight (00:01), [[British Summer Time]], on [[21 July]] [[2007]] (2007-07-20 23:01 [[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]]), the book reached the top spot on both the [[Amazon.com]] and [[Barnes and Noble]] bestseller lists just a few hours after the date of publication was announced on [[1 February]] [[2007]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hpana.com/news.19747.html|title='HPDH' reaches no. 1 on U.S. Amazon & BN lists|publisher=[[HPANA]]|date=2007-02-01|accessdate=2007-03-29}}</ref> In the [[United States]]<ref name=release-date>{{cite news|url=http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/news_view.cfm?id=97|title=Publication Date for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows|publisher=J. K. Rowling Official Site|last=Rowling|first=J. K.|date=2007-02-01|accessdate=2007-03-29}}</ref> and [[Canada]],<ref name=Canada-release>{{cite web|url=http://raincoast.com/harrypotter/index.html |title=Official Raincoast Harry Potter page |publisher=Raincoast Books |accessdate=2007-07-20}}</ref> the book was released for sale within each separate time zone at 00:01 local time, a few hours after other English-speaking countries.
The book chronicles the events directly following ''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]'', leading to the long awaited final struggle between [[Harry Potter (character)|Harry Potter]] and his allies, and the ever-more-powerful and influential [[Voldemort]] and his allies, the [[Death Eater]]s.
Retailers such as [[Amazon]], [[Barnes & Noble]] and [[Borders Group|Borders]] are reporting that more orders have been placed for this book than for any other in history,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2007-05-02-summer-books-cover_N.htm|title=After final 'Harry Potter' book, can anyone fill the void?|date=[[2007-05-03]]|work=[[USA Today]]|last=Blais|first=Jacqueline|accessdate=2007-05-03}}</ref> and American publisher [[Scholastic Corporation|Scholastic]] announced an unprecedented initial print run of 12 million copies.<ref name=scholastic_announcement>{{cite web|url=http://www.scholastic.com/aboutscholastic/news/press_03142007_BA.htm| accessdate=2007-03-29|date=2007-03-14|title=Scholastic Announces Record-Breaking 12.1 Million First Printing In United States Of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows|publisher=[[Scholastic Corporation|Scholastic]]}}</ref>
==Plot summary==
{{plot|date=July 2007}}
===Beginning of book===
The book begins at the home of [[Lucius Malfoy]], with [[Severus Snape|Snape]] and a Ministry official, [[Minor Dark wizards in Harry Potter#Yaxley|Yaxley]], informing [[Lord Voldemort]] of the date [[Harry Potter (character)|Harry Potter]] intends to leave the Dursleys' house. Voldemort borrows Lucius' wand, because his own is ineffective against Harry (due to [[Priori Incantatem]]). Voldemort plans to kill Harry when he is being moved to a new safe place, which must happen when he turns seventeen and his safety with the [[Dursley family|Dursleys]] expires. Yaxley claims that Harry will be moved on the 30th, when he turns seventeen; however, Snape disagrees, saying that he will be moved a week earlier.
Snape's claim is true; Harry is leaving before he turns 17. On the night he is to leave the Dursleys' home, he reads an obituary of [[Albus Dumbledore]], written by Dumbledore's friend Elphias "Dogbreath" Doge. Harry learns about Dumbledore's family including his brother [[Aberforth Dumbledore|Aberforth]] and sister [[Ariana Dumbledore|Ariana]] through a stinging article by [[Rita Skeeter]] examining the family's convoluted history, and he regrets not having asked Dumbledore more about his past.
With the Dursleys escorted to safety by a pair of wizards, the [[Order of the Phoenix (organisation)|Order of the Phoenix]] arrives to sneak Harry out of his house. Despite an attempted decoy involving six younger members of the Order of the Phoenix taking a [[Polyjuice potion]] to make themselves look like him, Harry, accompanied by [[Hagrid]], is correctly identified by his "trademark" [[Expelliarmus|disarming spell]] (as he dislikes hurting people) and attacked by Voldemort and his [[Death Eater]]s. Harry's wand, surprisingly, still reacts with Voldemort's new, borrowed wand, destroying it. [[Hedwig (Harry Potter)|Hedwig]], Harry's owl, is killed by a stray Killing Curse. After narrowly escaping, Harry and the Order eventually reach the Burrow. [[George Weasley]] has lost an ear due to the Sectumsempra curse cast by Snape, and [[Alastor Moody]] had been killed by Voldemort himself. Reacting to Voldemort's anger at his escape, Harry has a vision of the Dark Lord interrogating Ollivander the wand maker over why his borrowed wand still reacted with Harry's.
