By the way, Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows is 759 pages.

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Why Harry Potter Is Better The Second Time...

The second time reading Harry Potter is WAY better than the first time. First, Harry Potter books are complicated beyond belief. In no way they are a sappy love story, or intense action book. They are more than that. They are all elements of a book wrapped into one. Reading Harry Potter books the second time isn't as suspensefull, but trust me it is still exciting. But the second time reading the Harry Potter books you are able to connect all the puzzle pieces together. Rowling has an amazing ability to connect everything together, and make every small detail have a purpose. Unexplainable things in previous Harry Potter books, such as when Harry recieves the Invisibility Cloack in the Sorceror's Stone, is explained and becomes even more significant in the Deathly Hallows. Every action of Severus Snape finally becomes explainable in the last book, and the true motives of all of the characters are show. That's another thing I love about JK Rowling. She never just sticks a character in for no good reason. EVER character has a purpose, and a small detail in an earlier book in significant in another. How the heck she is able to tie every single detail together amazes me beyond belief and I have no clue how she does it. That's why I believe she is such such an inspiring author. Reading the Harry Potter books a second time helps you to focus on these details instead of just the story line. You are able to look at the total effect of every single detail, which in turn helps to better understand the book. I love these books, and I could never read a 759 page book if it wasn't Harry Potter.

Please, JK Rowling. Start another series.

The Boy Who Played Dead, And Defeated Voldemort At Last

Harry awakes from the magical scene with Dumbledore, and is back in the forest. He decides to act like he is dead. Voldemort first asks "The boy... Is he dead?" and sends Narcissa Malfoy over to inspect him. She asks Harry, "Is Draco alive? Is he in the castle?" and Harry replies yes. She then tells Voldemort that Harry is in fact dead. For victory, Voldy threw Harry in the air a couple times and Harry had to remain still. Voldy then made Hagrid carry "dead" Harry through the people. He carried Harry with his heavy tears beating upon him. Voldemort then announces to the people "Harry Potter is dead. He was killed as he ran away, trying to save himself while you lay down your lives for him. We bring you his body as proof that your hero is gone." They arrive to the castle, and Harry can hear all his loved ones crying, but is then laid at Voldy's feet and he proclaims to the crowd of people how cowardly Harry is. Neville is so angry that he tried to charge Voldemort, but fails. Fortunately he doesn't kill Neville but explains, "You show spirit and bravery...you will make a very valuable Death Eater." but Neville screams for the DA and instead Voldemort sets a flaming Sorting Hat on Neville's head and proclaims that there is no more sorting at Hogwarts; all students are Slytherins. Then, people begin fighting, so do giants and centaurs, and then Harry puts the Invisibility Cloak over himself and helps Neville break free from the curse, then Neville cuts off Nagini's head. Harry luckily helps to protect Neville with a Shield Charm. Hagrid then realizes that Harry is gone and yells "HARRY-WHERE'S HARRY?". Fighting then broke out again, and Harry is ready to pursue Voldemort. McGonagall is fighting Voldemort with Kingsley and Slughorn, and Bellatrix was fighting Luna, Ginny, and Hermione until Mrs. Weasley came in and finished her off. Finally the evil Bellatrix Lestrange was put to rest. Voldemort got soooo angry and tried to kill Mrs. Weasley, but Harry saves her with a Shield Charm. Then, the moment of truth: Harry takes off his invisibility cloak. It was down to the two of them. Voldemort claims that he is only alive by accident, and he taunts Harry with the idea of love. But Harry claims that he is more powerful because of his love. Harry then reveals the truth about Dumbledore's death, and how he loved Lily and how their patronuses were matching does. Harry then tells "Riddle" to try for some remorse. Harry then tells Voldemort that the wand will never work right again because since Dumbledore's dead was planned, he will be the last true master. But since Draco disarmed Dumbledore, he is the true master of the wand. But since Harry disarmed Draco, the Elder Wand is his! Then they both shoot out their famous spells: Harry says Expelliarmus and Voldemory says Avada Kedavra. This causes the Elder Wand to fly through the air, and into Harry's hand, and then Voldemort's Killing Curse bounce back into him and he is dead! Woooohooo. After some silence for the reality to set in, everyone cheers for joy! Harry needs alone time, so he puts on his cloak and is rejoiced to see all the happy families. He then finds Ron & Hermione and they go up to the headmaster's office, and all the portraits clap for him. He then arrives at Dumbledore's portrait, and finds him crying tears of joy. He asks Dumbledore what to do about the Hallows. He said he dropped to Ressurection stone in the forest, which no one knows about, and he wants to keep the cloak. As for the elder wand, he feels that he must return it to Dumbledore's grave because it is "more trouble that it's worth".
The book ends with a scene 19 years later. Harry & Ginny are married, and so are Ron & Hermione. They are taking their children to Platform 9 3/4 to go to Hogwarts. James, the oldest, is already enrolled in Hogwarts and is coming back for another year. It is Albus' first year at Hogwarts, and Lily is too young to go yet. They run into the Ron, Hermione, and their kids Hugo and Rose. They then see Draco Malfoy with his son, Scorpius, and his wife, who is unnamed. Ron tells Rose to beat Scorpius on every test, and thanks god that Rose inherited Hermione's brains. James runs off the train and tells the parents that he just saw Teddy Luping kissing, or should I say snogging, Victoire Weasley (Bill & Fleur's daughter). Ginny tells James to give "Neville our love", because he is a professor of Herbology now. Harry then tells Albus that the is named Albus Severus after two great Headmasters of Hogwarts, and one was actually a Slytherin, but he also told him to tell the Sorting Hat his opinions because it takes them into account, like it did with Harry. The book ends, saying "The scar had not pained Harry for 19 years. All was well". And they lived Happily Ever After...

