Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Ratings2,891
Average rating4.4
I avoided listening to the final epilogue for so long - just because I didn't want it to end. The journey, accompanied by the magical voice of Stephen Fry, was nothing short of beautiful. Farewell, Harry Potter. We shall meet again in future.
Ugh. You can tell JKR was ready to be done with Harry Potter. This book is a rush job full of plot holes, extraordinary coincidences and meaningless beats. There are lots of interesting ideas here that get no time to breathe because there are FOUR HORCRUXES that need to be found and destroyed as well as a sword as well as THREE DEATHLY HALLOWS which don't make a damn lick of sense. Also make sure you break into Gringotts and have a giant battle at Hogwarts!
Like there is genuinely cool stuff here but the whole thing is go go go, so much so that I think JKR also forgot to think about it. Somehow the super wand belongs to Harry, because... he... disarmed Draco while Draco had a different wand??? And then he uses the super wand to repair his old wand and says “this thing is TOO DANGEROUS” even though it does literally nothing in the book except repair his old wand.
And then there's this super perfect invisibility cloak that nobody can see through, except Dumbledore does in book 1, and then Mad eye does in book 4, and the dementors can get past it and for fucks sake did JKR think about this whatsoever?
Eh. 2/5.
This was one of the few books I've ever purchased, let alone pre-ordered. I will always have fond memories of it.
Viendo las reseñas del resto de la gente, solo veo 5 estrellas.
A la gente le gusta leer 300 paginas de protagonistas que no tienen nada que hacer. Que no tienen ni idea de hacia donde ir y que repiten el mismo argumento de forma circular sin llegar a ningun sitio.
Hasta que algo externo les ayuda.
Es una pena que esta autora parece no tener dinero para pagar a un buen editor.
La batalla final deberia ser mucho mucho mucho mas épica.Por ejemplo hay un momento en el que Neville mata a la serpiente, esto deberia haber sido un gran momento para Neville y para la saga.Pero ocurre en un párrafo siguiendo a "y entonces muchas cosas ocurrieron a la vez"Harry se hace invisible, Hadrid le busca, los gigantes empiezan a pegarse, y ah, si el chaval este Neville mata a la serpiente.Vaya forma de quitarle el momento al chaval.
Dobre zakończenie według mnie. Nic się nie dłużyło. Jedyny minus to cały reveal Snapea. Niezbyt mu wybaczyłem.
Cała seria ogólnie była bardzo spoko, ale pewnie bardziej by mi się podobała jakbym ją przeczytał jakoś w gimnajzum.
I decided to read this franchise on a whim. I started when I was 18 and now I am going on 20. I can truly understand why this series is held so closely to peoples hearts. The characters are enjoyable and the story line never bored me.
Everything about this book was near perfect. I do have a few complaints.
1. I wish Severus Snape didn't die. His death felt unneeded and overall made me really sad, especially when learning all he did for Harry.
2. I wish Dumbledore had been a better character. Dumbledore was always that character that you could trust on saving the day, I understood Harry couldn't have been told every detail but I feel like he withheld far too much for far too long.
Awesome awesome book. This book has so much depth to it - and still children could relate to it so well. There is “zero” vulgarity, no stretching the chapters, no idealisation of perfection, no preaching, no glorification of self-pity, no sympathy for the morally and mentally weak and most importantly, no justification of evil. The messages are of love, kindness, goodness, courage, grit, care, sincerity, friendship - all that's good in the world. The King's Cross chapter is pure gold. And so is the climax fight scene at Hogwarts. Love how everything ties in so well together. A most wonderful ending to a most wonderful story.
A perfect closing to a perfect series... so much nostalgia, and so many emotions. It's like going home to your comfort space
Harry Potter and the hunt for the 10 Mcguffins.
Once again we get a cool world, with an okay story ruined by an annoying and useless main character.
