Lord Voldemort and his followers plan to ambush Harry Potter when he leaves the protected Dursley home with the Order of the Phoenix for the final time. Voldemort also seeks a new wand to defeat Harry's. As members of the order escort Harry to a safe house, they are attacked en route by Death Eaters. free cell phone ringtones. Harry narrowly escapes, but George Weasley loses an ear, while Hedwig and Mad-Eye Moody are killed.

At the Burrow, Minister for Magic Rufus Scrimgeour arrives to give Harry, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger bequests from Albus Dumbledore's will. Ron receives a Deluminator, and Hermione is left a children's book, The Tales of Beedle the Bard. Harry inherits Godric Gryffindor's Sword and the Snitch he caught in his first-ever Quidditch match, although Scrimgeour withholds the sword. The trio, while puzzled, presume the items will help them in their Horcrux hunt.

At Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour's wedding reception, Kingsley Shacklebolt's Patronus arrives, announcing that Scrimgeour is dead and the Ministry of Magic has fallen under Voldemort's control. As Death Eaters approach, Harry, Ron and Hermione Disapparate, escaping to a Muggle cafe, where they are attacked by more Death Eaters. They take refuge in 12 Grimmauld Place, the former Order of the Phoenix headquarters.

While at Grimmauld Place, Harry deduces that Sirius Black's brother Regulus was the "R.A.B" who removed the Locket Horcrux from the sea cave.[HP6] Hermione recalls seeing a locket amongst house-elf Kreacher's possessions.[HP5] Kreacher admits that he placed the Locket Horcrux in the cave for Voldemort, and Regulus later died retrieving it. The Horcrux has since fallen into Dolores Umbridge's possession via Mundungus Fletcher. The trio successfully infiltrate the Ministry of Magic and recover the locket, but Grimmauld Place is compromised during their escape, forcing them to flee to the countryside.

The trio learn that the Gryffindor Sword confiscated by the Ministry is a fake. They must find the real one to destroy Horcruxes with, but a frustrated Ron leaves the group. Harry and Hermione seek the sword in Godric's Hollow, but they are ambushed by Voldemort and his snake, Nagini. During their retreat, Hermione accidentally breaks Harry's wand with a defensive spell.

In the Forest of Dean, a doe-shaped Patronus leads Harry to an icy pond containing the real Sword. As Harry attempts to retrieve it, the Locket Horcrux tightens around his neck, strangling him. free cell phone ringtones. He is saved by Ron, who was guided back by Dumbledore's Deluminator. Ron destroys the Locket with the sword. He warns that Voldemort's name is now Tabooed: speaking it reveals the speaker's location to bounty hunters, known as Snatchers.

The trio learn from Xenophilius Lovegood, Luna's father, that the cryptic symbol they have repeatedly encountered represents the three Deathly Hallows: the Elder Wand, given to Cadmus Peverell, Resurrection Stone which were given to Antioch Peverell and Invisibility Cloak, given to Ignotus Peverell. When pressed about Luna's absence, Lovegood admits that Death Eaters abducted her in retaliation for supporting Harry in his paper, The Quibbler. Hoping for Luna's return, he has alerted Death Eaters of the trio's whereabouts, but they escape.

Snatchers later capture them when Harry utters Voldemort's tabooed name. Taken to Malfoy Manor, the trio join the imprisoned Luna, Dean, Ollivander and Griphook. Finding Gryffindor's Sword among the trio's possessions, Bellatrix Lestrange fears they have broken into her Gringotts vault, and tortures Hermione for information. totally free ringtones. Dobby Apparates into the cellar and rescues Luna, Dean and Ollivander. The noise prompts Peter Pettigrew to investigate. He throttles Harry, but reminded of his life debt,[HP3] Pettigrew loosens his grip, causing his own silver hand to choke him to death in retribution. Harry and Ron rush upstairs. Ron disarms Bellatrix and Harry takes Draco's wand. Dobby reappears, and they Disapparate to Bill and Fleur Weasley's cottage. Dobby is killed by Bellatrix's knife during the escape.

At the cottage, Ollivander confirms the Elder Wand's existence and says that a wand can transfer allegiance if its owner is defeated or disarmed. Ollivander also utters a caveat: although the Elder Wand is undefeatable, its master is not and must always guard against a surprise attack. Bellatrix's behaviour convinces the trio that another Horcrux is hidden in the Lestrange vault. Aided by Griphook, they penetrate Gringotts' defences and retrieve Hufflepuff's Cup Horcrux, though they lose the sword in the process.

Meanwhile, Voldemort steals the Elder Wand from Dumbledore's tomb, believing it is the only wand that can defeat Harry. Dumbledore captured it after defeating the Dark wizard Grindelwald in a duel. Voldemort also realises that his Horcruxes are being destroyed; his mind link with Harry unintentionally reveals that another Horcrux is hidden at Hogwarts.

In Hogsmeade, Aberforth Dumbledore smuggles the trio into Hogwarts. Harry's return reignites Dumbledore's Army and members prepare to fight. Harry had no intention of leading an all-out revolt against Voldemort; he only planned to find the Horcrux, and leave. But when word is sent that Harry is at Hogwarts, more D.A. and Order of the Phoenix members arrive, and battle is imminent.

Harry alerts the Hogwarts staff to Voldemort's impending invasion, as allies continue arriving. Harry, meanwhile, must find the final Horcrux. Luna Lovegood suggests it could be Ravenclaw's lost diadem. Harry recalls seeing the diadem in the Room of Requirement when he hid his Potions book there.[HP6] Meanwhile, Hermione destroys the Cup Horcrux with a basilisk fang that she and Ron retrieve from the Chamber of Secrets.[HP2] The trio go to the Room of Requirement and are attacked by Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle. Crabbe mishandles the powerful Fiendfyre spell, killing himself and destroying the diadem, but the others escape unharmed.

