Chapter 1：The Dark Lord Ascending In which Snape reports to Voldemort the plans of the Order of the Phoenix to move Harry Potter from number four Privet Drive, Voldemort takes Lucius Malfoy’s wand, the Death Eaters gathered in Malfoy Manor make fun of Tonks’ marriage to a werewolf, and Voldemort kills Charity Burbage, the erstwhile Hogwarts Muggle Studies teacher.
In which Harry is preparing to leave Privet Drive, emptying his school trunk and packing a rucksack with the items most important to him. In the process, he also sorts through the newspapers of the past few weeks to re-read and save Dumbledore’s obituary. At the end of his packing, he notices an interview in the current day’s paper in which Rita Skeeter is talking about her upcoming tell-all biography, The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore.
Chapter 3：The Dursleys Departing The Dursley family prepares to leave their home on Privet Drive to seek protection from the impending dangers posed by Voldemort and his followers. The chapter opens with Harry Potter contemplating the significance of this moment, as his aunt, uncle, and cousin have always treated him poorly. Despite their animosity towards him, the Dursleys are now forced to acknowledge the threat Voldemort poses to both the magical and non-magical worlds. Dudley Dursley, Harry's cousin, surprises everyone by expressing concern for Harry's safety. He extends a hand of friendship, showing a rare moment of compassion and gratitude for saving his life in the previous summer. This unexpected gesture leaves Harry momentarily stunned and touched. The Dursleys are escorted by members of the Order of the Phoenix, including Hestia Jones and Dedalus Diggle, who assure them of their safety. The departure is marked by a mix of awkwardness and unspoken emotions as Harry watches his relatives leave, possibly for the last time.
In which Mad-Eye arrives with Ron, Hermione, and various Order members in tow, announcing a change in plans. Six of them are to use Polyjuice Potion to act as decoy Harry Potters while seven act as protectors, which each protector/Potter pair heading to a different safe-house. Upon getting airborne and splitting up, all of them are attacked, and Hedwig is soon killed. Harry gives himself away by using the Disarming Charm, and he and Hagrid barely escape with their lives, crashing into the Tonks’ back garden.
In which the survivors make their way to the Burrow, learning that Mad-Eye was killed in the fight and George Weasley severely hurt, while Mundungus fled. Harry then has a vision of Voldemort torturing Ollivander, seeking to know why using Lucius Malfoy’s wand did not solve the problem of being unable to defeat Harry Potter.
Chapter 6：The Ghoul in Pajamas In which Molly Weasley loads Harry, Ron and Hermione up with wedding-preparation chores in an attempt to stop them from making plans to leave, while Ron and Hermione prove to Harry that they understand what’s involved in accompanying him and have taken steps to protect their families from retaliation. Hermione reveals that she has researched the problem of destroying Horcruxes using books stolen from Dumbledore’s office. Fleur’s parents arrive for the wedding, and simple plans are made to celebrate Harry’s birthday, which falls the day before the ceremony.
Chapter 7：The Will of Albus Dumbledore "The Will of Albus Dumbledore," delves into the aftermath of Albus Dumbledore's death and the reading of his will. Harry, Hermione, and Ron are summoned to the office of Rufus Scrimgeour, the Minister for Magic. Scrimgeour reads out the contents of Dumbledore's will, revealing that he left specific items to each of them. Ron inherits the Deluminator, a device that can capture and release light, which holds sentimental value as it was created by Dumbledore himself. Hermione receives a copy of "The Tales of Beedle the Bard," a collection of wizarding fairy tales that is later revealed to be crucial in understanding the Deathly Hallows. Harry is bequeathed the Golden Snitch he caught in his first Quidditch match and the Sword of Gryffindor, though the Ministry withholds the sword, claiming it was not Dumbledore’s to give. In which Harry, disguised by Polyjuice Potion, attends Bill’s wedding to Fleur, where he meets Xenophilius Lovegood and Ron’s Great Aunt Muriel and reencounters Viktor Krum and Elphias Doge. Thanks to Krum, Harry remembers who Gregorovitch is and learns that Xenophilius is wearing a symbol associated with Grindelwald, and thanks to Muriel’s gossip he hears more about the Dumbledores. The party is broken up by the arrival of Shacklebolt’s Patronus, warning the guests that the Ministry has fallen and Scrimgeour is dead, so the Death Eaters are coming.