The story on this book wasn't the best of harry potter, but also not the worst (I'm looking at you order of the Phoenix...). The story beats on them selves where repetitive and boring. All events on this book can be summarized by:
1. We got an idea of where we can get information and or magical Mcguffin
2. Lets plan an over complicated plan to get there which most certainly won't fail...
3. Get the information and or object
4. Something goes wrong and we are under attack
5. Somehow a group of 3 teenagers escape a group of highly competent wizards. Hooray!!!
This exact procedure is repeated at least 5 times, that I can remember from the top of my head. And it got really boring really fast. Somehow these 3 kids that haven't even finished their wizard education are invincible. They can get away from fights where they are clearly outnumbered and out skilled, but with the power of plot convenience they escape with at most a bruise.
Like in the sixth entry of this book I was mostly interested in the subplot concerning Riddle's and Dumbledore's backstory. And I must admit that the flashback with Snape was kinda cool, but that still was greatly overshadowed by the most annoying main character ever (The rant about Harry Potter will continue in the next section).
The part that got me the most confused was the sudden appearance and importance of the Deathly hallows. Was it setup in any way before, which I din't notice or did they really come out of nowhere. Because if it is the latter, it felt really cheap. We already where on the hunt for 7 magical Mcguffins (the horocrux) why do we need 3 extra new artifacts to look for? And how did they help?
I guess that the cloak has helped for the whole book series, but the other 2?
The Stone was basically a fan service moment, let's bring back everybody that Harry has died to protect this incompetent child for a big “you can do it” moment. Guy's Harry is so egocentric he doesn't need your support, from the moment he was proposed to sacrifice himself as a martyr or magical Jesus he didn't even hesitate.
And the elder Wand was basically used as a cheap way to keep harry alive. The final “Duel” (if you can even call it a duel) between Harry and Voldemort is a “well actually” this is how I think wands work and through shear luck that wand can't hurt me, bruh. If you want to survive an unbeatable wand don't tell that bullshit, just don't invent an unbeatable wand... I like how the system where wands chose the wizard and a wand of another wizard will only obey the new master if that wand was “won” by the new one (I put won in quotation marks because I don't know if the Draco Harry wand swap could be considered as winning a duel). But then they get overly complicated, where Snape didn't actually win the wand because it was arranged (If you ask me if you kill somebody you technically beat them even though it was arranged), therefore Draco won it, although he did not throw any spell on Dumbledore, and since Harry stole Draco's wand (the regular one...) the elder wand should be Harry's. Dunno man I think you are stretching the wand mechanics a bit, and with a bit I mean a lot.
Like I said I don't understand the existence of the Deathly Hallows, they generate more problems than solutions. This whole “well actually” moment ruined my enjoyment of the conclusion of the series, it felt cheap ngl.
Now let's talk about Harry role in the whole book series. Did harry actually do something useful at any moment? He can play quidich really good, to bad there where no brooms in the final battle.
He got carried by more skilled and intelligent wizards throughout the series, but he still gets all the praise. He is also the most egocentric and annoying main character I've read to this date. From the 5th book on I really wanted to punch him in the face each time he opened his mouth, it was horrible. He thinks that he is always right and that everybody else is dumb, even though he has been wrong several times in the past. But once in a while he gets it right and rides on that high through the next several errors. For example the whole mind connection with Voldemort has been a problem more times that it has helped.
Concerning Harry's ego, I liked the presence of Hermione as the voice of rationality, because she said to Harry the obvious things that every reader was thinking at that moment. But Harry knows better than to listen to the best student in Hogwarts, she doesn't anything about magic... At the end of the day he is the chosen one, he is the best wizard in the world. EXPECTRO PATRONUM.