Harry glimpses Voldemort's mind again and leads the trio to the Shrieking Shack. They witness Voldemort kill Snape with Nagini, believing it will make him the Elder Wand's master. As Snape dies, he gives Harry memories that prove Snape's loyalty to Dumbledore, motivated by his lifelong love for Harry's mother Lily. After being cursed by Gaunt's Ring Horcrux, a doomed Dumbledore had ordered Snape to kill him at a strategic time, sparing Draco from carrying out Voldemort's order to murder him. It was Snape who sent the doe Patronus. The memories also show that Harry himself is a Horcrux; he must die in order to destroy Voldemort.

Resigned to death, Harry approaches Voldemort's camp in the Forbidden Forest. Along the way, he finds the Resurrection Stone inside the Snitch and summons the spirits of his parents, Sirius Black and the recently killed Remus Lupin, who accompany him to Voldemort's camp. Voldemort strikes him with Avada Kedavra.

Awakening in an ethereal place, Harry is unsure whether he is alive or dead. Dumbledore appears and explains that Voldemort's Horcrux within Harry has been destroyed. He says that just as Voldemort cannot die while his soul fragments remain, Voldemort cannot kill Harry because he used Harry's blood in his resurrection.

Harry revives, but feigns death. Voldemort orders Narcissa Malfoy to check Harry. Although she realises that Harry is alive, she declares him dead, hoping it will help her to search for Draco inside the castle. Harry is carried to Hogwarts as Voldemort's trophy by the captured Hagrid. When Neville Longbottom defies Voldemort, the Sorting Hat is thrust aflame onto his head; pulling it off, he withdraws Gryffindor's sword from inside it and beheads Nagini, destroying the final Horcrux. As the battle resumes, many magical folk join in combat against the Death Eaters. Knowing that he is the Elder Wand's true master, Harry confronts Voldemort. When Draco Malfoy disarmed Dumbledore on the Astronomy Tower,[HP6] he unknowingly became the Elder Wand's master; this allegiance was then transferred to Harry when he captured Draco's wand at Malfoy Manor. Voldemort casts another Killing Curse at Harry, but the wand refuses to attack its master and the spell rebounds on Voldemort, killing him.

Among the casualties are Fred Weasley, Remus Lupin, Nymphadora Tonks, Colin Creevey and Bellatrix Lestrange. After the battle, Harry tells Dumbledore's portrait that he is keeping the Invisibility Cloak, but the Resurrection Stone will remain lost in the forest. The Elder Wand shall be returned to Dumbledore's tomb, where its power will be extinguished if Harry dies undefeated. Dumbledore approves. Before returning the Elder Wand to the tomb, Harry uses it to repair his own wand.

Nineteen years later, Harry and Ginny Weasley are married and have three children: James, Albus Severus and Lily. Ron has married Hermione and they have two children, Rose and Hugo. The families meet at King's Cross station, where a nervous Albus is departing for his first year at Hogwarts. Harry's nineteen-year-old godson, Teddy Lupin (Remus and Tonks's orphaned son), is found kissing Victoire Weasley (Bill and Fleur's daughter) in a train compartment. Teddy is a frequent visitor to the Potters, coming to dinner several times a week. Harry sees Draco Malfoy and his unnamed wife with their son, Scorpius; Malfoy acknowledges Harry with a curt nod, then turns away. Neville Longbottom is now the Hogwarts Herbology professor and is still close friends with Harry. Harry comforts Albus, who is worried he will be sorted into Slytherin. He tells his son that one of his two namesakes, Severus Snape, was a Slytherin and the bravest man he had ever met. He adds that the Sorting Hat takes one's own choice into account. The book concludes: "The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well."

The Baltimore Sun's critic, Mary Carole McCauley's, praised the entire Harry Potter series as "a classic bildungsroman, or coming-of-age tale." She noted that "[b]ook seven... lacks much of the charm and humor that distinguished the earlier novels. Even the writing is more prosaic", but then observed that given the book's darker subject matter, "[h]ow could it be otherwise?"

Reviewer Alice Fordham from The Times writes that "Rowling's genius is not just her total realisation of a fantasy world, but the quieter skill of creating characters that bounce off the page, real and flawed and brave and lovable." Fordham concludes, "We have been a long way together, and neither [Rowling] nor Harry let us down in the end."

By contrast, Jenny Sawyer of the Christian Science Monitor says that while "There is much to love about the Harry Potter series, from its brilliantly realized magical world to its multilayered narrative," however, "A story is about someone who changes. And, puberty aside, Harry doesn't change much. As envisioned by Rowling, he walks the path of good so unwaveringly that his final victory over Voldemort feels, not just inevitable, but hollow."

Stephen King criticised the reactions of some reviewers to the books, including McCauley, for jumping too quickly to surface conclusions of the work. He felt this was inevitable, because of the extreme secrecy before launch which did not allow reviewers time to read and consider the book, but meant that many early reviews lacked depth. Rather than finding the writing style disappointing he felt it had matured and improved. He acknowledged that the subject matter of the books had become more adult, and that Rowling had clearly been writing with the adult audience firmly in mind since the middle of the series. He compared the works in this respect to Huckleberry Finn and Alice in Wonderland which also achieved success and have become established classics, in part by appealing to the adult audience as well as children.

Speed-reading world champion Anne Jones read the book's 199, 900 words in 47 minutes and 1 second. She said, "Without being too critical, the plot does seem to be a bit complicated, but I would not change a word. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows is a real page-turner.