In which Harry, Ron and Hermione flee the Death Eaters by Apparating to Tottenham Court Road, Hermione’s handbag turns out to have hidden depths, and they go to a Muggle café to plan their next move. Dolohov and Rowle arrive, they duel, and after cleaning up Harry recommends hiding out in Grimmauld Place.
In which Harry explores more of Grimmauld Place, finding a letter from his mother in Sirius’ room, then discovering that Sirius’ brother Regulus was the mysterious R.A.B. Hermione remembers seeing the locket two summers before, Harry calls Kreacher, and Kreacher reveals that while he took the locket, it was then taken from him by Mundungus Fletcher, and explains how it came into Regulus’ possession. Harry then asks Kreacher to find Mundungus and bring him to Grimmauld Place, and wins Kreacher’s loyalty by giving him the false locket for his own.
In which Lupin seeks out Harry, Ron and Hermione at Grimmauld Place and offers to accompany them on their quest, but Harry refuses, recognizing that Lupin is seeking escape from complications in his personal life. Kreacher returns with Mundungus, who reveals that Umbridge took the locket from him as a bribe for not turning him in for selling magical artefacts without a license.
In which Harry, Ron and Hermione, after weeks of planning, ambush three Ministry workers, assume their identities, and sneak into Ministry headquarters. To their horror, they learn that Ron has taken the identity of a man whose wife is about to be interrogated about her blood status, and who faces a sentence in Azkaban for being a Muggle-born with a wand.
Chapter 13：The Muggle-born Registration Commission In which Hermione accompanies Umbridge to court while Harry breaks into Umbridge’s office, to find Mad-Eye’s eye mounted on her door, while inside she has a file on Arthur Weasley and a copy of Rita Skeeter’s book. Harry retrieves the eye and heads back downstairs to the courtroom, where he and Hermione Stun the Ministry workers, take the locket, and release the prisoners, telling them to go into hiding. They collect Ron and attempt to return to Grimmauld Place, but must abandon it when they realize they’ve accidentally brought a Death Eater with them into its protections.
In which Harry, Ron and Hermione have Apparated to the old Quidditch World Cup campgrounds, Ron having been splinched in the process. Hermione treats Ron’s injuries and they set up camp, whereupon Harry has a vision of Voldemort interrogating Gregorovitch and realizes that Voldemort is searching for something Gregorovitch once had but which was stolen by a young man long ago.
Chapter 15：The Goblin’s Revenge In which Harry, Ron and Hermione spend weeks moving from place to place, failing either to destroy the locket Horcrux or to think of a lead to find the others and squabbling with one another in frustration, aggravated by the Horcrux’s poisonous influence. Eventually they stumble across other fugitives – a party of Muggle-born wizards and goblins on the run – and learn that a fake has been substituted for Gryffindor’s sword. They then question the portrait of Phineas Nigellus (which Hermione hid in her bag) and learn that the sword should be able to destroy Horcruxes. Ron, his self-control sapped by the Horcrux, then loses his temper and leaves. In which weeks pass while Harry and Hermione, the heart gone out of them with Ron, concentrate on finding a lead to the sword’s location. At Christmastime, Harry asks to go to Godric’s Hollow for personal reasons and Hermione agrees for quest-related reasons. After planning carefully, they Apparate into Godric’s Hollow in disguise and visit the graves of Harry’s parents.
Leaving the cemetery, Harry and Hermione see the Potters’ old house, then encounter someone who appears to be Bathilda Bagshot but does not speak until she gets Harry alone. Too late, Harry discovers that they’ve been led into a trap, and that Bathilda’s corpse is being used as a disguise for Nagini. He and Hermione manage to escape, at the cost of Harry’s wand being broken accidentally by Hermione.
Chapter 18：The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore In which Hermione gives Harry a copy of The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore that she picked up in the Bagshot house, and they learn that the young man in the picture was Gellert Grindelwald, who according to Rita Skeeter was very close to Albus Dumbledore for a brief period when they were young, at a crucial period in both their lives.
