Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows

The final book begins with Voldemort and his Death Eaters at the
home ofLucius Malfoy, Malfoy Manor. They are beginning to plan out
how to kill Harry Potter during his vulnerable period after he leaves 4
Privet Drive. After "borrowing" Lucius's wand — Voldemort does so in
a way that indicates Lucius has no choice — Voldemort kills his
captive, Hogwarts ProfessorCharity Burbage, teacher of Muggle
Studies, for teaching the subject and for an article she wrote
suggesting that Muggles should be treated as equals toPure-bloods.
Harry Potter, meanwhile, is rummaging through his school trunk,
sorting what he will need to take with him from what will be left
behind. While taking a break, he reads some articles about Albus
Dumbledore. One is sympathetic, the other is critical of him. In those
obituaries, it is revealed that his father, Percival, supposedly hated
Muggles and had attacked several of them. Percival died
in Azkaban for his crimes. It is also suggested that Dumbledore was
responsible for the death of his younger sister Ariana, and that he
was, at one time, a Blood purity supremacist in league with Gellert
Grindelwald.
Harry regrets not having asked Dumbledore more about his past, but
this is soon forgotten as he leaves his home that night. He convinces
his Aunt Petunia, Uncle Vernon, and cousin Dudley that they need to
leave as well to avoid being captured by the Death Eaters.
Eventually Order of the Phoenix members and Ministry of
Magic Aurors,Dedalus Diggle and Hestia Jones, arrive to escort them
to an undisclosed location. Before leaving, Dudley admits that he
cares about Harry and thanks him for saving his soul during
the Dementor attack of 1995, and they shake hands.

Dudley thanks his cousin for saving his life.

