Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

2007 • 784 pages

Ratings2,866

Average rating4.4

15

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.