In which Hermione Apparates with Harry to the Forest of Dean, where Harry, keeping watch late at night, sees and follows a Patronus in the form of a silver doe to a frozen pool in which the sword of Gryffindor lies. He is nearly strangled by the locket Horcrux’s chain when he dives to retrieve it, and is saved from drowning by Ron, who has been shown the way back by the Deluminator. Ron then confronts and destroys the Horcrux after Harry commands it to open in Parseltongue. They return together to camp, where Harry has to protect Ron from Hermione for a while.
Chapter 20：Xenophilius Lovegood In which Harry and Ron bring each other up to date on their adventures, Hermione finds the triangular mark in a photograph of one of Dumbledore’s letters, and the trio seek out Xenophilius Lovegood at his home for further information about the mark.
Chapter 21：The Tale of the Three Brothers In which Xenophilius Lovegood explains that the symbol is the symbol of the Deathly Hallows, and that the origin of the story is “The Tale of the Three Brothers”, which Hermione then reads aloud. Xenophilius then explains the symbolism of the symbol and discusses the Hallows. Harry, wandering around the house, notices that there is no sign of Luna having been present for weeks, then confronts Xenophilius. Xenophilius then reveals that the Death Eaters took her, and he plans to hold Harry, Ron and Hermione until they arrive so that he can trade them for her. Harry, Ron and Hermione manage to escape while making it clear that Xenophilius wasn’t making up what he told the Death Eaters.
Chapter 22：The Deathly Hallows In which Harry becomes obsessed with the Hallows, particularly the Stone (which he realizes is hidden inside the Snitch that Dumbledore left him). Ron takes over the hunt for Horcruxes. Then Ron finally manages to pick up a Potterwatch broadcast, from which Harry, Ron and Hermione learn that Voldemort is out of the country – and Harry deduces that Voldemort is looking for the Elder Wand. Harry then accidentally says Voldemort’s name aloud, which breaks their protective enchantments, betraying their whereabouts to a gang of Snatchers.
In which Hermione disguises Harry’s appearance with a jinx just before the Snatchers kidnap all three of them and take them to Malfoy Manor. Unfortunately, the Snatchers recognize Hermione and find the sword, so the subsequent questioning at Malfoy Manor soon takes a grim turn – Hermione is tortured by Bellatrix, who wants to know how they got the sword. Harry uses the broken two-way mirror to ask for help, and Dobby appears. Dobby helps Ron and Harry rescue all the captives at the Manor, which includes Disarming Bellatrix and Draco, but in the end Dobby is fatally wounded by Bellatrix.
In which Harry buries Dobby and regains perspective, putting the Horcrux hunt above the Hallows quest, though he realizes where the Elder Wand is and that Voldemort is about to get it as well as that there is probably a Horcrux hidden in the Lestranges’ Gringotts vault. He first asks for Griphook’s help in breaking into Gringotts, then asks Ollivander about the Elder Wand before telling the others that Voldemort is stealing the Elder Wand from Dumbledore’s grave.
In which Griphook agrees to help break into Gringotts in exchange for the sword, which he considers to be rightfully goblin property, and Harry and Ron agree in bad faith, planning to retain it until the Horcrux hunt is over. Lupin arrives to announce the birth of his son and to ask Harry to be godfather, and Bill takes Harry aside in the confusion to warn Harry against breaking faith with goblins.
In which, plans and preparations being complete, Griphook accompanies Harry, Ron and Hermione to Gringotts, hiding with Harry under the Cloak while Hermione poses as Bellatrix and Ron assumes a false identity. By using various spells to interfere with the minds of Gringotts staff members, they manage to reach the level of the Lestranges’ vault before various defences are set off against them. They manage to obtain the cup from the vault, then escape by releasing the dragon guarding the most secure vaults and helping it break out.
