At Malfoy Manor, Snape tells Voldemort of the date Harry’s friends plan to move him from the house on Privet Drive to a new safe location, so that Voldemort can capture Harry along the way.
As Harry packs up to leave Privet Drive, he reads two obituaries of Dumbledore, both of which make him think he didn’t know Dumbledore as well as he should. Below, she bids the Dursleys farewell one last time, as the threat of Voldemort forces them into hiding.
the order of the phoenix, led by alastor “mad eye” moody, arrives to take harry to his new home in the weasley house, the burrow. Six of Harry’s friends take Polyjuice Potion to disguise themselves as Harry and act as decoys, and they all fly off in different directions. The Death Eaters, alerted to their departure by Snape, attack Harry and his friends. Voldemort chases after Harry, but Harry’s wand fends off Voldemort, apparently without Harry’s help.
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Harry arrives at the Burrow, and when his friends arrive, he learns that Moody has been killed and George Weasley maimed in the chase. Harry begins to have visions in which he sees what Voldemort is doing through Voldemort’s eyes, and witnesses Voldemort questioning a wandmaker, trying to figure out how to defeat Harry.
Harry, Ron and Hermione gather the necessary books and tools to embark on the quest left to them by Dumbledore: find and destroy the Horcruxes in which Voldemort placed fragments of his soul, making himself immortal as long as the objects survive. Rufus Scrimgeour, the Minister for Magic, hands them the items that Dumbledore left them in his will. Harry is left with the Snitch that he caught in his first Quidditch match, as well as the Sword of Gryffindor, which Scrimgeour does not give him, claiming that it did not belong to Dumbledore. Ron is left with a device called a deluminator that turns off lights, and Hermione is left with a book of wizard fairy tales. none of them have any idea what the elements mean.
the weasleys organize the wedding of their son bill with fleur delacour. At the reception, Harry listens to Ron’s aunt Muriel tell terrible rumors about Dumbledore: that his sister was a squib (a non-magical person born to wizard parents) that her family kept prisoner, and that Dumbledore had dabbled in the arts. dark when I was young. men. The wedding is interrupted by Death Eaters, as Voldemort has taken over the Ministry of Magic and is now in charge of the wizarding world.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione disappear (i.e. teleport) onto a busy London street, where they are soon attacked by Death Eaters. They find a safe haven in the haunted house Sirius Black left for Harry, Number Twelve Grimmauld Place. there they discover the meaning of the letters r.a.b. in the previous book, harry potter and the half blood prince, harry and dumbledore had undergone tests to find a locket that voldemort had turned into a horcrux, but in the end they discovered that the locket had been stolen, with a false locket and a note, signed r.a.b. Now, they see that the initials belong to Sirius’ dead younger brother, Regulus Arcturus Black, who had been one of Voldemort’s followers. they remember that they have seen a locket in the house that is no longer there.
Harry and his friends summon Kreacher, the house elf that came with the house. Kreacher explains that Voldemort had used it to test the magical defenses guarding the locket, having borrowed it from Regulus. Later, Regulus changed his mind about serving Voldemort, and Kreacher had helped him steal the locket and leave the fake one in its place. The royal locket had been in Kreacher’s possession for many years, but was recently stolen by Mundungus Fletcher. Harry orders Kreacher to find Mundungus and bring him back.
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Kreacher later returns to Mundungus, who reveals that the locket was taken from him by Dolores Umbridge, a high-ranking official in the Ministry of Magic. Ron, Harry and Hermione disguise themselves as Ministry employees and sneak into the Ministry, stealing Umbridge’s locket and witnessing the Ministry’s efforts to persecute wizards who don’t come from pure-blood wizarding families.
while disappearing back to the house in grimmauld place, hermione accidentally leads one of the death eaters into the protective enchantments, forcing them to leave the house and flee, moving from place to place and camping in the forest. they don’t know where to look for the next horcrux and they don’t know how to destroy the locket, which is protected by powerful magic. Harry has a vision of Voldemort tracking down another famous wandmaker and looking for a young man who stole a wand.
One night in the woods, Harry and his friends overhear a goblin say that the Gryffindor sword that had been in the Hogwarts headmaster’s office is fake. Harry realizes that the true sword of Gryffindor has the power to destroy horcruxes and that they need to find it. Ron, frustrated at his lack of progress, gets fed up and leaves Harry and Hermione.