A few days later, the [[Minister of Magic]] arrives at the Burrow to give Harry, Ron, and Hermione bequests from Dumbledore's will. Ron is given Dumbledore's Deluminator (or "Put-Outer"), with the power to capture lights, Hermione receives a book of children's stories written in Ancient Runes, and Harry inherits [[Godric Gryffindor]]'s sword and the first [[Quidditch|Snitch]] that Harry had ever caught. The Ministry withholds the sword after investigating all the items. The three try to discover the purpose of the bequests without success; Harry only manages to find an inscription on the Snitch: "I open at the close."
Near the end of Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour's wedding reception, news comes that Voldemort has taken over the [[Ministry of Magic]], and that [[Rufus Scrimgeour]] is dead, replaced by [[Pius Thicknesse]], who is Imperiused. The Death Eaters attack again, trying to capture the now disguised Potter. The three flee the wedding, first to a [[Muggle]] [[café]], but after being attacked by Death Eaters again, to 12 Grimmauld Place, the former home of the Black family. There, the three realize that [[Regulus Black|Regulus Arcturus Black]] was the [[R.A.B.]] who removed the locket from the lake, dying in the attempt. However, the house elf Kreacher tells them that [[Mundungus Fletcher]] has stolen the locket from the house. Fletcher reveals that he has passed it on to [[Dolores Umbridge]] as a bribe to keep him from being arrested.
===Middle of book===
After a month of spying on the Ministry of Magic, the trio attempt to infiltrate it to retrieve the [[Horcrux]] from Dolores Umbridge using [[Polyjuice Potion]] and ambushing three workers at the Ministry of Magic. They discover the Ministry of Magic has changed considerably; Muggle-born wizards and witches are being rounded up openly for questioning, and the Fountain of Magical Brethren has disappeared, replaced by a statue of a witch and wizard sitting upon moulds of Muggle-borns. The trio are separated by other Ministry workers, but eventually locate Umbridge as she is interrogating Muggle-borns and take the Horcrux, knocking her out in the process. They free a number of Muggle-born wizards and witches, and encourage them to leave the country. However, the trio's hiding place at 12 Grimmauld Place is discovered by Yaxley and they are forced to flee to the countryside, moving from place to place, never staying anywhere too long.
After several months of this, they overhear a conversation by [[Ted Tonks]], [[Griphook]] and [[Dean Thomas]] revealing that the Ministry only possesses a replica of Gryffindor's sword; the original's ___location is unknown. Harry questions the portrait of Phineas Black, and discovers that Dumbledore used the sword to destroy a Horcrux, the Gaunts' ring. Harry suggests attempting to locate the real sword, but Ron objects, feeling that this is a pointless quest. After an argument with Harry, he leaves the group. Harry and Hermione are greatly saddened, but decide to go to [[Godric's Hollow]] on the off-chance that Dumbledore left the sword there for them there.
Arriving in Godric's Hollow, the two first visit the memorial to Harry's family, then the graveyard, where both Harry and Dumbledore's families are buried. There they encounter the old woman [[Bathilda Bagshot]], an old family friend of Dumbledore's who wrote ''A History of Magic''. Thinking she may have been entrusted with the sword, they follow her to her house. But this is a trap; the apparent Bagshot is [[Nagini]], Voldemort's snake [[familiar spirit|familiar]], and Harry and Hermione only narrowly escape from Voldemort, accidentally breaking Harry's wand; an attempt to mend it using Hermione's wand does not work.
On the run for a few more days, eventually a doe [[Patronus Charm|Patronus]] appears on the edge of their camp and leads Harry to Godric Gryffindor's sword, hidden in a frozen forest pool. Harry strips down and dives after the sword, but the locket Horcrux which Harry is carrying responds poorly and tries to strangle Harry. Ron returns and saves Harry from drowning, and also retrieves the sword from the pool. The two then destroy the Horcrux with the sword and return to camp. Hermione is less than pleased with Ron and his return, but had discovered their next step: to speak to [[Xenophilius Lovegood]] and ask him about [[Minor Dark wizards in Harry Potter#Grindelwald|Grindelwald]]'s mark, a symbol which has shown up several times during their journey.
====The Deathly Hallows====
At Lovegood's home, Harry, Ron, and Hermione are told an old wizard story about three brothers who bested Death, and each had received a magical item for it, the three '''[[Deathly Hallows (objects)|Deathly Hallows]]''' – an unbeatable wand (called the Elder Wand), a stone which could bring back the dead (the Resurrection Stone), and an Invisibility Cloak that never failed with age. Harry believes that his own cloak is that Invisibility Cloak, and is very excited, but soon discovers that Lovegood has betrayed them to the Ministry; [[Luna Lovegood|Luna]], his daughter, has been taken captive and he believes that giving them Harry Potter would cause them to free her. The trio barely escape from the wizards sent to fetch them, but Harry is emboldened and believes that they need to collect all the Deathly Hallows, these artifacts given by Death, to defeat Voldemort.