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Soon after, the Order of the Phoenix arrives with a plan to sneak
Harry away from his house and avoid being captured by Voldemort.
After initially being against the plan, Harry acquiesces, seeing that he
has no choice, and Ron, Fred, and George Weasley, along
with Hermione Granger, Fleur Delacour, and Mundungus Fletcher,
take Polyjuice Potion to make themselves look like Harry, in order to
act as decoys for Voldemort. Each depart with a different Order
member to protect them while riding on broomsticks or Thestrals,
while Harry leaves with Hagrid in a sidecar attached to Sirius's
motorcycle. However, the plan goes badly wrong as the group is
attacked by Death Eaters almost immediately after taking off, during
which Hedwig is killed. Harry fights off Death Eaters by firing curses
and hexes at them, while Hagrid uses a number of gadgets the
motorcycle is now equipped with: a deployable solid brick wall, a net,
and a dragon fire booster.
The Death Eaters discover the real Harry after he attempts
to disarm an imperiused Stan Shunpike. Moments later, Voldemort
joins in the pursuit. Hagrid leaps off the bike at another Death Eater,
and as Voldemort is about to kill Harry, Harry's wand acts on its own
accord and shoots a curse at Voldemort and breaks Lucius's wand.
Voldemort attempts to strike again, but at that moment, Harry enters
the protective charms of the Tonks' home, and Voldemort and the
Death Eaters are unable to follow him.
Harry finds Hagrid, who had survived his fall, and meets Tonks'
parents, Ted and Andromeda. The couple show the two a Portkey,
which transports them straight to the Burrow. There, the casualties
are counted: Hedwig was struck by a killing curse; George's ear was
slashed off by Severus Snape; Mad-Eye Moody was killed by
Voldemort himself. Harry later has a vision regarding his escape, as a
result of a connection between his and Voldemort's minds, in which
Voldemort questions Ollivander, who crafted the wands, about why
Harry's wand acted as it did. Ollivander is unable to explain.
During their time at the Burrow, Harry, Hermione, and Ron are kept
busy with preparations for Bill and Fleur'swedding, which Harry
suspects is an attempt by Mrs. Weasley, Ron's mother, to stop them
planning and delay them from leaving. Nevertheless, they manage to
get together and discuss their plans for completing the quest
Dumbledore left them; to find and destroy Voldemort's Horcruxes.
The day before the wedding, Harry's 17th birthday, Harry has a vision
of Voldemort searching for someone known as Gregorovitch. For his
birthday, he receives a number of gifts, the most useful being a
new sneakoscope from Hermione. He also shares a short romantic
embrace with his ex-girlfriend, Ginny Weasley in her bedroom when
she kisses him as something to remember her by, which Ron
"accidentally" interrupts. Later in the day, Minister for Magic, Rufus
Scrimgeour, arrives at The Burrow to give Harry, Ron, and Hermione
the personal effects of Albus Dumbledore, which had been
bequeathed to them in his will: To Ron, the Deluminator (known as a
"Put-Outer" inHarry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone), with the
power to douse all lights in the surrounding area; to Hermione,The
Tales of Beedle the Bard, a book of wizard-culture fairy tales written
in Runes; and to Harry, Godric Gryffindor's Sword, and the
first Golden Snitch Harry had ever caught in a
Hogwarts Quidditch match. The sword was withheld because,
Scrimgeour claimed, it was not Dumbledore's to give. The three try to
discover the purpose of the objects given to them, but are forced to
give their attention to other matters: Fleur and Bill's wedding the
following day.
Harry disguises himself as "Ron's cousin" Barny Weasley for the
wedding to avoid causing an uproar. After the ceremony, while Ron
and Hermione are dancing Harry speaks with Elphias Doge and
Ron's great aunt Murielwhere he learns more not so savory details
from Dumbledore's past; Dumbledore had had a sister, Ariana, who's
existence had been hushed up by the family. Muriel believes the
reason for this is that Ariana was a squib. During the wedding
celebration, Kingsley Shacklebolt's Patronus arrives to warn the
attendants: Voldemort has taken over the Ministry of Magic and
Rufus Scrimgeour has been killed. Harry, Ron, and Hermione flee the
wedding, first arriving in a Muggle café in Tottenham court road.
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Though they think themselves safe for the moment, two Death
Eaters suddenly locate them, almost immediately upon their arrival,
and attack them. Harry, Ron, and Hermione manage to defeat the
Death Eaters, but thinking themselves in danger in public, flee to 12
Grimmauld Place, former Order headquarters, where they hide.
Although there was some debate whether Severus Snape could get
in, with reinforcement Death Eaters, but their fears were soon
realised to be untrue as they reached the dilapidated house.
The first morning there, Harry finds Regulus Arcturus Black, the
deceased younger brother of his also deceased godfather Sirius, and
a former Death Eater. Harry realises that Regulus was the R.A.B.
from the fake Horcrux locket Harry found with Dumbledore and began
searching the house for the real one. They soon surmise that the
locket had indeed been in the house. Unable to find it, they call upon
Kreacher, the Black family's house elf. Kreacher tells the trio that he
had helped Voldemort place the real Horcrux in the cave. After
Regulus learned of this, however, he had ordered Kreacher to return
with him to the cave in order to substitute a fake locket for the real
one, as the Black family would have been safer not involved in
Voldemort's affairs. Regulus was killed in the process while Kreacher
escaped with the Horcrux locket. Kreacher also tells them
that Mundungus Fletcher stole the locket, and they send him to find
Fletcher.
While waiting for Kreacher, the trio are visited by Order
member Remus Lupin. He explains more of the situation: the
Voldemort-controlled Ministry and Death Eaters are searching for
Harry, claiming that he had a part in Dumbledore's death, and the
Ministry is now openly persecuting Muggle-born wizards and witches.
He then offers to join the trio in their quest, not wanting to remain with
his wife Nymphadora Tonks, who is pregnant with their child,
because he fears the child will be a werewolf like him. Harry calls him
a coward for abandoning his son, and Lupin angrily storms off. Later,
Kreacher brings Fletcher back to Number 12 Grimmauld Place, but
he has already given away the locket to Dolores Umbridge as a bribe.

