Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Reader reviewed by No-chan

Millions of young children, teenagers, and adults have enjoyed the Harry Potter series, ever since it first came out. I enjoyed it myself, when I got the first book, around the time it appeared.

Before I go any further, I must admit, I love the first four books. They're excellent reading material - there's plenty of adventure, humor, and good, real life situations. There was rarely a character I really disliked - in the case of characters such as Umbridge, you HATED them, but there was an in-character reason for it. The setting was excellent - it didn't seem fake, and still doesn't, even now that I'm older. I can still close my eyes and imagine that somewhere in Britain, if you walk through the right barrier in King's Cross station, you'll be able to board a scarlet steam engine and ride off to a world filled with magic.

The plot is, yes, cliche - amazing good wizard vs. amazing bad wizard. There is no half-way points between good and evil - you're either on Harry's side, or on Voldemort's. The characters, as I stated, started out good, but...

Unfortunately, after the fourth book, things go heavily downhill.

The first thing that's wrong, is that younger kids are no longer the target audience. In fact, you probably want to wait a few years if you're going to read these books to younger children - the things that happen in earlier books are easy to understand, but after the fourth, things get way too complicated for a younger child to understand. I don't think it was ever a smart idea to completely change the target audience right in the middle of the series. This was okay in the beginning, since the series did take a few years to fully come out, but it's bad when you want to read the whole thing, start to finish, to a younger child, or you are a younger child and want to read it now.

Next, the characters start getting less fun, and more irritating. Harry, especially, is almost continuously whiny and mean, and it simply amazes me, how bad he can treat some people at times (especially people who are his friends, number one being Hagrid!).

Another thing that was a bad mistake was the sudden change of genre. First, it starts off as fantasy-adventure. The fourth book kind of starts swerving there, but it's okay, because, hey, there's a dance. Everyone gets a little sappy when there's a prom coming up. By the time I got to the sixth book, I was gagging at all the romance - that's NOT what I started reading the books for! I understood that the characters were teenagers and their interests were changing, and hormones were starting to go into overdrive, but it didn't have to become such a main point.

The books become filled with cliches around the sixth book. I was able to tell anyone who wanted to listen how the entire next two books would go as soon as I read the title of the sixth book - no one believed me, but I was completely right. Sure, to some extent, you're always able to tell what's going to happen to the hero/s. But in the Harry Potter series, it was taken to a new extreme - nothing was, or is, much of a surprise.

When you get to the fifth book, there's much more dialog between characters - okay, most of the time, it's more of a monologue. Where other books excel at characters making wise comments about life, Harry Potter fails at it completely.

By the time I finished the series, I was so happy to finally be done, and I promised myself, I would never read the sixth or seventh book ever again, because they disappointed me so much. Harry became, quite quickly, a carbon copy of all the cliche heroes that no one really likes. Suffice it to say, I am embarrassed to admit I still have the last two books in my room.

The series is an amazing disappointment, and it's better off left entirely alone, because even if you like the first couple of books, like I did, you'll want to finish the series, and you'll find out that nothing amazing happens, there are no surprising twists.

So, my advice is, leave the series completely alone. You might be made fun of for never having read the series, but it's a better fate than being sorely disappointed by something that started out so good, but ended so badly.

Reader reviewed by Megan

We join Harry, Ron, and Hermione again in the final book of the series. Voldemort and his followers have taken over the ministry, forcing the three on the run. While on the run, they search and destroy Voldemort's horcruxes (holding little pieces of his soul - see book 6), bringing them to Hogwarts. Harry unites the Deathly Hallows, thought only to be legend, to enable him to sacrifice himself. Only, Harry does not die. He returns to life, and kills Voldemort. The end has quite a special twist, leaving the reader with a smile.

Reader reviewed by Matt Hill

Rowling has done it again! In this finale to the Harry Potter Series, Harry goes on several adventures, including the quest to find out about his parents, kill all the Horcruxes, and lastly, defend Hogwarts and defeat Voldemort himself when he is purely human!

This book shows exactly how much better Rowling has gotten at smoke and Mirrors; no one could've forseen these plot twists and turns, and if you need proof that Rowling has gotten better, go back and read Book 1 again!