A few weeks later, the three are still no closer to finding the Deathly Hallows or more Horcruxes. They finally manage to tune into a rogue wizard radio broadcast, run by people they know which gives news on what is really happening. However, Harry accidentally says Voldemort's name and Voldemort's followers, having made the name [[Taboo]] so anyone saying it can be immediately traced, find Harry, Ron, and Hermione and capture them, taking them to [[Lucius Malfoy]]'s home. There, Hermione is tortured and interrogated by [[Bellatrix Lestrange]] to find how she acquired Godric Griffindor's sword, believing it to have been stolen from her vault (Bellatrix's one is a fake), while Harry and Ron are imprisoned in the basement with Dean Thomas, Griphook the goblin, [[Ollivander]] the wand maker, and [[Luna Lovegood]]. Harry asks the broken fragment of mirror he has for help and [[Dobby]] appears to help him, freeing them. Dobby saves Dean and Ollivander, but they have made too much noise and [[Wormtail]] is sent to check on the prisoners. Harry and Ron subdue him, and Wormtail refuses to strangle Harry. Ron takes away Wormtail's wand and Wormtail's artificial hand, made by Voldemort, strangles its owner to death for the mercy he has shown. Ron and Harry, helpless to aid him, rush upstairs to save Hermione with the help of Dobby. They escape as Voldemort is close to arriving, but Dobby is slain by Bellatrix Lestrange as they flee to Shell Cottage, [[Bill Weasley]] and [[Fleur Delacour]]'s home.
Harry and his friends bury Dobby and begin planning anew. Harry questions Ollivander about the Elder Wand, and chooses not to try and prevent Voldemort from acquiring it from the tomb of its last owner, Dumbledore. Instead, he questions Griphook about how to break into [[Gringotts]], and in exchange offers him the goblin made sword of Godric Gryffindor. After extensive planning, the group goes to Gringotts to see if they can find one of the Horcruxes in the Lestrange vault; Hermione poses as Bellatrix Lestrange, Ron is disguised, and Griphook and Harry go in under the Invisibility Cloak. They manage to penetrate the traps and find the Horcrux, Hufflepuff's cup, but are detected while doing so. Griphook seizes this opportunity to flee with the sword. Harry, Ron, and Hermione narrowly escape on the back of a captive dragon, but Voldemort discovers at last that they are seeking out his Horcruxes.
Harry has a vision shortly after the escape; he can see from Voldemort's eyes and hear his thoughts. Voldemort lists all the locations of the Horcruxes, realizing now they are being sought after and destroyed. Voldemort inadvertently reveals that the final Horcrux, which Harry suspects to be a relic of the founder of Ravenclaw, is safe within Hogwarts. Harry realizes that if they want to get the Horcrux within Hogwarts, they need to do so immediately, before Voldemort finds his other Horcruxes missing and puts more protection on the remaining ones.
===The Second Battle of Hogwarts===
At Hogsmeade, Harry, Hermione, and Ron are cornered by Death Eaters in the street, but they are saved by the quick thinking of [[Aberforth Dumbledore]]. Aberforth opens a secret passageway to Hogwarts through a portrait of his sister, where [[Neville Longbottom]] greets them.
When Harry arrives at Hogwarts, he alerts the Heads of Houses at Hogwarts to Voldemort's imminent arrival, and evacuation measures are implemented to ensure the younger students' safety with the older ones encouraged to stay and fight. Dumbledore's Army and subsequently members of the Order of the Phoenix are called to help. After saving Draco Malfoy's life, Harry finds Ravenclaw's lost diadem in the [[Room of Requirement]]. Draco Malfoy and Crabbe and Goyle are also in there after the diadem. Crabbe mishandles a spell and sets on fire the centuries' accumulation of junk and items hidden there by students, and it is destroyed. Harry and his friends get away on two [[broomstick]]s which they find in there, and manage to rescue Draco and Goyle, but Crabbe cannot be found in time and dies in the fire. Ron and Hermione go to the Chamber of Secrets to retrieve the Basilisk fang in order to destroy the Hufflepuff cup Horcrux.
Hagrid is captured by [[acromantula]]s and later ends up a captive in the hands of the [[Death Eaters]]. [[Fred Weasley]] is killed by a [[Death Eater]] just after his estranged brother [[Percy Weasley]] comes back to reunite with his family. Harry, Hermione and Ron go to the Shrieking Shack, where they see Voldemort kill [[Severus Snape|Snape]], believing this will transfer the Elder Wand's power to him. As he dies, Snape gives up his memories to Harry, who uses the Pensieve to find out that Snape was on Dumbledore's side, motivated by his lifelong love of Lily Potter. Snape was asked by Dumbledore to kill him if the situation demands it; the curse placed on the Horcrux ring (which is also the Resurrection Stone) limited Dumbledore's life, regardless. Harry also discovers that he himself is a Horcrux, and that Voldemort cannot be killed while Harry remains alive. Resigned to his fate, Harry goes to the Forbidden Forest where Voldemort is, but not before he tells Neville that he must kill Nagini, the snake. Harry then uses the Resurrection Stone (hidden in the Snitch) to see his parents, Lupin and Sirius one last time before he sacrifices himself to Voldemort and is seemingly killed by the [[Avada Kedavra]] curse.