Harry Must Die..

"Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?"
"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"

That is the truth. And Harry has come to accept it. He then leaves Dumbledore's office with the Cloak and finds tons of people dead. He stops to tell Neville that the snake is must be killed, and then sees Ginny from under the Cloak, which is very hard for him because he is dying to talk to her one last time. He walks into the Forbidden Forest and the remembers the Snitch. He puts his lips to it and says "I am about to die", and it opens. In it lie the Resurrection Stone. He then realized that the dead people he loved were not coming to him, he was coming to them. Then Lupin, Sirius, and his parents appeared. They tell him how brave he has been and how proud they are of him. He then asks them if death will hurt, and Sirius tells him that it is easier than falling asleep. Harry feels guilty about their death, and they all reassure. They then tell him that they are invisible to everyone but Harry, and they are there to comfort him. After passing Yaxley and Dolohov, he then finds the Dark Lord. He drops his cloak and the stone, so all of his protectors disappeared. He explains that it didn't matter, for this moment was between only him and Voldemort. Hagrid, bound up in a tree, yells to Harry not to surrender, but he is then silenced by a Death Eater. Voldemort approaches him, and all Harry can think about is kissing Ginny. Then, all Harry saw was green light and then everything was gone. Then, King's Cross. Best Chapter Ever! Harry then wakes up naked, but then wishes for clothes and they then appeared out of thin air. He then found a "small, naked child, curled on the ground" that was making noises, which kind of scared Harry. He wanted to comfort it, but felt repulsed by it. He then heard someone say "You cannot help" and there appeared Albus Dumbledore. He tells Harry how brave he is, and that he is dead, but Harry is not. Dumbledore explained that when Voldemort killed Harry, he only killed the part of his soul that was in Harry's body, because Harry was the seventh Horcrux that was never meant to be made. The fact that Harry accepted and embraced death made him stronger that Voldemort, who feared it. That is what helped Harry to defeat Voldy in the sky. When asked where he thought he was, Harry replied that he believed they were in a clean King's Cross Station (hence the chapter title). Harry asks about the Hallows, and Dumbledore says they indeed do work. Harry, he explains, is a relative of Ignotus Peverell, one of the 3 brothers. Dumbledore goes on to tell Harry about Ariana's death and how ashamed he was of it. Dumbledore claimed that at one point he did have all 3 hallows, but then realized that Harry is the true master of the Hallows because he isn't afraid of death. He also explained to Harry that he hoped for Snape to have the Elder Wand, which didn't go as planned. He then gave Harry the choice to stay, or go back. Of course Harry chose to go back, he had to finish of Voldemort!
Great quote: "Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pit the living, and, above all, those who live without love." Aww.

