ravenclaw
2007-07-22 16:47:11 UTC
I'm not really happy with the harry potter ending... i think there
are lots of questions unanswered , confusions and too much characters
got killed. Anyways check the site below(after the deathly hallows
summary) if your loss in the Harry Potter book. It will surely
helps.
I wonder why Proffesor Minerva Mcgonagall became a least character in
book7.
♥
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Beginning of book
The book begins at the home of Lucius Malfoy, with Snape and a
Ministry official, Yaxley, informing Lord Voldemort of the date Harry
Potter intends to leave the Dursleys' house. Voldemort borrows Lucius'
wand, because his own is ineffective against Harry's wand (due to the
wands sharing twin cores ). 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 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
and sister 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 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" disarming spell (as he dislikes hurting people) and
attacked by Voldemort and his Death Eaters. Harry's wand,
surprisingly, still reacts with Voldemort's new, borrowed wand,
destroying it. Hedwig, Harry's owl, is killed by a stray Killing
Curse. After narrowly escaping, Harry and the Order eventually reach
the Weasley residence, 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 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 Arcturus Black was the R.A.B. who removed the locket from the
lake, dying in the attempt. However, the house elf Kreacher, after
some persuasion, tells them that Mundungus Fletcher has stolen the
locket from the house. Fletcher is caught by Kreacher and unwillingly
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, 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 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
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 - 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, 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 the younger students are
evacuated for safety and the older students encouraged to stay and
fight. Dumbledore's Army and subsequently members of the Order of the
Phoenix are called to help.
Harry, Hermione, and Ron go into the Room of Requirement to look for
Ravenclaw's lost diadem. 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 the fire destroys the diadem. Harry and his friends get away on
two broomsticks 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 Basilisk
fangs to be able to destroy the Hufflepuff cup Horcrux; Ron gets in by
imitating Harry's Parseltongue.
Hagrid is captured by Acromantulas and later ends up a captive in the
hands of the Death Eaters. Fred Weasley's estranged brother Percy
Weasley arrives and reunites with his family. Just after, a Death
eater kills Fred. In the same battle, Remus Lupin, Nymphadora Tonks,
and Colin Creevey are also killed (the exact cause is unconfirmed).
Harry, Ron and Hermione magage to escape to go to the Shrieking Shack,
where they see Voldemort kill 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 Evans
(Harry's mother). 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 tells Neville to kill Nagini, the snake, and goes to the
Forbidden Forest where Voldemort is. 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,
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 because
Voldemort's wand had once had the Priori Incantatem spell used on it
by Harry's wand; it would have a similar reaction against Voldemort
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, 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 Antonin Dolohov is killed by Filius
Flitwick, Pius Thicknesse by Arthur Weasley, and Bellatrix Lestrange
by Molly Weasley. Harry reveals himself to prevent Voldemort from
killing Molly 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-it was Draco who had disarmed Dumbledore
and thus had beaten him in a duel, while Snape was acting according to
Dumbledore's wishes in killing him. Because he disarmed Malfoy, the
mastery of the wand has passed to Harry. When Voldemort strikes Harry
with the killing curse from the Elder Wand it rebounds and kills
Voldemort. Harry decides to return the Elder Wand to Dumbledore's
grave instead of keeping it for himself, though 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.
from site:
http://www.answers.com/topic/harry-potter-book-seven
are lots of questions unanswered , confusions and too much characters
got killed. Anyways check the site below(after the deathly hallows
summary) if your loss in the Harry Potter book. It will surely
helps.
I wonder why Proffesor Minerva Mcgonagall became a least character in
book7.
♥
Plot summary
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Beginning of book
The book begins at the home of Lucius Malfoy, with Snape and a
Ministry official, Yaxley, informing Lord Voldemort of the date Harry
Potter intends to leave the Dursleys' house. Voldemort borrows Lucius'
wand, because his own is ineffective against Harry's wand (due to the
wands sharing twin cores ). 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 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
and sister 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 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" disarming spell (as he dislikes hurting people) and
attacked by Voldemort and his Death Eaters. Harry's wand,
surprisingly, still reacts with Voldemort's new, borrowed wand,
destroying it. Hedwig, Harry's owl, is killed by a stray Killing
Curse. After narrowly escaping, Harry and the Order eventually reach
the Weasley residence, 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 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 Arcturus Black was the R.A.B. who removed the locket from the
lake, dying in the attempt. However, the house elf Kreacher, after
some persuasion, tells them that Mundungus Fletcher has stolen the
locket from the house. Fletcher is caught by Kreacher and unwillingly
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, 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 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
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 - 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, 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 the younger students are
evacuated for safety and the older students encouraged to stay and
fight. Dumbledore's Army and subsequently members of the Order of the
Phoenix are called to help.
Harry, Hermione, and Ron go into the Room of Requirement to look for
Ravenclaw's lost diadem. 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 the fire destroys the diadem. Harry and his friends get away on
two broomsticks 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 Basilisk
fangs to be able to destroy the Hufflepuff cup Horcrux; Ron gets in by
imitating Harry's Parseltongue.
Hagrid is captured by Acromantulas and later ends up a captive in the
hands of the Death Eaters. Fred Weasley's estranged brother Percy
Weasley arrives and reunites with his family. Just after, a Death
eater kills Fred. In the same battle, Remus Lupin, Nymphadora Tonks,
and Colin Creevey are also killed (the exact cause is unconfirmed).
Harry, Ron and Hermione magage to escape to go to the Shrieking Shack,
where they see Voldemort kill 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 Evans
(Harry's mother). 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 tells Neville to kill Nagini, the snake, and goes to the
Forbidden Forest where Voldemort is. 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,
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 because
Voldemort's wand had once had the Priori Incantatem spell used on it
by Harry's wand; it would have a similar reaction against Voldemort
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, 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 Antonin Dolohov is killed by Filius
Flitwick, Pius Thicknesse by Arthur Weasley, and Bellatrix Lestrange
by Molly Weasley. Harry reveals himself to prevent Voldemort from
killing Molly 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-it was Draco who had disarmed Dumbledore
and thus had beaten him in a duel, while Snape was acting according to
Dumbledore's wishes in killing him. Because he disarmed Malfoy, the
mastery of the wand has passed to Harry. When Voldemort strikes Harry
with the killing curse from the Elder Wand it rebounds and kills
Voldemort. Harry decides to return the Elder Wand to Dumbledore's
grave instead of keeping it for himself, though 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.
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