Chapter 27：The Final Hiding Place In which Harry, Ron and Hermione spend most of the day riding the dragon, only to get away from it near sunset. Harry has a vision of the theft being reported to Voldemort, and realizes that they are running out of time – Voldemort now knows that they are after Horcruxes, and they have to get to the Hogwarts Horcrux before he does. In which Harry, Ron, and Hermione return to Hogsmeade, are pursued by Death Eaters, and are rescued by Aberforth Dumbledore, who advises them to give up their quest, and explains why he doesn’t blindly trust his late brother’s judgement by telling them the true story of the life and death of Ariana Dumbledore.
In which Neville escorts Harry, Ron, and Hermione through the passageway from the Hog’s Head to the Room of Requirement, where Dumbledore’s Army recaps the situation in Hogwarts and the Ravenclaws tell Harry about Ravenclaw’s diadem. Luna escorts Harry to Ravenclaw Tower to look at its representation on Ravenclaw’s statue, and Alecto Carrow ambushes them in the Ravenclaw common room.
Chapter 30：The Sacking of Severus Snape In which the Carrows are tied up, Voldemort learns of both the theft of the locket Horcrux and Harry’s arrival in Ravenclaw Tower, Snape takes a short break, McGonagall rouses the castle, and many alumni arrive to help defend Hogwarts from the Death Eaters.
Chapter 31：The Battle of Hogwarts In which McGonagall orders the evacuation of those underage or who do not wish to fight, Voldemort delivers an ultimatum, and Harry learns how Voldemort acquired the diadem. Ron and Hermione return from destroying the cup, and together Harry, Ron and Hermione go to the Room of Requirement to destroy the diadem. There they encounter Draco Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle, but his former henchmen no longer answer to Draco; during the subsequent duel, Crabbe unleashes Fiendfyre, which destroys much of the room’s contents and kills him. Harry, Ron and Hermione escape, rescuing Draco and Goyle in the process. They then encounter Percy and Fred, duelling Death Eaters, only to be caught by an explosion that kills Fred.
In which the battle continues but Voldemort remains with Nagini in the Shrieking Shack, awaiting Harry and brooding on the Elder Wand. He reaches a conclusion about the latter and sends for Snape while the trio make their way to him under the Invisibility Cloak, only to arrive in time to witness Snape’s murder and receive some of his memories as a final message.
In which Harry, using the Pensieve, learns of his mother’s childhood friendship with Severus Snape, that Snape’s worst memory was of how they became estranged, of how Snape became Dumbledore ‘s agent, and that he himself was accidentally made a Horcrux on the night his parents were murdered.
In which Harry, having learned that he himself was turned into a Horcrux when Voldemort killed his parents, goes to keep his appointment with Voldemort in the Forbidden Forest. Along the way, he makes sure that Neville knows about Nagini, then retrieves the Resurrection Stone from the Snitch and uses it. Upon reaching Aragog’s web, where the Death Eaters are now camped, he permits Voldemort to use the Killing Curse on him without attempting to defend himself.
In which Harry awakens in what seems to him to be King’s Cross station, where he encounters a fragment of Voldemort’s soul, now powerless, and Albus Dumbledore, who explains what has just happened. Harry has to choose between going on or going back, and chooses to go back.
Chapter 36：The Flaw in the Plan In which both Harry and Voldemort regain consciousness in the Forest, Harry plays dead, and Hagrid is forced to carry Harry’s body up to the castle, where Voldemort displays him to the defenders in an attempt to break their will to resist. Neville confronts Voldemort, who Body-Binds him and puts the Sorting Hat on him to make a point. Neville pulls Gryffindor’s sword out of the Hat and kills Nagini when Voldemort is distracted by the arrival of the centaurs, the battle resumes, and Voldemort is finally defeated by Harry.
nineteen years after the Battle of Hogwarts, Harry Potter and his friends have grown up and started families of their own. Harry is now married to Ginny Weasley, and they have three children: James, Albus, and Lily. Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger are also married and have two children, Rose and Hugo. The story begins at King's Cross Station, where the families are sending their children off to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry's second son, Albus Severus Potter, is nervous about being sorted into Slytherin, but Harry reassures him that he can choose his own path. Draco Malfoy is also present, seeing off his own son, Scorpius. The epilogue highlights the enduring bonds of friendship and family, and it shows that despite their past, they all look forward to a peaceful future. |
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