However, Harry awakens and meets the deceased [[Albus Dumbledore]] in an enormous deserted hall, which is explained to be a sort of equivalent to [[King's Cross railway station]]. Here, it is explained he cannot die while Voldemort lives since he used Harry's blood to recreate his body, and Lily's protection binds the two. It is unclear if he actually dies, or it is merely a dream. He finds that the spell destroyed the part of Voldemort's soul he had inside himself which is represented by a wounded dying creature. He also discovers that Dumbledore sought the Hallows, with Grindelwald, for less than noble reasons - resulting in the death of his sister Ariana during a duel between Albus Dumbledore, Aberforth Dumbledore and Grindelwald. Only Harry is worthy of possessing the Hallows. It is also revealed that Harry's wand reacted against Voldemort's borrowed wand as Voldemort's wand had once had the Priori Incantatem spell used on it by Harry's wand, thus it would have such a reaction against the owner next time, even if the wand he was using was not his. Harry is given the choice of "going on", or returning to try and stop Voldemort; he chooses the latter.
Back in the forest, on Voldemort's orders, [[Hagrid]] carries Harry (seemingly dead) back to Hogwarts to much dismay and shock to those there. Bravely, Voldemort is faced down by [[Neville Longbottom |Neville]], who rejects his offer to join him and become a Death Eater. Voldemort then summons the [[Sorting Hat]] and puts it on Neville's head and sets it on fire to torture him - at that moment, the Centaurs attack. In the confusion, Harry covers himself with the invisibility cloak, and Neville kills Nagini, the last Horcrux, using Gryffindor's sword pulled from the Sorting Hat. In the ensuing battle, [[Remus Lupin]], [[Nymphadora Tonks]] and [[Colin Creevey]] are killed (the exact cause is unconfirmed), [[Antonin Dolohov]] is killed by [[Filius Flitwick]], [[Pius Thicknesse]] by [[Arthur Weasley]] and [[Bellatrix Lestrange|Bellatrix Lestrange]] is killed by [[Molly Weasley]] causing Harry to reveal himself to prevent Voldemort from killing her in retaliation. Coming face to face with Voldemort in the Great Hall, Harry is seemingly faced with impossible odds - with Voldemort possessing the Elder Wand, he cannot be beaten in a duel. However, Harry gambles correctly that [[Draco Malfoy]] was the true master of the Elder Wand, not Snape, since it was Draco who had disarmed Dumbledore and thus had beaten him in a duel, and Snape was acting according to Dumbledore's wishes in killing him. With Malfoy disarmed, the mastery of the wand has passed to Harry. When Voldemort strikes Harry with the killing curse from the Elder Wand it rebounds on him, thus Voldemort is responsible for his own death. Harry decides to return the Elder Wand to Dumbledore's grave instead of keeping it for himself, but not until after using it to repair his own wand.
====Epilogue====
In the story's epilogue, taking place 19 years after the Second Battle of Hogwarts, Harry and [[Ginny Weasley]] are married and have three children named James, Albus Severus, and Lily. Ron and Hermione are also married and have two children named Rose and Hugo. The two families meet up at King's Cross Station when taking their children to Platform Nine and Three-Quarters for their departure to Hogwarts. Lily is too young to attend Hogwarts just yet, Albus is entering his first year at the school, and James is already an experienced Gryffindor.
At the station, Harry, Ginny, Ron, and Hermione spot Draco Malfoy across the platform with his wife (unnamed) and his son Scorpius. Though Harry and Ron acknowledge him, it is clear that tension remains. The mischevious James catches Teddy Lupin, the son of Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks and Harry's godson, kissing Victoire, Bill and Fleur's daughter. It is revealed that Neville Longbottom has become the Herbology Professor at Hogwarts. The Sorting Hat apparently survived the battle of 19 years ago or has been repaired or replaced.
Harry's scar has not hurt since the Dark Lord's defeat.