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After a month of spying on the Ministry of Magic, the trio infiltrate it in

order to retrieve the Horcrux from Umbridge. They ambush three
employees and use Polyjuice Potion to impersonate them with
Hermione taking on the appearance ofMafalda Hopkirk, Ron looking
like Reginald Cattermole, and Harry impersonatingAlbert Runcorn.
After being separated, Harry discovers Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody’s
magical eye has been taken by Umbridge. Thinking it a disgrace to
Moody's memory to keep it stuck in Umbridge's door, he steals the
eye, so as to give it a proper burial and the respect it deserves. Once
Harry reunites with Hermione, he witnesses the Muggle-Born
Registration Commission, set up to convict Muggle-borns of "stealing"
magic, at work. Enraged by what he sees, Harry stuns Umbridge and
the Death Eater Yaxley. Hermione takes the Horcrux, which
Umbridge had falsely used to bolster her credentials, from Umbridge.
By the time Harry and Hermione begin freeing the Muggle-borns, the
Ministry knows that there are intruders having discovered Moody's
eye missing. Once they reunite with Ron, they encourage the
Muggle-borns to flee the country. They make for the exit, and as they
escape, their hiding place is discovered, Ron is injured, and they are
forced to flee to the countryside. They move from place to place,
never staying anywhere for more than a night or two.

The trio at their camp

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After several weeks of travelling in which they accomplish nothing,