The Truth About Severus Snape. He's a Good Guy After All!

Snape & Lily on the playground; the first scene Harry sees in the Pensieve

Fred is dead. Wow. Ron suddenly becomes so angry, and ready to kill tons of Death Eaters. But Hermione tells him that they shouldn't be killing people, but rather Nagini, which Ron finds no satisfaction in. In hopes to find out where Voldy is, Harry finds him through his thoughts, sitting in a quiet room with Mr. Malfoy. Lucius is worried about Malfoy, and claims that they need to stop the battle because maybe Harry is already dead, but the Dark Lord replies that Harry will come to him and then sends Lucius to find Snape. Harry finds out that Nagini is in mid-air in some sort of "enchanted, protected space". Harry realizes that Voldy is in the Shrieking Shack. Before Harry puts his cloak on, he almost gets killed, but Hermione saves the day. The trio then finally gets it on an is able to see all the madness. The find that even Peeves is participating, dementors, even one of Hagrid's huge giant relatives. Ron then punches Malfoy and yells at him "That's the second time we've saved your life tonight, you two faced bastard!", and Hermione stuns as Death Eater. As they find their way to the Shrieking Shack, they help save some people on their side, and hurt others. The trio finally arrives under the Cloak, finding Snape & Voldy talking. The Dark Lord has realized that the Elder Wand isn't working very well because he isn't the true master: Snape is. So Voldy then orders Nagini to kill Snape by Parseltongue, and two seconds after he says "I regret it", hmmm. They then come out from the Invisibility Cloack, and in the midst of his death, Snape orders them to take his memories that are seeping out of his body. Eww. The trio runs out and into the castle, and find that Lupin and Tonks have died too, which shocks Harry. He then runs up to the headmaster's office to find out the truth behind Snape from his memories using Dumbledore's Pensieve. Harry finds out that Snape and Lily (his mom) were best friends, which led to Snape's undying love for her. Snape gets really jealous over James and Lily, and James later beats up Snape, which results in Snape calling Lily and mudblood and the end of their friendship. Harry then sees Snape pleading to Dumbledore to keep Lily & her family safe, because he had recently heard about the prophecy. The next scene Harry sees is another one between Snape and Dumbledore, where Snape promises to keep Harry safe, only if no one is to ever find out about it. He sees other scenes where Snape confides in Dumbledore about Death Eaters in the school, and one where he is helping heal Dumbledore's hand. Then, the big shocker comes, Dumbledore wanted Snape to kill him. It was all part of a plan. Then, Harry finds out that there is a part of Voldemort living in Harry, and he must die from Voldemort so that the part of Voldemort's soul dies too. This explains the connection between the two. Snape gets angry at Dumbledore, because he thought he was trying to "keep Lily Potter's son safe" and not be "raising him like a pig for slaughter". But he shows Dumbledore his patronus: a doe, to prove that he still loves Lily. Later, Harry finds that it was Snape who told Voldy the correct night of Harry's departure from Privet Drive, for Dumbledore told him to do so, and he also told him to devise a plan to give Harry the sword. IT WAS SNAPE ALL ALONG.

Oh the stupid diadem... Time for destruction!

Harry & Malfoy escaping the Fiendfyre and capturing the diadem of Ravenclaw.