Rowling truely does a magnificent way of ending the series with a bang, but she still leaves a couple strung hanging; whether or not it is to start a new novel as either a prequel or sequel, or just to keep readers guessing we'll never really know! Read this stunning sequel today!

Reader reviewed by sinera


I like this book because it gives you jolts of excitement inside the middle of the book something suprisingly comes out which gets you filled with fear hoping to figure out what happens next.

This book is about how Harry destroys all of voldemorts herxuces with the sword of godric gryffindor and kills voldermort with his two best friends Ron and Hermoine. they have to go through the ministry without getting caught and get through hogwarts without the headmaster Severus Snape figuring out.

Reader reviewed by Leigha

I really like this book. I literally could not put it down and finished it in a total of five hours. It has many unexpected twists and turns throughout and that is what makes it suspenseful. Before this story harry potter and the order of the phoenix was my favorite but in my opinion this surpasses even that. I would recommend this story in a heartbeat.

Reader reviewed by Tiara

I judge the best books and movies as ones in which i cry or laugh. This book made me do both so its extra special. Voldemort has taken over all of England and Harry, Ron, and hermione are the only ones who know his seceret, the key to defeating him. They embark on their most dangerous journey yet and the ordeals they face are worse then ever before. It was good that we finally began to get our answers but then i noticed that from the very begining it was wrapping up aswell. Deathly Hallows is my second favorite, after prisoner of Azkaban, and its the best adventure-wise.I dont want to write away to much of the plot so i won't reveal anythingelse. If you are new to the potter world the best thing to do is to read them in order.

Reader reviewed by MRose52

All Harry Potter fans will love this divulging and completeing finish to the highly acclimed series. J.K. Rowling has done it again, another best-seller you can't afford to miss. Filled with action and betrayal, a few suprising twists, and, of corse..lots of Harry, Ron, and Herminie. The best part? Finding out wether Snape is good or evil...or maybe when_____killed_____(can't tell you that). But I won't say any more. SO, read on!

Reader reviewed by wendy

this is the "best" and unfortunately last book in the extrodinary Harry Potter Series. In this book, Harry undergoes a very dangerous task let to him by Dumbledor--FIND AND KILL ALL HOROCRUXES OF VOLDEMORT. On this adventure, Harry takes Hermoine and Ron with him. As they journey to find and destry the horocruxes, they are always on the run, unable to stay in one place more than one night and without protection spells. They go through lots of troubles and fall into the hands of He Who Must Not Be Named two too many times but are baraly saved by the small faith the hold in thier hearts. As their journey come to an end, Harry finds out the Shocking Truth, How could dumbledor treat him this way?

I really loved this series and an sad to see it be over, but all good things must come to an end right? i would recommend this book to any Fantasy and previous Harry Potter fans(especiall those who just watch the movies, they really need to get into the books)

Reader reviewed by HPLuver7

This Book was amazing!
If you have read the other books in the sseries than you will love it. It is an amazing addition to the epic tale of Harry Potter. Many people did not enjoy the ending, though I loved it!

In this book Hatty Potter, along woth his best friends, Ron Wealy and Hermone Granger, goes on an adventure to capture and detroy all of Lord Voldemort's horcruxes (pieces of his soul,) and, in the long run, kill Voldemort.

It is an amazing end to the epic tale of Harry Potter and it does the series justice. Personally, I loved it, and you will too. It was an enjoyable read and a classic already. I gave Five Stars. Hopeful;ly you have or will enjoy this book, HPLuver7!

Reader reviewed by anabel

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is the last book of the Harry Potter Series. In this book, we have all the answers. Any question you had throughout the books has been answered.

This book is my personal favorite of all the Harry Potter book. Although I did find the ending a bit disappointing, but that is my opinion. I dont want to give anything away, but readers will be some-what happy.

I am increbibly upset because my favorite character (hint: it is not one of the main characters) died and when i found the reason that this person was dead, i was disappointed. I guess i amagined his/her death as a memorial, heroic death.

Many characters die in this book and if you will get extremely distraught, then I advise you not to read this but if you are capable of dealing with many tragic insidents, then go right ahead.