they overhear a conversation between Ted Tonks, Dirk
Cresswell, Dean Thomas, Griphook, andGornuk, wherein it is
revealed that Godric Gryffindor’s sword, which was in Dumbledore's
possession, then sent to the Lestrange Vault for protection, is actually
a copy, and someone took away the real sword. They also overhear
that some students attempted to steal the sword. Upon hearing that
the perpetrators were their friends, they worry about the punishment
but are relieved to hear that they only served detention with Hagrid.
Harry and Hermione hear all this and are heartened, and after
questioning the portrait of Phineas Nigellus Black, they discover that
the sword had last been used by Dumbledore to destroy another
Horcrux, Marvolo Gaunt's Ring. Hermione realises that it must be
impregnated with Basilisk venom. Ron is discouraged, feeling that
with the sword now necessary as well, and out of reach, their quest is
becoming hopeless. Ron argues with Harry and angrily departs
claiming that Hermione had chosen Harry over himself when she
decides to stay, leaving Harry and Hermione together; Initially
distraught (particularly Hermione) over Ron's departure, the two of
them realise they will have to continue without him.
After many more listless weeks, they make their way to Godric's
Hollow on the off-chance Dumbledore left the sword there for them,
with Bathilda Bagshot, author of 'A History Of Magic'. Arriving in
Godric's Hollow, the two first visit the graveyard where both Harry
and Dumbledore’s families are buried. After sharing an emotional
moment and laying a wreath on Harry’s parents’ grave, they visit the
memorial to Harry’s family, and then encounter the historian Bathilda
Bagshot, an old family friend of Dumbledore’s who authored A History
of Magic. Thinking she may have been entrusted with the sword, they
follow her to her house, where they find a picture of the Dark
WizardGellert Grindelwald. He was Bagshot’s relative and, long ago,
Dumbledore’s childhood friend. However, it is actually a trap;
“Bathilda” is actually Nagini, Voldemort’s snake familiar, and Harry
and Hermione only narrowly escape from Voldemort. Harry's wand is
accidentally destroyed by Hermione's Blasting Charm in the chaos.
Harry was briefly incapacitated following the incident in Godric's
Hollow. They spend Harry's day or two convalescence in the Forest
of Dean where Harry sits down to vindictively read Rita Skeeter's
book The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore. He discovers that the
boy he saw in Lord Voldemort's mind is none other than Grindelwald.
He discovers that Dumbledore and Grindelward had been good
friends, and had shared the idea that wizards should rule over the
Muggles. Harry reaches a new level of disillusionment with his former
mentor. The following evening, a Patronus in the shape of a silvery
doe appears on the edge of their camp and leads Harry toGodric
Gryffindor's Sword, hidden in a frozen forest pool. Harry strips down
to his underwear and dives down after the sword, but the locket
Horcrux on his neck tries to keep Harry under the water long enough
for him to drown.
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Ron returns in time to save Harry from drowning and pulls the sword
out of the pool, as Harry puts his many layers of clothes back on.
Then Harry suggests that it is Ron who must destroy the Horcrux with
the sword. Inside the Horcrux areTom Riddle's eyes from which
distorted versions of Harry and Hermione appear, the pair then speak
to Ron with Voldemort's cruel voice, claiming to love each other, and
not caring about Ron, who manages to stab the locket. Afterward,
Harry tells Ron he has absolutely no romantic feelings for Hermione
because he loved her as a sister and that she was very upset when
Ron left. The two then return to camp. Ron reveals that he was able
to find Harry with the aid of Dumbledore's gift, the Deluminator, which
has more powers than they originally thought. He reveals that
Voldemort's name has been "made Taboo": anybody saying it can be
traced and located, which is how they were found in the café.
She realises their next necessary step: to speak to Xenophilius
Lovegood and ask him about Grindelwald's mark, a symbol which
has shown up time and again during their journey. Only days after
escaping from Voldemort in Godric's Hollow, the trio begin searching
the hills surrounding Ottery St. Catchpole for the Lovegood
residence. AtLovegood’s home, Harry, Ron, and Hermione are told
that the symbol actually represents the Deathly Hallows. He then
introduces them to The Tale of the Three Brothers, a fairy tale about
three men who bested Death and each received a magical item for it:
An unbeatable wand (called the Elder Wand), a stone which could
bring back the dead (the Resurrection Stone), and an Invisibility
Cloak that can hide the wearer from Death itself and never failed with
age, unlike most cloaks of that nature. Lovegood tells them that the
three items are collectively represented by the symbol, and whoever
owns all three sacred items is the "Master of Death." Harry believes
his own cloak to be the legendary Invisibility Cloak and is very
excited. They discover that Lovegood has betrayed them to the
Ministry; Luna, his daughter, was taken captive earlier in the year
because he was encouraging support for Harry, and he believes that
giving them Harry will win her freedom. The trio barely escape from
the Death Eaters sent to fetch them. In an ingenious plan to ensure
escape, but also protect Ron's alibi, Hermione throws Harry's cloak
over Ron and blasts away the floor. When they are sighted by
the Death Eaters, she guides Harry and Ron as theyDissapparate.
After hearing the story of the Deathly Hallows, Harry becomes
obsessed with finding them, he begins to neglect his duties as the
group's leader as he sits in reverie. With Harry not performing, Ron
steps up to lead them as they venture up and down the island
checking in many places for any sign of another Horcrux. After listless
weeks, Ron finally manages to tune into a rogue wizard radio
broadcast called "Potterwatch", run by Lee Jordan, which reports on
what is really happening. The broadcast is quite entertaining, and
Harry laughs for the first time in months. However, after the
programme, Harry accidentally says Voldemort’s name and a group
of Snatchers find Harry, Ron, and Hermione and capture them, taking
them to Malfoy Manor.
There, they are taken into the drawing room to have their identities
confirmed. The Malfoys' son Draco is home for the Easter holidays.
He is reluctant to identify the trio, but when Lucius Malfoy is satisfied
that the prisoners are indeed Harry Potter and his accomplices, he
reaches for his Dark Mark. At that instant Bellatrix Lestrange, who
was with the Malfoys, stops Lucius. She has seen a sword being
carried by one of the Snatchers and believes it to be Godric
Gryffindor's Sword which is supposed to be in her vault. She singles
out Hermione for torture and interrogation to find how the trio
acquired the sword, while Ron and Harry are locked in a cellar with
Dean,Griphook, Ollivander, and Luna. Harry locates his broken shard
of mirror, sees a flash of blue in it resembling Dumbledore's eye, and
in desperation begs for help. Upstairs, Hermione lies to Bellatrix,
saying that the sword is a copy. Bellatrix sends Draco to fetch
Griphook who Harry convinces to corroborate Hermione's story. As
Draco slams the door, Dobby apparates into the cellar. Harry orders
him to take Dean, Luna, and Ollivander first and then return for
everyone else. When Dobby dissapparates, the noise is heard
upstairs and Wormtail is sent to investigate.
Harry and Ron attack him, and Wormtail resists, losing his wand to
Ron, but grabbing Harry's neck with his artificial hand. Harry calls
upon the Life debt that Wormtail owes him, and Wormtail momentarily
hesitates. Wormtail’s artificial hand, made by Voldemort three years
previous, immediately strangles Wormtail to death instead for the
mercy he has shown. Ron and Harry, helpless to aid him, rush
upstairs to save Hermione. They peek through the door to find
Hermione passed out on the floor, and Bellatrix questioning Griphook.
When they crash through the door, Ron disarms Bellatrix, and he and
Harry begin a fierce exchange of spells with the others in the room.
They are forced to stop, when Bellatrix threatens to cut Hermione's
throat. As Voldemort approaches, Dobby returns and drops the
chandelier onto Bellatrix. Ron sprints to pull Hermione from the
wreckage as Harry wrests three wands from Draco; his wand and the
wands Ron and Harry had taken during the earlier skirmish. Harry
picks up Griphook, seizes Dobby and dissapparates as Ron does the
same with Hermione. They escape as Voldemort is close to arriving,
but Dobby is slain by Bellatrix Lestrange as they flee.