Harry and Hermione go to Godric’s Hollow, where they visit the graves of Harry’s parents and see the house where he lived before Voldemort killed them. An old woman named Bathilda Bagshot takes them to her house and they follow her, hoping that she will meet Dumbledore and can give them the sword, but she turns out to be dead, her body inhabited by Voldemort’s snake, Nagini. . They barely escape and Harry’s wand is destroyed in the fight.
Harry reads the new (and malicious) biography of Dumbledore, which claims that Dumbledore helped the dark wizard Grindelwald when he was young and may have been responsible for his own sister’s death. Harry recognizes in a photograph of the book the young man Voldemort is looking for, and it is Grindelwald.
One night, while Harry is on guard duty, a silver stag Patronus appears and leads him to Gryffindor’s sword, buried under ice in a pond. Harry dives in and the horcrux medallion around his neck tries to strangle him. Ron, who has returned, saves Harry, retrieves the sword, and destroys the locket.
Harry, Ron and Hermione are going to visit Xenophilius Lovegood, because Hermione discovered a strange symbol in the book that Dumbledore left her, and they had seen Xenophilius using it. Xenophilius explains that the symbol represents the Deathly Hallows, three objects (the Elder Wand, the Resurrection Stone, and the Cloak of Invisibility) that were created by death and that give the owner of the three objects dominion over death. .
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xenophilius betrays them to the death eaters, hoping to free his daughter luna, whom the ministry has imprisoned, and they narrowly escape home. Harry is tempted to chase after the Hallows and give up his hunt for the Horcruxes. Harry accidentally says Voldemort’s name, which triggers a tracking spell, and Voldemort’s followers catch them and take them to Malfoy Manor.
At Malfoy Manor, Bellatrix Lestrange tortures Hermione for information on where they got the sword they’re carrying, as she thought it was in her vault at Gringotts Bank. she is very worried about anything else they may have taken. Dobby, the former Malfoy house-elf, helps Harry and his friends escape, along with Ollivander the wandmaker, Luna Lovegood and Griphook the goblin. Harry takes them all to the country house of Ron’s brother Bill.
Harry guesses that Voldemort has a Horcrux stored in Bellatrix’s vault, as she seemed very worried about it, and convinces the goblin’s griphook to help him get into the vault. With the help of Griphook, Harry, Ron, and Hermione break in and steal Hufflepuff’s mug from the vault, then escape on the back of a dragon.
Harry learns from a vision from Voldemort that the final Horcrux is at Hogwarts, so they travel to the nearby town of Hogsmeade. There they meet Aberforth, Dumbledore’s brother, who helps them into Hogwarts through a painting summoning Neville Longbottom, who has been hosting meetings of Dumbledore’s Army in the Hidden Room of Requirement. Harry asks the members of the D.A., who are all his supporters, if they can think of an important item associated with the school, in the hope that such an item might be the final Horcrux. the ravenclaw students tell him about the lost ravenclaw diadem.
As Harry searches for the diadem, the Hogwarts teachers and students rally to his defense, having been warned that Voldemort is on his way. Voldemort and his followers attack the school in a huge battle, and Harry finds and destroys the horcrux diadem.
Harry witnesses Voldemort murder Snape to take possession of Dumbledore’s powerful wand (Since Snape killed Dumbledore, Snape is presumed to be the true master of the wand until someone kills him). Before dying, Snape gives Harry the memories of him, extracted to see them in the Pensieve.
Harry goes to the pensieve in the headmaster’s office and sees the most important moments in snape’s life. He learns that he has been completely wrong about Snape, who loved Harry’s mother, Lily Potter, all her life. Snape had spent her entire adult life spying on Voldemort for Dumbledore and working to protect Harry.
from one of snape’s conversations with dumbledore, harry learns that there is a piece of voldemort’s soul within him (in fact, harry is the final horcrux), and that he will have to let voldemort kill him before that voldemort can die. he goes into the woods and lets voldemort kill him, then wakes up in a dreamlike version of king’s cross train station, where dumbledore meets him and tells him that he’s not dead, and that the protective charm lily potter gave him put harry stays. i live inside voldemort, because voldemort used harry’s blood to reconstitute himself. so voldemort couldn’t kill harry, and now harry can come back and finish him off.
Voldemort takes Harry, whom he believes to be dead, back to Hogwarts to demand his surrender. The students and teachers challenge Voldemort, and Neville uses the Sword of Gryffindor to slay the giant serpent, Nagini, which was the last Horcrux to keep Voldemort invulnerable. A final battle breaks out, and Harry reveals that he is still alive, killing Voldemort in a duel.
In an epilogue set nineteen years later, Harry is married to Ginny and sends their children to Hogwarts. Ron and Hermione are married and their families are thriving.
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