===List of characters killed===
{| class="prettytable"
|-
!align="center"|Character
!align="center"|Killed By
!align="center"|Cause of Death
!align="center"|Point of Death
|-
|[[Minor Hogwarts teachers#Charity Burbage|Charity Burbage]]
|[[Voldemort]]
|[[Unforgivable Curses#Avada Kedavra (The Killing Curse)|Avada Kedavra]]
|Gathering of Death Eaters at Malfoy Manor
|-
|[[Hedwig (Harry Potter)|Hedwig]]
|A Death Eater
|Avada Kedavra
|The flight from [[Little Whinging]]
|-
|[[Alastor Moody]]
|[[Voldemort]]
|Avada Kedavra
|The flight from Little Whinging
|-
|[[Ted Tonks#Family and relationships|Ted Tonks]]
|Snatchers
|Unknown
|The search for Muggles and Blood Traitors
|-
|[[Minor Slug Club members#Dirk Cresswell|Dirk Cresswell]]
|Snatchers
|Unknown
|The search for Muggles and Blood Traitors
|-
|[[Gregorovitch]]
|[[Voldemort]]
|Unknown
|Unknown
|-
|[[Rufus Scrimgeour]]
|[[Voldemort]]
|Unknown
|Unknown
|-
|[[Minor_Dark_wizards_in_Harry_Potter#Gellert_Grindelwald|Grindelwald]]
|[[Voldemort]]
|Avada Kedavra
|Coincides with the escape from Malfoy Manor
|-
|[[Wormtail]]
|[[Wormtail]]
|Strangulation by his own silver hand
|The escape from Malfoy Manor
|-
|[[Dobby]]
|[[Bellatrix Lestrange]]
|Throwing Knife
|The escape from Malfoy Manor
|-
|[[Remus Lupin]]
|Unknown
|Unknown
|[[The_Second_Wizarding_War#Second_Battle_of_Hogwarts|Second Battle of Hogwarts]]
|-
|[[Nymphadora Tonks]]
|Unknown
|Unknown
|Second Battle of Hogwarts
|-
|[[Vincent Crabbe]]
|Himself
|Fiendfyre
|Second Battle of Hogwarts
|-
|[[Severus Snape]]
|[[Nagini]]
|Snake Bite
|Second Battle of Hogwarts
|-
|[[Fred Weasley]]
|Rookwood
|Unknown
|Second Battle of Hogwarts
|-
|[[Colin Creevey]]
|Unknown
|Unknown
|Second Battle of Hogwarts
|-
|[[Nagini]]
|[[Neville Longbottom|Neville]]
|Beheaded with Gryffindor's sword
|Second Battle of Hogwarts
|-
|[[Antonin Dolohov]]
|[[Professor Flitwick]]
|Unknown Spell
|Second Battle of Hogwarts
|-
|[[Bellatrix Lestrange]]
|[[Molly Weasley]]
|Unknown Spell
|Second Battle of Hogwarts
|-
|[[Voldemort]]
|Himself
|A rebounding |Avada Kedavra
|Second Battle of Hogwarts
|-
|}
It is noted that about 50 people were killed in the Second Battle of Hogwarts, but most of their names are not given.
===List of Horcruxes found===
{| class="prettytable"
|-
!align="center"|Horcrux
!align="center"|Destroyed by
!align="center"|How
|-
|Riddle's diary
|Harry
|Basilisk fang
|-
|Marvolo's ring (Resurrection Stone)
|Albus Dumbledore
|Godric Gryffindor's sword
|-
|Slytherin's locket
|Ron Weasley
|Godric Gryffindor's sword
|-
|Hufflepuff's cup
|Hermione
|Basilisk fang
|-
|Ravenclaw's tiara
|Vincent Crabbe
|Fiendfyre
|-
|Harry Potter
|Voldemort
|Avada Kedavra
|-
|Nagini
|Neville Longbottom
|Gryffindor's Sword
|-
|}
The final (eighth) piece of Tom Riddle's soul remained inside of Voldemort, and was destroyed by Harry by a reflected Avada Kedavra curse.
== Pre-release controversy ==
=== Anticipation ===
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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/|title=J.K.Rowling Official Site|publisher=J K Rowling|accessdate=2007-05-18|date=14 May 2007}}</ref> To this end, Bloomsbury invested £10m in an attempt to keep the book's contents secure until the [[July 21]] release date.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://inhome.rediff.com/movies/2007/jul/16harry.htm|title=10 million pounds to guard 7th Harry Potter book|publisher=Rediff|accessdate=2007-07-16|date=16 July 2007}}</ref> However, there was speculation that some shops would break the embargo and distribute copies of the book early, as the penalty imposed for previous installments — that the distributor would not be supplied with any further copies of the series — would no longer be a disincentive.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6292128.stm|title=Potter embargo 'could be broken'|publisher=BBC News|accessdate=2007-07-17|date=12 July 2008}}</ref>
=== Online leaks ===
In the week prior to its release, a number of texts purporting to be genuine leaks appeared in a number of forms. On [[July 16]], a set of photographs representing all 759 pages of the U.S. edition was leaked to the Internet and was fully transcribed prior to the official release date.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://torrentfreak.com/harry-potter-fans-transcribe-book-from-photos/|title=Harry Potter Fans Transcribe Book from Photos|publisher=TorrentFreak|accessdate=2007-07-19|date=18 July 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/new-potter-book-leaked/2007/07/18/1184559825094.html|title=New Potter book leaked online|publisher=Sydney Morning Herald, Fairfax newspapers|accessdate=2007-07-18|date=18 July 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://torrentfreak.com/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-leaked-to-bittorrent/|title=Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows leaked to BitTorrent|publisher=TorrentFreak|accessdate=2007-07-19|date=17 July 2007}}</ref> One source reported that this leak came from the [[GameFAQs]] message boards,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19837939/site/newsweek/page/2/|title=Fans Break Potter Embargo, Does it Matter?|publisher=[[MSNBC]]|work=Newsweek|date=[[2007-07-18]]|accessdate=2007-07-19}}</ref> and later appeared on websites and [[peer-to-peer]] networks, leading [[Scholastic Corporation|Scholastic]] to seek a [[subpoena]] in order to identify the source.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=782b5d71-685a-4566-9d14-e81a3246e7b8&k=22091|title=Harry Potter finale allegedly leaked online|publisher=CanWest MediaWorks Publications|accessdate=2007-07-16|date=16 July 2007}}</ref> Scholastic described the content of the texts as "convincing" but refused to comment on their authenticity, noting only that several texts had conflicting content, with a similar reaction from the publishers.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/17/books/17cnd-potter.html?_r=1&ref=books&oref=slogin|title=New Harry Potter Book May Have Made Its Way To Web|publisher=New York Times|access date=2007-07-17|date=17 July 2007}}</ref> This represents the most serious security breach in the Harry Potter series' history.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0fe8abcc-34aa-11dc-8c78-0000779fd2ac.html|title=Web abuzz over Potter leak claims|date=17 July 2007}}</ref> Rowling and her lawyer admitted that there were genuine online leaks, but they did not specify which ones they were or if the whole book was available. She requested on her site that fans ignore the online leaks and that readers do not spoil the plot for those waiting on the release on Friday night.<ref>{{cite news