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They arrive at Bill and Fleur's home, Shell Cottage. Upon coming to
his senses Harry realises that Dobby is dying. He digs Dobby's grave
by hand as Hermione and Griphook are tended to in the house. The
group holds a little funeral for the brave elf who saved their lives.
While digging the grave, Harry does some thinking. He realises
that Dumbledore had been right about Dobby and Ron and Pettigrew.
He comes to a reaffirmation of faith in his old mentor and loses his
burning obsession with the Deathly Hallows. Harry questions
Griphook about how to break into Gringotts Wizarding Bank, believing
that a Horcrux is hidden in Bellatrix'svault based on her reaction
when she saw that the trio had Gryffindor's Sword. Harry then
questions Ollivander about the Elder Wand, revealing his deep insight
into Lord Voldemort's way of thinking. Ollivander also gives him a
lesson on wand mechanics; when a wizard disarms, kills, or
otherwise defeats another wizard, they can use that wizard's wand as
well as their own. Harry tells Ron and Hermione that Voldemort is
seeking the Elder Wand as the way to defeat him. While telling them
this, he gets confirmation as he has a vision in which Voldemort
successfully steals the Elder Wand from the tomb of Dumbledore.
Griphook eventually agrees to help the trio, in return for Gryffindor's
sword. Harry reluctantly agrees, planning to give him the sword after
all the Horcruxes have been destroyed. He tells Griphook he can
have the sword after they have broken in to the Bank, but he is very
careful not to mention when, as Goblins are notoriously known for
going back on their word. The trio spend nearly a month planning,
only seeing daylight or the other occupants of the house at
mealtimes. Harry, as well as the other two, comes to strongly dislike
Griphook, because he seems to relish causing pain. Later, Remus
Lupin visits them again. He had returned to Tonks by Chistmas and
tells everyone that she has given birth to a son who does not have his
werewolf tendencies, instead possessing
Tonks'sMetamorphmagus abilities. Lupin also gives Harry the honour
of being Teddy Lupin's godfather. After many rounds of wine, he
departs, and as they are cleaning up, Bill corners Harry and tells him
to be wary of Griphook.
After extensive planning, on May 1st the group sets out
for Gringotts to obtain the Horcrux. Hermione poses by way
of Polyjuice Potion as Bellatrix using some hair that had been left on
her after the Battle of Malfoy Manor. Ron is disguised as a foreign
wizard, and Griphook and Harry go in under the Invisibility cloak.
Through the use of disguises and Harry's repeated use of
the Imperius Curse, they manage to gain access to the bank. As they
are travelling down the tunnel to the Lestrange Vault, their cover is
blown, and the defences are set against them. With Griphook's help,
they gain access to the vault and find the Horcrux, Helga Hufflepuff's
Cup. Harry grabs it, but Griphook betrays their presence and flees
with the sword. Harry, Ron, and Hermione narrowly escape the many
guards on the back of a captive half-blind dragon. Gryffindor's sword
is kept by Griphook.

