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Harry Potter Deathly Hallows

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The book I read is called Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is written by J.K. Rowling. Here is an example of an in text MLA citation of the book. “Harry Potter is dead… He was nothing, ever, but a boy who relied on others to sacrifice themselves for him!” - (Rowling 730). At the beginning of the book, the story starts off with Snape leaking the date as to when Harry's friends were going to send him to a safer location from the Dursley’s house on Privet Drive so that Voldemort and the Death Eaters couldn’t get to him. The reason as to why Snape gave the date is that he wanted to let Voldemort know so that they could capture Harry while he was being transported to a safer location. As this was happening, …show more content…

When his friends arrive, he learns that Moody and George Weasley, Harry's friends, were killed during the attack. Harry is very distraught at this time, therefore, has visions of Voldemort interrogating a wand maker for the purpose of figuring out how to kill Harry. Over the next couple of hours, Ron, Hermione, and Harry prepare to go on the quest that Dumbledore correlated to them. The quest is to locate and destroy the Horcruxes that contained pieces of Voldemort's soul which made him immortal unless they were destroyed. The Minister of Magic, Rufus Scrimgeour, comes to the Burrow and delivers them some items that were left by Dumbledore, behalf of his will. Harry receives the Snitch he caught in his first Quidditch match, and the Sword of Gryffindor. A device known as a Deluminator is left with Ron. Hermione acquires a book of wizard fairy tales. They don’t know what these particular items mean and what purpose they serve. When days have gone by, Ron's parents are hosting a wedding for the marriage of their son, Bill, to a woman named Fleur Delcour. At the wedding, Harry overhears Ron’s Aunt Muriel telling false rumors about Dumbledore. During the inequitable accusations, Death Eaters interrupt the wedding, due to Voldemort's control of the Ministry of Magic and thus, the wizarding …show more content…

They later camp out in a forest where Harry has another vision of Voldemort. This vision being Voldemort looking for a wand maker and a young man that stole a wand. At one point of time Harry, Ron, and Hermione hear a goblin in the forest talking about the Sword of Gryffindor that Dumbledore owned. That sword is a fake. Ron decides to leave Harry and Hermione and go find the real sword because the real sword can only destroy the Horcruxes. Being abandoned by Ron, Harry and Hermione go to the grave place of Harry’s parents, Godric’s Hollow. There, they are lead into the house of Bathilda Bagshot, hoping that she had the real Sword of Gryffindor. It turns out that she was dead all along and that her corpse was being controlled by Voldemort’s snake, Nagini. Harry and Hermione manage to escape and Harry’s wand was destroyed during the

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