Yay, for staying up until 1 AM to finish the book! 759 pages are completed!
Now time to blog about it....
So as soon as Harry realizes that he knows where the diadem is, he begins sprinting towards to ROR. He then runs into Ron & Hermione on his way there. They tell then that they have been in the Chamber of Secrets collecting basilisk's fangs from the skeleton, and destroying the Hufflepuff cup (which Hermione destroyed. Go girl! One more Horcrux down). Ron was surprisingly able to open the Chamber with his secret parseltongue skills that he copied from Harry from the forest. The trio are reunited alas and run to the ROR, where they find the Weasleys, Tonks, and the Longbottoms (even Neville's granny). Then, in the midst of high emotions, Ron & Hermione kiss! Awa... They then leave the ROR, because it must reform into the Room of Hidden Things. They then leave the room and find that the fighting has began! There is dueling and people shooting jinxes galore! Finally the trio enters the ROHT to find the diadem, and then runs into the trio of Slytherin: Crabbe, Goyle, and Malfoy. Dun dun dun... Crabbe and Goyle then go crazy and begin throwing spells to trying at kill Hermione, but then Malfoy tells them not to because the Dark Lord wants them alive. Harry then disarms Goyle in this momentary conversation, then they all begin shooting curses at each other, but it was Hermione's stunning spell that hit Goyle. Crabbe then being the very smart person he is, sets the room on fire. But not with ordinary fire, a magical fire that pursues and chases its victims. This fire, that has shaped into various scary objects surrounds the trio, and they are trapped until quick thinking Harry grabs two brooms and they fly out of the monstrous fire. But not before his good conscience kicks in. He sees Malfoy, and the stunned Goyle trapped in the fire, and swoops down to save them. Ron is pissed and yells at Harry "IF WE DIE FOR THEM, I'LL KILL YOU, HARRY!". Which makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. So Malfoy was on Harry's broom, and Ron, Hermione, and Goyle are on another. Harry turns back to grab the diadem, luckily gets it, and they narrowly make it out of the room. After they get out of the room (that then disappears), Malfoy realizes that Crabbe is indeed dead. Again, he is very smart. His own flames killed himself. The realize that Ginny is gone, then the diadem oozes a blood/tar goo and breaks apart. Hermione realizes that it must've been the cursed Fiendfyre. They realize that all that's left is Nagini! Soon, the turn the corner to find that the Death Eaters have penetrated into Hogwarts. Then, the castle seems to have been blown up, and they come out the rubble to find Fred dead.... :(

And So The Battle Begins!

The Grey Lady: The ghost from which Harry finds the truth

So, Voldy is at Hogwarts. I repeat he is at Hogwarts. McGonagall tells the students in the Great Hall that anyone is is 17+ can stay at fight. Then, Voldemort's voice chimes in through Hogwarts and he says that not a single wizard will be killed if they simply hand over Mr. Potter. Their pure blood is too precious to lose! Although a couple of Slytheirns, cough Pansy cough, want to give Harry over, McGonagall refuses. The loyal people of Hogwarts stay, which is most of Gryffindor and some of Hufflepuff/Ravenclaw, and are told the plan of action from none other than the very intimidating Kingsley. In the midst of the hubbabaloo, Harry then remember the diadem and then take off to go look. Since no one has seen it in living memory, who better to go to than the ghosts of Hogwarts! First, Harry goes to Nearly Headless Nick, who tells him where the Gray Lady (the ghost of Ravenclaw) is. He directs him over to the Gray Lady, who tells him about the history of the diadem. It ends up that Ravenclaw's daughter stole the diadem, ran off to Albania with it, hid it in a tree, and then was then killed by the Bloody Baron. She has told no one about her story except Tom Riddle, and Harry figures out that he must've then gotten it, and put the diadem back in Hogwarts when he asked Dumbledore for a job. Harry then runs off to go look for it, then runs into Hagrid and Fang, and they continue off running. They past some gargoyles which remind Harry of a broken bust that he put a wig and old tiara on in the ROR. He then believes that this ugly old tiara is in fact the diadem!