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Harry has a vision shortly after the escape in which Lord

Voldemort lists off all the locations of the Horcruxes, realising now
they are being sought after and destroyed. Voldemort inadvertently
reveals that the unknown Horcrux, which Harry suspects to be a relic
of Rowena Ravenclaw, founder of Ravenclaw house, is safe
within Hogwarts Castle, confirming a belief he had shared with the
others to much derision. Harry realises that if they want to get the
Horcrux within Hogwarts, they need to do so immediately, before
Voldemort finds his other Horcruxes missing. They immediately
Apparate to Hogsmeade to find a way to sneak into the school.
When they arrive in Hogsmeade, they immediately trigger
the Caterwauling Charmplaced on the village alerting the Death
Eaters to their presence. Harry and friends are cornered by Death
Eaters, but are saved by Aberforth Dumbledore, Albus's brother.
Harry also discovers that Aberforth was the one he saw in the mirror
at Malfoy Manor. Aberforth urges the trio to flee, but they refuse to
give up. Aberforth then tells them the truth about Ariana; She had
been a witch, but an attack on her by muggle boys had left her unable
to control her abilities. Percival attacked the muggles in retaliation.
The family kept Ariana and her condition secret, to protect her, with
Kendra and Aberforth the ones caring for her the most. However, one
of Ariana's outbursts killed Kendra. With Aberforth about to return to
school, Albus took over care of Ariana, and ran into Grindlewald at
this time. He began to neglect his duties as he was planning his
uprising with Grindlewald, for which he was confronted by Aberforth.
The three wizards got into a fight, in which Ariana was killed.
Aberforth opens a secret passageway to Hogwarts, where Neville
Longbottom greets them. The trio learn that Neville, Ginny,
and Luna have restarted Dumbledore's Army to resist the regime
ofSeverus Snape, who was made headmaster following Voldemort's
takeover of the ministry.

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Neville summons members of the D.A. who have been forced to

leave the school, including Ginny, Luna, and Dean, or those who had
graduated previously, such asFred and George Weasley, Harry's old
Quidditch team, and his first girlfriend, Cho Chang. Harry asks them
what they know about an object of Ravenclaw's, which Dumbledore
believed to be a Horcrux. However, the only known relic is Rowena
Ravenclaw's Diadem, which has been lost for centuries. Wishing to
see what the diadem looks like, Harry and Luna venture under
Harry's Invisibility cloak toRavenclaw Tower. He reveals himself to
get a closer look at the diadem but is seen by Alecto Carrow who had
been stationed to watch the room. She
immediately summons Voldemort, but she is stunned by Luna. Soon,
bothAmycus Carrow and Minerva McGonagall arrive to see what the
disturbance is about. When Carrow suggests that they push the
blame off onto the students, McGonagall protests, and he spits in her
face. In a rage, Harry Cruciates him until he passes out. Harry asks
McGonagall for time to search the castle, but they come
across Severus Snape in the corridor, and Snape is run out of the
building.
Shortly after Harry's arrival, Voldemort discovers that two more of his
Horcruxes have disappeared, and gathers an army of Death
Eaters, Dementors, Acromantula, and Giants, in order to assault the
school and kill Harry once and for all. After Hogwarts sent Snape
fleeing, they raise their own army consisting of teachers, students,
the D.A., theOrder of the Phoenix, and enchanted statues and suits of
armour. At midnight, the Battle of Hogwarts begins. All the while
Harry tries to locate the diadem and Ron and Hermione who had
gone missing. When he speaks with the Grey Lady he surmises
that Tom Riddle had learned of the diadem's location from her.
Shortly after the battle begins, Harry recalls seeing the diadem in the
Room of Requirement and meets up with Ron and Hermione, who
had disappeared in order to retrieve Basilisk fangs from the Chamber
of Secrets to destroy the next two Horcruxes. The trio reenter the
Room of Requirement, and Ron remembers all about the house-elves
in the kitchens. He does not feel that it is right to order them to die for
them, so he makes his thoughts known. At this Hermione drops all
the basilisk fangs she is holding and she and Ron share a deep,
meaningful kiss, completely forgetting that Harry is there (and that
there is a war going on). After being reminded they search the Room
of Hidden Things, a version of the Room of Requirement that
students have used to hide things over the centuries. Once they are
in there and are looking for 'The Lost Diadem' they are confronted by
Malfoy and his cronies Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle. After a
short duel in which Crabbe aims to kill, Crabbe mishandles
the Fiendfyre spell, causing a huge inferno. Harry, Ron, Hermione,
Malfoy, and Goyle escape on two old brooms, and the diadem is
destroyed by the fire, along with Crabbe. After that, Fred and Percy
Weasley are seen duelling with two Death Eaters one of whom
is Minister for Magic Pius Thicknesse. After they defeat them, there is
an explosion in the corridor, and Fred is killed, deeply affecting his
brothers.