The only time he listens to advice is when Dumbledore tells him that hes gotta commit suicide and he, as the egocentric ass he is, doesn't even hesitate. It is his opportunity to live on as the great wizard he never was, and he just has to stand there let himself be killed. But because he can not die he is actually a horocrux and Voldemort only killed the part of his soul that was from Voldemort. Don't get me wrong I like the idea of Harry being a Horocrux it has a lot of symbolism and it explains a lot, but why is harry the only horocrux that isn't destroyed in the process of removing Voldemort soul? They truly did destroy a bunch of valuable historical artifacts of unthinkable worth, but they did spare the boy? Something doesn't fit here. I would have loved for the book to end with the conversation with Dumbledore in heaven and then the same epilogue without harry, maybe Hermiones and Rons son is called Harry and is going to Hogwarts ore some fan service bullshit like that. Maybe even a final chapter where Nevil defeats the very debilitated Voldemort with Griffindors sword. By the way, how did the sword get to Hogwarts, didn't the lose it in the bank robbery?
It would have so much satisfying. You don't have to mess with the mechanics from the elder wand and you don't have to bring harry back from the dead.
Speaking of Nevil he is the Character with the biggest glow up and Luna is the most underrated character.
Now lets talk about Harry ethics, everybody thinks he is the best one and an angel. He even get praised by Dumbledore for not being fooled by his own power like he did. Excuse me... we are talking of the boy that once he knew of the existence of the stone that brings back people from the dead wanted to drop the whole horocrux hunt to get his parents back. We are also talking about the kid that once his expecro patronum stooped being effective started using dark magic spells. This kid should be locked up in azcaban.
I do not understand the hype concerning these books and their characters. At the begging it was nice, but it has such a face plant of an ending, that probably ruined the whole series for me. At least it gave me a bad mouth taste to end with.
I guess that its success rides on nostalgia of people reading it as a child and I've read it as a 20 year old so I won't get it... And I trully don't get it.
“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.” ⚡️
Still love this series with all my heart. Since I had only watched the movies before, I felt like I missed a lot of background information about certain characters. But now this has cleared up, luckily! Stephen Fry, the narrator, also made the whole experience of listening a lot more enjoyable.
Epic ending to the series filled with heartbreaking losses and delightful triumphs. I do miss the wondrous and exploring aspects of the first few books, but the Deathly Hallows answers all of the unfinished questions in a perfect way
The series finale is icing on the cake. Getting to watch the trio on their hunt around England and reading the portrayal of the wizarding world at war make it one of the most inventive of the books. Plus, JK Rowling treats the climax with all the respect a protagonist like Harry deserves.
Age range: 13+
The violence and emotional toll of this book is higher than any of the others, but still appropriate for young readers.
Harry tak nějak dospěl, a vlastně se extrémně mentálně posunul a to tak, že jsem mu to nějak nevěřil. Ale návraty na stará známá místa, Krátura a Dobby...
Rating: 4.5/5
Rounded up to 5 stars
I mean, what can I really say here?
Harry Potter is nostalgic and a classic. It's familiar pages welcome me back every time I have tried to get back into reading. While not perfect, the seventh Harry Potter novel is the culmination of everything before it. I don't love the sudden shift to the Hallows or the epilogue, however, they're fine. They work. I think this read through more than any other I noticed the parallels between Dumbledore and Voldemort. I love the Battle of Hogwarts.
Is this the best book ever? No, it's not. However, Harry Potter holds a special place in both my heart and as a cultural moment in history. It is, at its heart, a children's fantasy novel that speaks to many people on different levels, and I think that is where its power and popularity really comes from.
“Claro que está pasando dentro de tu cabeza, Harry, pero ¿por qué iba a significar eso que no es real?”
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[Relectura]
El final de una increíble saga, y que sin dudas me cambió la vida.
Creo que le da un cierra perfecto y queda todo explicado de una forma donde se comprende perfectamente.
Si es verdad que por momentos se puede volver medio lento/pesado (sobre todo la parte donde van en busca de los horrocruxes) pero vale totalmente la pena.
A pesar de que es una historia llena de magia y fantasia, es alucinante la forma en la que de cierta manera te podes llegar a identificar tanto con momentos como con personajes.
No importa la cantidad de veces que lo lea, SIEMPRE descubro y aprendo cosas nuevas.
La forma en la que me hace pasar de una emoción a otra en cuestión de segundos es increíble.
HARRY POTTER TE AMO POR SIEMPRE