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| title = Harry Potter and the great web leak
| url = http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article2100186.ece
| publisher = ''Times''
| date = 2007-07-19
| accessdate = 2007-07-19}}
</ref>
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'' subsequently, correctly, confirmed that the main circulating leak was real.
=== Early delivery ===
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 whether they would be penalized.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bal-te.to.potter18jul18,0,394574,print.story?coll=bal_tab01_layout|title=The spell is broken|accessdate=2007-07-18|date=18 July 2007|publisher=The Baltimore Sun}}</ref> However, later the following day, Scholastic announced that approximately 1 ten-thousandth (0.01%) of the US supply had been shipped early, constituting around 1200 copies,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/ny-etharry0718,0,6688206.story?coll=ny-entertainment-headlines|title=Publisher slams book on "Harry Potter" distributor|accessdate=2007-07-18|date=18 July 2007|publisher=Newsday}}</ref> and that it would be launching legal action against DeepDiscount.com and its distributor, Levy Home Entertainment.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/07-18-2007/0004628143&EDATE=|title=Press release from Scholastic|publisher=PR Newswire (from Scholastic)|accessdate=2007-07-18|date=July 18, 2007}}</ref> Scholastic has filed for damages in Chicago's Circuit Court of Cook County, claiming<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19816389/|title=Distributor mails final Potter book early|publisher=MSNBC Interactive|accessdate=2007-07-18|date=July 18, 2007}}</ref> 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 $250 from an initial price of $18.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=OTYxYmE5Y2UzNDMyNWQ2YzFmYTk3NzY1MTkxZGFhNzI=|title=I Was an eBay Voldemort|accessdate=2007-07-20|date=20 July 2007|publisher=National Review Online}}</ref>
===Price Wars===
In [[Malaysia]], as [[Harry Potter]] fans awaited the [[July 21]], [[2007]] release of the book, a price war brought about controversy regarding sales of the book.<ref name="pricewars">{{cite web| url=http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/7/21/nation/18369076&sec=nation| title=Harry Potter and the ugly price war| accessdate=2007-07-21| date=21 July 2007|publisher=The Star Malaysia}}</ref> Four of the biggest bookstore chains in Malaysia, [[MPH Bookstores]], [[Popular Bookstore]]s, Times and Harris, have decided to pull ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'' off their shelves as a protest against [[Tesco]] and [[Carrefour]] hypermarkets. The retail price of the book in Malaysia is [[Malaysian ringgit|RM]]109.90 (about [[United States dollar|US$]]32.12), while the hypermarkets [[Tesco]] and [[Carrefour]] sell the book at [[Malaysian ringgit|RM]]69.90 (about [[United States dollar|US$]]20.43). This is seen as a move to pressure the distributor [[Penguin Books]] to remove the books from the hypermarkets.<ref name="pricewars" />
In the [[UK]], supermarket [[Asda]] claimed that the retail price of the book (UKP17.99: equivalent to US$37 at the time of release) was "holding children to ransom". The publisher responded by threatening to withdraw Asda's supply of the book, claiming a previously unpaid debt [http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article2089458.ece]. Asda issued an apology and settled the debt, and its supply of the book was restored. [http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2128891,00.html]
Asda, plus several other UK supermarkets, took pre-orders for the book at a discounted price and then announced a further discount on the day before release; they finally sold the book at UKP5.00 (equivalent to US$10.28 at the time of release), less than the wholesale price. The book was sold as a [[loss leader]], with the supermarkets taking a loss of just over UKP3 with every copy sold, but attacting large numbers of customers to their stores. Some supermarkets offered this low price only if a minimum value of other products were bought at the same time; Asda did not impose even this restriction. This attracted uproar from UK booksellers who argued they had no hope of competing in those conditions [http://www.accesshollywood.com/news/ah6148.shtml]; independent bookstores protested loudest, but even [[Waterstone’s]], the UK's largest dedicated chain bookstore, could not compete with the supermarket price. Some small bookstores bought their stock from the supermarkets rather than their wholesalers. [http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article2089458.ece?token=null&offset=12] Philip Wicks, a spokesman for the UK Booksellers Association, said: 'It is a war we can't even participate in. We think it's a crying shame that the supermarkets have decided to treat it as a loss-leader, like a can of baked beans." Michael Norris, an analyst at Simba Information, said: "You are not only lowering the price of the book. At this point, you are lowering the value of reading."