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With the cup and diadem destroyed, only one Horcrux remains:
Voldemort's snake familiar Nagini. The trio fight their way through the
castle, as the two armies battle it out furiously. Once onto the
grounds, they come across Voldemort'sDementors. Unable to
produce Patronuses, because of the horrors they have witnessed all
seems lost. They are saved by Seamus, Luna, and Ernie. Harry,
Hermione, and Ron finally make it to the Shrieking Shack, where
Voldemort is waiting. They discover him talking to Snape, who wishes
to participate in the battle to find Harry, but Voldemort's only concern
is that the Elder Wand does not seem to work properly for him. He
coldly sets his snake on Snape, believing that the wand cannot serve
him while Snape is still alive, as Snape had killed Dumbledore.
As he dies, Snape gives up memories to Harry. Voldemort then
delivers an ultimatum; if Harry does not surrender himself in an hour,
he will join the battle, and all in Hogwarts will be destroyed. Harry
sees people looking for loved ones and counting up the dead, Lupin
and Tonks laying next toColin Creevey and Fred. After seeing this,
Harry makes his way up to Dumbledore's office to see the memories
Snape left him. It is revealed that Snape was, in fact, a triple agent for
Dumbledore, motivated to protect Harry's life at all costs by his
lifelong love of Harry's mother, and had been loyal to Dumbledore
ever since Voldemort had decided to go after the Potters.
Dumbledore, cursed to die when he placed on the Gaunt
family ring (another horcrux) had asked Snape to kill him if the
situation demanded it, to spare himself a longer death at the hands of
Voldemort's henchmen. It is also shown that Snape had stolen the
true Gryffindor's Sword, and then passed it on to Harry.
Harry also learns from these memories that Dumbledore believed
Harry a Horcrux, and that Voldemort cannot be killed until Harry
himself is killed by Voldemort. Now resigned to his fate, Harry sneaks
out of the castle under hisInvisibility cloak and stops to tell Neville to
kill Nagini (the other remaining Horcrux) at all costs. Then, before he
sacrifices himself to Voldemort, he opens the Golden Snitch left to
him by Dumbledore to reveal the Resurrection Stone. He uses it to
summon the spirits of his parents, of Sirius, and of Remus Lupin, all
of whom provide emotional support as Harry walks to his death. He
enters Voldemort's camp and shows himself. He tries to betray no
fear as he allows himself to be hit with the Killing Curse. His "last
thought" is of Ginny.

Harry's mother comforting him before his "death"

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However, Harry finds himself in a sort of dream (later finding out it

