Book Club~ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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Harry is waiting in Privet Drive. The Order of the Phoenix is coming to escort him safely away without Voldemort and his supporters knowing- if they can. But what will Harry do then? How can he fulfill the momentous and seemingly impossible task that Professor Dumbledore has left him?

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The plot thickens as the Harry Potter series finally draws to a close.

What do you think of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows?

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Well done!

I think it's bloody brilliant. I know people say Harry Potter is often for kids and the like but theyre not usually people whove read it. I have read from the first book word for word through them all. I have grown up as a fan of Harry Potter and, as weird as it sounds, a kid who had no child hood completely made mine. I dont care who thinks its sad, I was genuinely heart broken when Id finished reading the Deathly Hallows. What an author JK Rowling is. If you understand these books like me youd agree with my thought that where this just came out of her head on a train journey, I believed this world really would have existed in a previous time. The way everything is so crystal clear and well tied in with the real world, it always makes me think twice. Maybe because it's based in England where I live, but to me it's real.

Genuinely the best books I have read in my entire life time, and at the age of 22, nearly 23, if anyone asks if I like them then why would I lie. These stories dont hold back at all; there is love, violence, loss of loved ones and magic. Nothing is fairy tale-esque just for kids, they are told how it is. I used to go with my Grandad and my Nanna to a local pub on weekend evenings during summer holidays, sit out in the beer garden, with the book, and people would ask them how on earth they kept me so quiet and entertained.

All they did was point at the book and they knew... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (and all the other books for that matter) made my childhood, and millions of other kids. My kids will have the opportunity to read all the books, and I bet theyll love them just as much as me.

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The most prominent scene, for me, is towards the beginning of the book when they're all stood in Harry's house taking the Polyjuice potion in order to impersonate him. It was so sad when Mad Eye and Hedwig died during the battle though, and I had to keep it a secret from my Mum before she read it! I remember I was reading the book whilst over in Florida, and I honestly found it so difficult to put the book down... I was reading it in the car and everything. I particularly remember reading the part where they're in Bellatrix' vault... I could picture it so clearly, and then the film confirmed that image when it was eventually released. I read that part in the car, if I remember rightly!

I absolutely love the book to bits, how the hell she made all this up out of her mind is beyond me, Especially quidditch. I'm still waiting to see this arrive on habbo. Im just amazed at how the book ended and how everything just fell into place, if supercalifragilisticexpealidocious was a real word it would be that.

i think the book will deffinatly go down in history (along with 50 shades :P) but in all seriousness HARRY AND GINNY WOO And finally ron and hermoine. With what theyve been through youd think it would never work. Just imagine little maybe malfoys, crab and goyles. LOL

Whenever I've read a Harry Potter book, or seem the films, I always spare a moment to think about how life-like it all seems. I know it sounds ridiculous to any rational human being, but I can't help but think it would be absolutely AMAZING to live in that kind of world. I know it doesn't exist, but I like to think it does... and then it's a bit of an anti-climax when I remember I will never be able to live in such a way. Just imagine whipping out your wand and casting a spell... or having Hagrid live down the road with a pet dragon. It would just be fantastic, and it's mind-boggling to think that the whole arena came out of just one author's head. Rowling is clearly a genius.

Personally I feel this is the best book of the series, which always seem so cliché just because it's the last book of the series, but everything just comes together brilliantly - which only PS really had, since it was the very first book.

Hedwig's death really sets the scene for the rest of the book, and I honestly didn't expect so many deaths. When I first read it, I had a list with all the characters that had died, and the list kept growing and growing, and when Harry finally died (Something that I was hoping for whilst reading the last book), I scrawled 'HARRY' in big letters at the bottom of my page, as if it didn't matter who else died.

Of course, the next chapter said 'Harry woke up...' and I crossed his name out and read the last two chapters.

I can't really comprehend the shock of the whole Snape/Lily plot and the 'Harry is a Horcrux and Dumbledore knew all along', just the whole book was fantastic.

Harry Potter is by far the best book series I've read, and I honestly can't wait to have children just so I can read it to them, to watch them feel the same things I did when I read the books for the very first time.

I do wonder if Rowling had the whole plot in mind when she wrote the first book, or whether she made some of it up as she went along.

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I do wonder if Rowling had the whole plot in mind when she wrote the first book, or whether she made some of it up as she went along.

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The last chapter of Deathly Hallows was one of the first pieces she wrote. She knew the main plot of the story all along. I'm sure all the little bits that didn't matter, such as Rita Skeeter for example, came along in time :)

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Originally Posted by Mathew

I do wonder if Rowling had the whole plot in mind when she wrote the first book, or whether she made some of it up as she went along.

