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

I finally finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling, and it did not disappoint. I will be blogging more about Harry's story as it applies to multicultural children's lit at Shen's Blog.

SPOILER WARNINGS - If you have not finished Harry Potter Bk 7 and hate spoilers, please don't read on.

My pre-reading predictions were: Trust Snape (b/c Dumbledore trusted him, and Snape loved Harry's mom). Voldemort dies (b/c if he does not the series would totally suck). Harry dies (it's the last book, afterall, and anything goes).

But in the end there was lots of interesting stories and lots of action with a surprisingly high body count. We get an insight into Dumbledore's not-so-pristine past and Snape's back story. Harry, Ron and Hermoine are all tested individually and as a trio and proven worthy as heroes.

EJ's Chapter by Chapter Haiku Highlights of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

Chapter 1 - The Dark Lord Ascending

Snape tells Voldemort
Order's plan to move Harry.
Snake eats Charity.

Chapter 2 - In Memoriam

Harry reads papers,
finds he never thought before--
a young Dumbledore.

Chapter 3 - The Dursleys Departing

Petunia's crying.
Dudley "doesn't think [Harry's]
a waste of space." = Love.

Chapter 4 - The Seven Potters

Ron, Hermoine,
Fred, George, Fleur, Mundungus drink
Harry's hair. Hedwig!!

From his motorbike,
Hagrid leaps. Voldemort swoops.
Smashes into pond.

Chapter 4 - The Fallen Warrior

Hagrid's okay, George
lost an ear. Voldemort flies.
Good-bye brave Mad-Eye.

Chapter 6 - The Ghoul in Pajamas

Trio discusses
how to destroy Horcruxes
containing soul bits.

Chapter 7 - The Will of Albus Dumbledore

On Harry's birthday,
he gets an old watch, a book,
tricks, and Ginny's kiss!

Why would Dumbledore
name the trio in his will?
What's special about:

Deluminator,
The Tales of Beedle the Bard,
Harry's first Snitch? Hm.

Dumbledore's will gave
Harry the sword of Godric
Gryffindor, also.

Harry kisses Snitch,
which reveals the riddle: "I
open at the close."

Chapter 8 - The Wedding

As "Cousin Barney,"
Harry attends Fleur and Bill's
wedding. Luna knows.

Viktor is there, too.
Hermoine squeals. Fun scene.
Ron acting jealous.

Is the wand maker
Gregorovitch more skilled than
old Ollivander?

Doge and Muriel
debate whether Dumbledore's
sister was a Squib?

Lynx patronus speaks
"The Ministry has fallen...
They are coming." Yikes!

Chapter 9 - A Place to Hide

In wedding chaos,
Hermoine was prepared--
clothes, money, the Cloak.

But Death Eaters find
trio in the Muggle world.
Go to Grimmauld Place.

Chapter 10 - Kreacher's Tale

First time Harry sees
Sirius' room, he finds
his mother's letter.

Last page missing. Torn
photo. "She had made her "g"s
the same way he did."

R.A.B. revealed:
Regulus Arcturus Black,
Sirius' bro!

Search for gold locket.
Kreacher says Mundungus stole.
Kreacher shared his creed:

"The house-elf's highest
law is his Master's bidding."
But Kreacher loved, too.

Harry gives Kreacher
R.A.B.'s false gold locket.
Kreacher cries and cries.

Chapter 11 - The Bribe

Lupin and Tonks are
expecting a baby! He
wants to join trio.

But Harry says that
parents shouldn't leave their kids,
called him a coward.

Lupin leaves. Kreacher
brings Mundungus, who reveals
new locket owner.

Chapter 12 - Magic Is Might

Umbridge has locket.
Snape is Hogwarts' Headmaster.
Do you still trust Snape?

Harry's visions grow
darker. Trio make plans to
invade Ministry.

Chapter 13 - The Muggle-Born Registration Commission

At the Ministry,
Undesirable Number
One is Harry P.