==Early critical reception==
Arthur Levine, U.S. editor of the ''Harry Potter'' series, denied distributing any copies of ''Deathly Hallows'' in advance for press review.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?vid=163195|title=Editor Says 'Deathly Hallows' Is Unleakable|publisher=MTV Overdrive (video)|accessdate=2007-07-19|date=July 17, 2007}}</ref>
[[Image:Potter queue.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Waiting for Harry Potter at midnight in Borders, San Francisco]]
On July 18, ''[[The Baltimore Sun]]'' published online the first review of the book. Writer Mary Carole McCauley, who received early access to the book, praised ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'' as a "classic ''[[bildungsroman]]'', a coming-of-age tale about the maturation of the title character". She notes that "...book seven lacks much of the charm and humor that distinguished Rowling's earliest books. Even the writing is more prosaic", but then observes that given the book's darker subject matter ([[death]]), "how could it be otherwise"? An editor's note appended to the review claims that the paper acquired a hardcopy of the book "through legal and ordinary means".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/booksmags/bal-2potter0718,0,2741335.story?coll=bal_tab05_layout|title=An inevitable ending to Harry Potter series|publisher=Baltimore Sun|accessdate=2007-07-21|date=July 18, 2007}}</ref>
Several hours later on [[July 18]], ''[[The New York Times]]'' also posted online a positive review of the book. Critic [[Michiko Kakutani]], who purchased the book from a retail outlet in [[New York City]], wrote "The world of Harry Potter is a place where the mundane and the marvelous, the ordinary and the surreal coexist...and people's lives are defined by love and loss and hope — the same way they are in our own mortal world."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/18/books/19pottercnd.html?ref=arts|title=For Harry Potter, Good Old-Fashioned Closure|publisher=The New York Times|accessdate=2007-07-21|date=July 18, 2007}}</ref>
Ms. Kakutani's review provoked negative response from some ''Harry Potter'' fans who felt the review revealed details of the book's plot. At least one fan website called for a letter-writing campaign to ''The New York Times''.<ref>{{Citation| last = Annelli| first = Melissa| author-link = |url =http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/indexm.php?id=10201| title = New York Times Posts Spoilers: Call For Letters| date = 19 July| year = 2007}}</ref>
A representative of [[Bloomsbury]], the UK publisher of the ''Harry Potter'' series, responded to the reviews:
<blockquote>
As the originating publisher, we're really disappointed with what happened in the US. We're relying on the support of retailers and the media in the rest of the world to allow readers to find out for themselves. We are asking people to wait.
There's only 40 hours to go.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a1c0Bma.AMZc&refer=muse|title=Harry Potter Publisher Bloomsbury `Disappointed' at Early Leak|publisher=Bloomberg News|accessdate=2007-07-21|date=July 19, 2007}}</ref></blockquote>
According to the ''[[The Washington Post]]'', a Bloomsbury spokeswoman also "likened the events in the United States to the [[Boston Tea Party]], a 1773 protest by American colonists against Britain."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/19/AR2007071902177.html|title=Rowling angered by early reviews of last Potter|publisher=Washington Post|accessdate=2007-07-20|date=July 19, 2007}}</ref>
[[JK Rowling]], author of the Harry Potter books, said:
<blockquote>
I am staggered that some American newspapers have decided to publish purported spoilers in the form of reviews in complete disregard of the wishes of literally millions of readers, particularly children, who wanted to reach Harry's final destination by themselves, in their own time.
I am incredibly grateful to all those newspapers, booksellers and others who have chosen not to attempt to spoil Harry's last adventure for fans.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hpana.com/news.20116.html |title=Fans dismayed with early reviews of 'Deathly Hallows' |publisher=HPANA|accessdate=2007-07-19|date=July 19, 2007}}</ref></blockquote>
[[Image:First hallows buyer.jpg|right|thumb|The first person in line at the Burlington, Vermont, U.S., Barnes & Noble bookstore started reading, moments having bought the book, under a streetlight.]]