was real) and meets the deceased Albus Dumbledore in what
appears to be a deserted King's Cross Station. Here, it is explained
he cannot be killed by Voldemort whilst Voldemort lives, since
Voldemort used Harry's blood to recreate his body; Lily's protection
over Harry binds the two and therefore tethers Harry to life. He
appears to be in a Limbo state in which he can speak to Dumbledore.
Dumbledore then gives Harry a theory on why his wand acted of its
own accord: as a result of their encounter in the Little Hangleton
Graveyard three years previous, Harry's wand imbued some of the
qualities of Voldemort's wand and regurgitated some of his own
magic back at him. He also discovers that the part of Voldemort's
soul he had had inside himself has been separated by the attempted
murder and is represented in his vision by a flayed naked child,
whimpering in agony and abandoned under a bench.
He also learns that Dumbledore himself had sought the Hallows, with
Grindelwald, for less than noble reasons. The death of his sister
resulted from their association. In Dumbledore's opinion, only Harry is
worthy of possessing the Hallows. With all of his secrets in the open,
Harry can no longer find himself angry with Dumbledore even after all
he has been through. Harry is given the choice of moving on or
returning to try to stop Voldemort. Harry chooses to return and fight.
Back in the forest, Voldemort orders Narcissa Malfoy to check and
see if Harry is dead, and after being subtly notified that her
son, Draco Malfoy, is alive and well inside Hogwarts, she tells
Voldemort and the Death Eatersthat Harry is indeed dead, (in order to
be able to enter the castle to find Draco). Voldemort then attempts to
desecrate Harry's "corpse" by casting the Cruciatus Curse on it
multiple times, but Harry feels no pain from these curses. Afterward,
Voldemort orders Hagrid to carry Harry back to Hogwarts. Voldemort
challenges Hogwarts to surrender, but is faced down by Neville.
Voldemort proceeds to torture Neville by summoning the Sorting Hat,
placing it on his head, and setting it aflame. At that moment,
Hogwarts reinforcements appear near the school boundaries and run
towards Hogwarts, the centaurs join the side of Hogwarts in the
battle, and the battle recommences.
In the confusion, Harry covers himself with the Invisibility Cloak.
Nagini, the last Horcrux, is beheaded by Neville using Gryffindor's
sword, pulled from the Sorting Hat. Harry fights his way into the Great
Hall casting curses and protective spells from underneath his cloak,
where a huge battle is taking place as Hogwarts fighters,
Dumbledore's Army, the Order of the Phoenix, and other forces battle
the remnants of Voldemort's army. At the height of the battle,
Voldemort fights Minerva McGonagall, his old mentor Horace
Slughorn, and Kingsley Shacklebolt, while nearby Bellatrix battles
Ginny, Luna, and Hermione. After Ginny narrowly avoids a killing
curse,her mother takes over and kills Bellatrix. In his anger,
Voldemort tries to kill Mrs. Weasley, but Harry reveals himself by
casting a Shield Charm to protect her.
Coming face to face with Voldemort in the Great Hall, Harry is
seemingly faced with impossible odds — Voldemort possesses
the Elder Wand and has murdered who he thought to be its previous
master, Severus Snape. Harry believes differently based on the
information he received from Ollivander; as Harry sees it, Draco
Malfoy became the true master of the Elder Wand when
he disarmed Dumbledore against his will, therefore, defeating him.
Since Harry had taken Malfoy's wand at Malfoy Manor, the
mastership of the wand passed to Harry, not Voldemort. Harry also
attempts to save Voldemort who he is calling by his given name, Tom
Riddle, from himself by telling him to feel some remorse. This shocks
Voldemort more than anything Harry has said to him up to this point.
Harry explains all of this to Voldemort, who chooses not to believe
him. Just as the sun breaks the horizon, Voldemort attacks Harry.
When Voldemort strikes Harry with the Killing Curse from the Elder
Wand, opposed byExpelliarmus from Harry, the Killing Curse
rebounds on Voldemort. Harry's theory has been proven correct - the
Elder Wand refused to kill its true master. Voldemort, bereft of all his
Horcruxes, finally dies.

Harry is now master of all three Hallows, but chooses to deliberately

lose the Resurrection Stone and hopes to deactivate the Elder Wand
as well. Dumbledore's portrait applauds his decision.

In the story's epilogue, taking place nineteen years (2017) after the
Battle of Hogwarts, Harry and Ginny are married and have three
children named James Sirius, Albus Severus, and Lily Luna Potter.
Neville Longbottom is the Herbology professor at Hogwarts. Ron and
Hermione are married and have two children named Rose andHugo.
Draco Malfoy is married to a woman who is later disclosed as Astoria
Greengrass and has a boy namedScorpius. He has been spared an
imprisonment in Azkaban.
They all meet at King's Cross, prepared to send their children to
Hogwarts at the beginning of term. Albus secretly confides in Harry of
his fear of being Sorted into Slytherin. Harry tells him that he was
named after two Hogwarts headmasters, one of whom was a
Slytherin and the bravest man he ever knew, as well as, reminding
him that the Hat will also take into account his personal preference
(as it had so many years before when Harry himself was sorted). As
he watches the train pull away, Harry absent-mindedly touches the
scar on his forehead, noting that it had not pained him in nineteen
years. The story closes with the words, "All was well."