Hermoine steals
Umbridge's locket, summons
otter patronus.

Disguised, the trio
observes interrogations,
rescues Muggle-borns.

Chapter 14 - The Thief

Oh! Ron has been Splinched!
Grimmauld Place is no longer
safe. Hide in forest.

Gregorovitch dies
not knowing name of the thief,
blonde-haired and laughing.

Chapter 15 - The Goblin's Revenge

The Horcrux locket
blocks Harry's powers. Trio
shares burden, argues.

Goblins/humans talk:
Ginny tried to steal the sword,
but it is a fake.

Wearing the locket,
Ron argues with Harry. Then
Ron leaves! Don't go, Ron!

Chapter 16 - Godric's Hollow

Hermoine cries,
but she and Harry move on,
talk to a portrait.

Grindelwald's mark drawn
in Hermoine's book, strange
coincidence? Hm.

Godric's Hollow is
Godric Gryffindor's birthplace,
Harry's parents' graves.

Bathilda Bagshot
lives in Godric's Hollow. She
perhaps has the sword.

James and Lily's Grave:
"The last enemy that shall
be destroyed is death."

Chapter 17 - Bathilda's Secret

Bathilda Bagshot,
alas, was dead, her skin-shape
hiding a huge snake!

Voldemort arrives,
Harry and Hermonine
flee. Harry's wand breaks.

Chapter 18 - The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore

Gellert Grindelwald,
blonde laughing thief, Dark Wizard,
Dumbledore's best friend!

Albus' letter,
wizard's rule: "We seize control
for the greater good."

Harry feels betrayed
by a seventeen year-old
Albus Dumbledore.

Chapter 19 - The Silver Doe

Harry follows the
silver doe through the woods, finds
sword of Gryffindor.

Breaking the pond's ice,
Harry dives, swims for the sword,
but locket chokes him.

"Are you mental?" Yay!
Ron rescues Harry and sword,
destroys the locket.

Chapter 20 - Xenophilius Lovegood

Luna's father wore
Grindelwald's mark at wedding,
so trio visits.

Chapter 21 - The Tale of the Three Brothers

Luna's dad explains
sign of the Deathly Hallows,
Death and three brothers.

Hallows: Elder Wand,
Invisibility Cloak,
Resurrection Stone.

If united, the
Hallows make the possessor
the master of Death.

Yes, of course, Harry's
invisibility cloak
is THE Hallows Cloak!

Trio's preferences--
Hermoine: "cloak." Ron: "wand."
Harry: "stone." Funny.

Luna is missing,
her father betrayed trio.
Ron cloaks. They escape.

Chapter 22 - The Deathly Hallows

Harry's so obssessed
with the Deathly Hallows. What
about Horcruxes?

Radio update:
the Order of the Phoenix.
Harry speaks V's name.

Chapter 22 - Malfoy Manor

Trio is captured
by Fenrir Greyback, taken
to Malfoy Manor.

Harry, Ron are jailed
with Luna, others. Girl screams.
Oh, Hermoine!

Bellatrix demands
Griphook to verify sword.
He lies. Wormtail dies.

Voldemort's coming.
Free-elf Dobby rescues all
before he dies. (Sniff).

Chapter 24 - The Wandmaker

Hallows...Horcruxes...
At Bill and Fleur's, Griphook says
Harry is different.

Ollivander can't
repair Harry's wand. His quotes:
"The wand choses the

wizard." And also:
"...where a wand has been won, its
alliance will change."

Elder wand owners:
Gregorovitch. Grindelwald
stole. Dumbledore dueled.

Harry wants Horcrux
while Voldemort steals The Wand
from Dumbledore's tomb.

Chapter 25 - Shell Cottage

Griphook will help them
break into Gringotts if he
is given the sword.

Lupin and Tonks have
a baby boy, Ted! Harry
is Ted's godfather.

Chapter 26 - Gringotts

In disguise, trio
raids Gringotts, finds the cup of
Helga Hufflepuff.