In response to complaints, ''The New York Times'' books, culture and theatre editor Rick Lyman defended the decision to publish the review. He stated:
<blockquote>
Our feeling is that once a book is offered up for sale at any public retail outlet, and we purchase a copy legally and openly, we are free to review it.
As for charges that we gave away the ending, that is simply not true. We took great care not to do so, nor to give away significant details about who lives and who dies.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldnewsaustralia.com.au/region.php?id=138551®ion=4|title=Potter author condemns leak|publisher=World News Australia|accessdate=2007-07-20|date=July 19, 2007}}</ref></blockquote>
On [[July 20]], the ''The New York Times'' also stated that the main circulating leak available on the internet was indeed authentic, after comparing the book Ms. Kakutani had purchased and based her review upon with the leak's photographs.
Following the review and these subsequent statements, ''The New York Times'' received further complaints from many ''Harry Potter'' fans.
The third and last pre-release American book review of ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'' was published on [[July 20]] by the online newsmagazine [[Salon.com]]. There was no detail given on how reviewer Laura Miller obtained her copy.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.salon.com/books/review/2007/07/20/harry/index_np.html|title=Goodbye, Harry Potter|publisher=Salon.com|accessdate=2007-07-20|date=July 20, 2007}}</ref>
==Dedications==
''The Dedication of this book is split in seven ways:
To Niel,
to Jessica,
to David,
to Kenzie,
to Di,
to Anne,
and to you
If you have
stuck
with Harry
until the
very
end.''
==After ''Deathly Hallows''==
{{Mergewith|Harry Potter|date=July 2007}}
Rowling spent seventeen years writing the seven Harry Potter books. In a 2000 interview through [[Scholastic Corporation|Scholastic]], her American publisher, Rowling stated that there is not a university after Hogwarts and "''I won't say "never," but I have no plans to write an eighth book.''"<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/author/transcript1.htm
|title=Transcript of JKR's live interview on Scholastic.com
|date=2000-02-03}}</ref>
When asked about writing other books similar to ''[[Quidditch Through the Ages]]'' and ''[[Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them]]'', she has said that she might consider doing this with proceeds donated to charity, as was the case with those two books. Another suggestion is an encyclopedia-style tome containing information that never made it into the series, also for charity.<ref name=new_chapter>{{cite web |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;?xml=/news/2007/05/13/npotter13.xml|title=A new chapter for HP and JK|publisher=[[The Telegraph]]|accessdate=2007-06-15|date=[[2007-05-12]]}}</ref>
In February 2007 Rowling issued a statement on her website about finishing the final book, in which she compared her mixed feelings of "mourning" and "incredible sense of achievement" to those expressed by [[Charles Dickens]] in the preface of the 1850 edition of [[David Copperfield (novel)|David Copperfield]], "a two-years' imaginative task". "To which", she added, "I can only sigh, try seventeen years, Charles..."
She continued "I've never felt such a mixture of extreme emotions in my life, never dreamed I could feel simultaneously heartbroken and euphoric." Recognising that her readers might experience similar feelings, she consoled them with the thought that "there will be plenty to continue arguing and speculating about, even after ''Deathly Hallows'' comes out." She ended her message: "'Deathly Hallows' is my favorite, and that is the most wonderful way to finish the series."<ref name="End">{{cite news|url=http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2007-02-06-rowling_x.htm|title=Rowling reacts to Potter's end|publisher=[[Associated Press]]|work=[[USA Today]]|date=[[2007-02-06]]|accessdate=2007-07-21}}</ref>
The release of ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'' wiped more than $310m from the stock value of Bloomsbury, Rowling's publisher, as investors believed the publisher had lost their most significant product. [http://arts.independent.co.uk/books/news/article2640435.ece]
==Editions==
; Bloomsbury (United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, etc.)
*ISBN 0747591059 Hardcover
*ISBN 0747591075 Hardcover (special edition)
; Raincoast (Canada, etc.)
*ISBN 1551929767 Hardcover
*ISBN 1551929783 Hardcover (adult edition)
; Scholastic (United States, etc.)
*ISBN 0545010225 Hardcover
*ISBN 0545029376 Deluxe Hardcover
The titles of non-English editions will be translated from ''Harry Potter and the Relics of Death''.
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==References==
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==External links==
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*[http://www.jkrowling.com/ J.K. Rowling's Official Website]
*[http://www.bloomsbury.com/harrypotter Harry Potter at Bloomsbury.com web site] U.K. publisher book information
*[http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter Harry Potter at Scholastic.com web site] U.S. publisher book information
*[http://raincoast.com/harrypotter/index.html Harry Potter at Raincoast.com web site] Canadian publisher book information
*[http://harrypotter.allenandunwin.com/ Harry Potter at Allen & Unwin web site] Australia-New Zealand publisher book information
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