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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

By J.K. Rowling

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| Paperback | 9780545139700

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A send-off fit for a wizard

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling 608pp, Bloomsbury, £17.99 There are still one or two questions left unanswered at the end of Harry Potter's last adventure. It cannot be giving anything away to reveal that we never discover how Eloi ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

No more school

When, ten years ago, you bought for Jack or Chloe a jolly-sounding novel about a schoolboy getting up to all sorts of pranks at an academy for wizards, I don’t suppose you could have predicted the tone of the seventh and last book in the series. It i ... (read full critics)

spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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Great ending. Full of Aww moments.

I probably should have read the Half Blood Prince again before opening this one. I’ve only read the last few books the once, and often speed reading and almost skimming in places, so I know I’ve missed out on plenty of the detail. But at some stage I’ll go back and reread them all. And going to see ... (continue)

I probably should have read the Half Blood Prince again before opening this one. I’ve only read the last few books the once, and often speed reading and almost skimming in places, so I know I’ve missed out on plenty of the detail. But at some stage I’ll go back and reread them all. And going to see the film version of Order of the Phoenix really helped remind me about the more important plot points from that book.
Like all the Harry Potter books the writing isn’t outstanding. But it does its job perfectly. It is gripping and once you’ve started you just want to keep reading. I think I’ve read the last three in a single sitting. Her plot, more than anything else, pulls you along and you just don’t want to put the book down. I’m not sure if I can put my finger on exactly what it is that make these so readable, I know it isn’t the prose, and I don’t think it is the characters. They aren’t really well developed or fleshed out, but they are recognisably different from one another, and I suppose the almost thumbnail sketches allows us readers to paint in our own detail. We fill in all the missing bits with our own imagination. And for a children’s book I think this is a great thing. I’m not saying that they are one dimensional, because they aren’t, they do have shadings and nuances, but they just don’t have the depth… but maybe that is the point. Maybe that is what makes them so interesting to us; we can paint our own shadings on to them.
As for the ending of this? Well it final and, in my view, fitting. There is a lot of death, I’m not going to say who, but there is a lot of it. And not just at the very end, but sprinkled throughout the novel. Overall I thought it a very satisfying finale to the series of books. Now I just have to wait to see those final battles scenes up on the big screen, if they are half as good as the ones in OotP then they’ll be something to behold.

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Dee said on Jul 22, 2007 about the Hardcover edition | 2 feedbacks

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Piton, ti amo.

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Serena! -A Mordor il male non dorme mai. said on Dec 5, 2010 about the Hardcover edition | 5 feedbacks

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'After all this time?'
'Always,' said Snape.

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Clà said on Aug 30, 2007 about the Hardcover edition | 1 feedback

http://moshi7.blogspot.com.es/2007/11/harry-potter-7.ht…

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Moshiblog said on May 31, 2012 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

"One of them was a Slytherin and he was the bravest man I ever knew."

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Andùril said on Apr 9, 2012 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

It's all over...

Its all over. I must admit I shed a fair few tears even though its my second read of the book. I read it for the first time immediately when it was released and I seem to have forgotten fair portions of it until reading them again.
This is definitely a far cry from the Philosophers Stone with hardl ... (continue)

Its all over. I must admit I shed a fair few tears even though its my second read of the book. I read it for the first time immediately when it was released and I seem to have forgotten fair portions of it until reading them again.
This is definitely a far cry from the Philosophers Stone with hardly anything left in it for children to grasp. Ok its still about witches and wizards but there's no Hogwarts, no Hagrid, no classes, no Dumbledore and no playtime for Harry and his friends. It's a lot more a tale now of Harry's quest for the truth about what his destiny really entails and how if at all he must defeat Voldemort.
Although the book does drag in places, I think it does help to build the tension of what you know is going to be a tremendous finale. The book is scattered throughout with deaths, some minor some not so minor. Not wanting to give too much away but some people may not have been happy with the finale thinking that perhaps JK chickened out of giving us something other than a happy ending but I have to admit I was delighted with the ending. It cleared up all loose ends and most importantly the characters got the ending they deserved. Well most of them....!

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Lauraolsthoorn said on Feb 25, 2012 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback