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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

29 reviews

hematthews's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Hate crime, Violence, Kidnapping, Murder, War

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Torture, Abandonment

sgollogly's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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A fitting end for and iconic series: heavy on character deaths however. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Torture, Kidnapping, Grief, War, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Murder, Abandonment

lineywriter17's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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love the ending!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, War

karlin0336's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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The reread is complete.  These books were even better when reading them as an adult.  Deathly Hallows is an amazing ending to this series, full of plot twists and emotional moments and action. 

There are parts of this book I will never recover from.  So many good characters died (Hedwig, Mad-Eye, Fred, Lupin, Tonks, Snape, etc.)  The chapter with Snape's memories is especially heartbreaking.

My final ranking for this series is as follows:
7. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
6. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
5. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
4. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Violence, Murder, War

Moderate: Animal death, Racism, Grief

Minor: Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Racial slurs, Slavery, Suicide, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Classism

cadybooks's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body shaming, Confinement, Death, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Vomit, Police brutality

Minor: Animal cruelty, Cursing, Hate crime, Classism

paulabekkerus's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Genocide, Physical abuse, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail

kim_lommaert's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional funny sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Hate crime, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

sparksofkell's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Toxic friendship

thatchickengirl23's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Genocide, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury

unicorngirl's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows finds Harry and the Golden trio struggling to find the Horcruxes while learning more about Dumbledore and the Deathly Hallows. I thought it was one if not the best Harry Potter book in the series. But there were some things that I didn't like or was confused about. 
First, why did Hermione lash out at Ron like that when he returned? I know she is angry, but that seemed a little excessive. 
Next, I was wondering why the character changes with Lupin.

He was embarrassed that he and Tonks were going to have a baby that was possibly going to be a werewolf, because Tonk's family doesn't really like werewolves, so instead of being there for Tonks, he decides he is going to run away with a bunch of seventeen-year-olds!!

Gladly he had a character change and he became more loyal.

Also, Tonks' and Lupin's death were unnecessary and didn't add anything to the story, we just had to accept that they were dead.

 
Speaking of character changes, why did she make Dumbledore more of an anti-hero? Was it that J.K. Rowling wanted him to be a hero, but didn't want him to be a hero, so instead, make him an anti-hero? I feel like she wrote Snape like that. It felt like she didn't want us to like him, and then, oh, he redeemed himself in the last book because

we get to see his memories after he dies,

after making him an unlikeable character for 6 whole books. I don't know if it's me, but this stuff is kind of icky to me.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, War