But the treasure trap--
touch a treasure, which burns flesh,
multiplies, buries.

Harry burned by cup.
Griphook retrieves sword,
runs. Dragon escapes.

Chapter 27 - The Final Hiding Place

Voldemort worries:
Harry hunting Horcruxes.
Last one at Hogwarts.

Chapter 28 - The Missing Mirror

Tricking Death Eaters
with his goat patronus and
cranky attitude,

Hog's Head's bar man is
Aberforth Dumbledore, eyes
blue like Albus'.

Aberforth tells of
his sister's real past, how she
was attacked, gone mad.

How during his duel
with Grindelwald and Albus,
Ariana died.

Aberforth says the
Order is finished. Give up.
But Harry says no.

Moving pictures are
unexpected passage ways,
and here comes Neville!

Chapter 29 - The Lost Diadem

Neville has transformed
the Room of Requirement
to house an army.

Harry and Luna
seek the lost diadem of
Ravenclaw at night.

Chapter 30 - The Sacking of Severus Snape

Voldemort summoned!
One Carrow stunned by Luna,
the other Crucioed

by Harry. Hooray
for Professor McG! Three
Patronuses. Cats!

McGonagall duels
Snape! Flitwick and Sprout join in.
Snape flees as a bat!

Return of Percy,
penitent to his parents,
welcomed back to fight.

Chapter 31 - The Battle of Hogwarts

Harry asks the ghost
of Ravenclaw Tower where's
the lost diadem?

Hermoine and
Ron return. They destroyed cup
with basilik's tooth.

When Ron wants to help
save the house-elves, he has earned
Hermoine's kiss.

In the hiding place,
Harry encounters Draco,
Crabbe, Goyle. Fire!

Harry saves Draco.
Ron, G. "IF WE DIE FOR THEM,
I'LL KILL YOU, HARRY!"

The Diadem breaks
because of the Fiendfyre.
Time to kill the snake.

While battling Death
Eaters, Percy makes a joke.
Fred-- On no! Not Fred!!

Chapter 32 - The Elder Wand

Spiders, giants join
the fight. Trio escapes the
dementors. Find V.

Voldemort kills Snape
to become master of the
Elder Wand. V. leaves.

Harry gathers Snape's
silvery blue memories
to view later. (Sniff).

Chapter 33 - The Prince's Tale

No! Remus AND Tonks.
Their bodies dead next to Fred's.
Poor orphaned Teddy!

His memories showed
Snape was good! He loved Lily.
But Petunia? Not.

You may have guessed it--
Dumbledore did ask Snape to
kill him, not Draco.

Dumbledore told Snape
that Harry Potter must die,
killed by Voldemort!

Part of Voldemort's
soul is bound to Harry's soul.
Harry, a Horcrux.

Poignant Snape moments:
Lily's letter and photo,
his doe patronus.

Chapter 34 - The Forest Again

Harry knew neither
would live, neither would survive,
he and Voldemort.

Harry kisses Snitch,
holds The Stone, sees his parents,
Lupin, Sirius.

Deep in the forest,
Harry meets Voldemort, who
sends a green blast. Death.

Chapter 35 - King's Cross

Semi-dead Harry
reunites with Dumbledore,
who explains it all.

Albus chose Hallows.
Voldemort chose Horcruxes.
Ways to avoid death.

Chapter 36 - The Flaw in the Plan

Harry plays dead. To
save her son, Draco's mother
betrays Voldemort.

Everyone screams "No!"
at Harry's "death." Brave Neville
kills the snake. Go, Nev!

Molly Weasley duels
and kills Bellatrix. Harry
confronts Voldemort.

Elder wand owners:
Dumbledore, Draco, not Snape,
Now Harry Potter.

Yay! Voldemort dies.
Harry uses Elder Wand
to fix his old wand.

Epilogue - Nineteen Years Later

Harry and Ginny,
Ron and Hermoine--their
kids leave for Hogwarts.

That nod from Draco
speaks volumes. Now Harry has
family. All's well.