In the 600's! And things are getting intense.

Snape & McGonagall! 

So, now that Harry is dead set on looking for the diadem, first he needs to know what he's looking for. Luna offers to take him up to Ravenclaw Tower and show him what it looks like from the statue in the room. Immidiately when they get up there, they are found by the Alecto Carrow, one of the evil people who took over Hogwarts. She immidately presses her dark mark, which not only summons Voldy, must also Amycus Carrow and Proffesor McGonagall. Before those two get there, Luna stuns her. When he gets there, he doesn't see Harry because he hid under the Invisibility Cloak.  So he makes up a lie for when Voldy gets there, but McGonagall gets pissed and Amycus ends up spitting on her. Harry gets pissed back and curses Amycus, and then he tells McGonagall that he must find the diadem because it's too late to run form Voldy. McGonagall decided to help him, and gather with the other teachers to protect the school. They run off, but then run into Snape. The tension is running high between the two until the other teachers come. They all then do everything in their ability to protect the school with various charms and magical plants. Harry then heads back to the Room of Requirement (I'm gonna call it ROR from now on), and the Heads of the Houses get all their students moved into the Great Hall. Now the Slytherins must choose Voldy or Hogwarts because a battle is brewing! Harry then finds even more people in the ROR, even the Weasleys and Lupin. They then make everyone go to the Great Hall, except the Weasleys and OOTF members. Ginny pleads to fight, but they all think she's too young. The chapter then ends with Voldemort appearing outside of Hogwarts, sooooo angry and ready to take down some students.

Saved By Dumbledore! Aberforth That Is...

In the midst of yet another scary run-into with Death Eaters (and Dementors this time), Harry hears someone whisper to him "Potter, in here, quick!" Without hesitation, the trio run into the upstairs of Hog's Head to discover that their savior was none other than Aberforth Dumbledore, Albus' younger brother. He tells some lies to convince the angry Death Eaters that it was his patronus (a goat), not Harry's stag. While upstairs, Harry notices a portrait of Ariana Dumbledore, and a mirror below it, which Harry discovers that it was Aberforth who helped him using the mirror piece. Aberforth was instructed how to use the mirror from Albus after buying it from Mundungus Fletcher in hopes to keep an eye on Harry. They mystery of the doe patronus is still there because they find out that he didn't send it because his patronus is a goat. Aberforth advises him to go to the mountains out of the madness, but Harry wants to stay and continue on the mission Albus left him. Aberforth gets angry and he advises Harry that the mission could get him killed. Harry questions why Aberforth is anti-Albus' plans, and he then tells Harry the story of his life. He explains how Muggle boys attacked Ariana, causing her to become traumatized and how Mr. Dumbledore attacked the boys back, which caused him to go to Azkaban. They tried to keep the whole thing very low profile so no one found out about Ariana. Later, Ariana accidentally killed Kendra due to her uncontrollable magic. Ariana was later killed in a duel between Albus, Aberforth, and Grindelwald, because Aberforth was angry that Albus was abandoning the family to go travel with Grindelwald. After discussion and disagreements, Harry demands to that he must get into Hogwarts. Aberforth shows him the only way to get into Hogwarts that hasn't been closed: the portrait of Ariana. After he shows Harry the tunnel, Neville appears all bruised and cut, but ecstatic to see Harry. The three climb into the painting with Neville, and he then explains the harsh punishment the teacher of Hogwarts, such as the Carrows, perform on the students, hence Neville's cuts. Neville has led the Dumbledore's Army, and has been constantly rebelling against the Death Eaters, which led to an incident with a Death Eater and his grandmother. They eventually end up in the Room of Requirement, and are greeted by Seamus and other members of Dumbledore's Army. A bunch of other friends of Harry show up and a ready for a fight, but Harry explains that that is not why he is here. He explains how exactly he needs to destroy Voldemort, and is searching for an object of Ravenclaw's. Luna, of course, tells Harry that is is probably the lost diadem.