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She (allegedly) wrote the epilogue first but she has admitted to changing some of the small details (for example, Mr Weasley was supposed to die).

I love the Harry Potter series. The last book is my 2nd favourite just behind Order of the Phoenix which just ticks all my "power-hungry governments trying to take over" boxes. I still get chills reading the "The Ministry has fallen. Scrimgeour is dead. They are coming" line. It was definitely a WTF moment.

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She (allegedly) wrote the epilogue first but she has admitted to changing some of the small details (for example, Mr Weasley was supposed to die).

I love the Harry Potter series. The last book is my 2nd favourite just behind Order of the Phoenix which just ticks all my "power-hungry governments trying to take over" boxes. I still get chills reading the "The Ministry has fallen. Scrimgeour is dead. They are coming" line. It was definitely a WTF moment.

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She changed Mr. Weasley's death during Book 5 - he was supposed to die when he was attacked by Nagini, but considering he was the only well-established father left in the series, she kept him, and killed off Lupin and Tonks in 7 instead. Of course she would have edited things throughout the books as she went along :)

And it was the last chapter, not the epilogue:

"She has said that the last chapter of the book was written "in something like 1990", as part of her earliest work on the series"

Oh I'm sure she said she wrote the epilogue really early because she had the word "scar" as the last word from the very beginning until she changed it.

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Oh I'm sure she said she wrote the epilogue really early because she had the word "scar" as the last word from the very beginning until she changed it.

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Wasn't early at all, she announced that about a year or so before the book was released as far as I know.

My bad, she announced a year or so before that it was no longer scar.

Scar being the last word goes back to 2003 at least, which is early, but not as early as 1990 for Chapter 36 :)

Interesting stuff. Any other hidden secrets like this?

Do you think students will one day study the Harry Potter books... perhaps for an exam?

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Interesting stuff. Any other hidden secrets like this?

Do you think students will one day study the Harry Potter books... perhaps for an exam?

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A-Level English literature and language already studies PS.

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Interesting stuff. Any other hidden secrets like this?

Do you think students will one day study the Harry Potter books... perhaps for an exam?

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http://www.mugglenet.com/academia/classes.shtml

Not quite as popular here although I remember the debate when Durham University announced a module about Harry Potter for their Education Studies course (and when it was added to A level english as Kardan said). I've also done a few essays here and there but that was by choice (Harry Potter as a Jesus figure using the last film and an analysis of Umbridge's educational ideology) and not taught.

I think the series should be introduced in schools for exams to be studied, for one because it will draw in the attention of the students more, and secondly because it's so well written it'd be more worthwhile

I think that the book is F.A.N.T.A.S.T.I.C. personally, the only thing that I can think of as a negative is that it dragged on a bit. The end scenes are just amazing though, in both the book and the film.

Remember to vote for next weeks discussion book as well guys!

The Harry Potter series are some of the best books I've ever read by far. I remember being so disappointed when I didn't receive a letter to Hogwarts on my 11th birthday :(

Yeah anyway, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince is my favourite 'cause I love the parts where Harry gets so good at Potions 'cause of the Half Blood Prince's book. All the books are fab though, I certainly couldn't choose a least favourite!

J.K Rowling was actually planning to kill off George when they were trying to get to the Safe House at the start of book 7, but then decided it would be more "interesting" (wrong word, but I couldn't think of a better one) to have Fred die in front of Percy's eyes :'( so he only lost an ear ;)

I seriously love this series to like infinity and beyond I am an utter potter nerd but never became a true incredipotterhead until I watched AVPM (a very potter musical, watch it it's amazing) but this is about DH so I must admit it was the greatest ending. Normally these types of series the sequels are never as good as the first but Deathly Hallows is my second favourite behind Order of the Phoenix I think because in DH they didn't actually go to Hogwarts as students it didn't feel right I don't know but it's still amazing. Loads of people are wanting her to continue and do like an extra one about the children but in my opinion even though i'd love another book I like how she ended it and cut it off for our imaginations to break free and write many a crappy fanfic.

I do love how in depth her writing is though, all the minor details are thought out and even the very minor characters are given deaths of a hero. I think the details about the seven theme (seven being the most powerful magical number) throughout the entire series is amazingly thought out, how everything comes back to seven whether it be seven Weasley children, seven letters in H. Potter and even seven people exiting the shrieking shack. I saw it on Tumblr but it's so bloody interesting reading them all! (http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Seven)

Wasn't in like rough drafts she was going to kill of Ron as well? Poor Weasley family :(