School yearVIIPublished2007-07-21
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Harry, Ron, and Hermione leave school to hunt Horcruxes while the Ministry falls and Snape is made headmaster. The Deathly Hallows — Elder Wand, Resurrection Stone, and Cloak — compete with that quest. Ron destroys the locket, the cup is taken from Gringotts, and the diadem burns at Hogwarts. Snape’s memories show he protected Harry for Lily. Harry walks to his death, returns, and Voldemort’s own curse ends him when the wand will not kill its true master. The epilogue is a September morning nineteen years later.
In this book
Also profiled
- Albus Dumbledore
- Rubeus Hagrid
- Sirius Black
- Fred Weasley
- Remus Lupin
- Ginny Weasley
- George Weasley
- Minerva McGonagall
- Dolores Umbridge
- Alastor Moody
- Arthur Weasley
- Vernon Dursley
- Molly Weasley
- Dobby
- Cornelius Fudge
- Peter Pettigrew
- Dudley Dursley
- Percy Weasley
- Horace Slughorn
- Luna Lovegood
- Kreacher
- Petunia Dursley
- Bill Weasley
- Argus Filch
- Viktor Krum
- Sybill Trelawney
- Fleur Delacour
- Nymphadora Tonks
- Draco Malfoy
- Gregory Goyle
- Vincent Crabbe
- Dean Thomas
- Cho Chang
- Hedwig
- Bellatrix Lestrange
- Bartemius Crouch
- Oliver Wood
- James Potter
- Seamus Finnigan
- Peeves
- Igor Karkaroff
- Crookshanks
- Poppy Pomfrey
- Rufus Scrimgeour
- Lucius Malfoy
- Griphook
- Lavender Brown
- Filius Flitwick
- Mundungus Fletcher
- Rita Skeeter
- Parvati Patil
- Buckbeak
- Lily Potter
- Angelina Johnson
- Quirinus Quirrell
- Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington
- Garrick Ollivander
- Charlie Weasley
- Katie Bell
- Xenophilius Lovegood
- Kingsley Shacklebolt
- Fang
- Fenrir Greyback
- Ernie Macmillan
- Lee Jordan
- Pomona Sprout
- Stan Shunpike
- Phineas Nigellus Black
- Aberforth Dumbledore
- Bathilda Bagshot
- Narcissa Malfoy
- Firenze
- Colin Creevey
- The Fat Lady
- Grawp
- Gellert Grindelwald
- Elphias Doge
- Godric Gryffindor
- Pansy Parkinson
- Mrs. Norris
- Corban Yaxley
- Muriel
- Regulus Arcturus Black
- Alicia Spinnet
- Ariana Dumbledore
- Aragog
- Cuthbert Binns
- Mykew Gregorovitch
- Pigwidgeon
- Tom Marvolo Riddle
- Travers
- Norbert
- Ted Tonks
- Zacharias Smith
- Antonin Dolohov
- Nagini
- Nicolas Flamel
- Marvolo Gaunt
- Dedalus Diggle
- Hannah Abbott
- Hepzibah Smith
- Michael Corner
- Walden Macnair
- Roger Davies
- Augustus Rookwood
- Padma Patil
- Kendra Dumbledore
- Amycus Carrow
- John Dawlish
- Pius Thicknesse
- Avery
- Hestia Jones
- Alecto Carrow
- Bogrod
- The Bloody Baron
- Salazar Slytherin
- Terry Boot
- Florean Fortescue
- Penelope Clearwater
- Teddy Lupin
- Dirk Cresswell
- Andromeda Tonks
- Anthony Goldstein
- Charity Burbage
- Mulciber
- Helena Ravenclaw
- Selwyn
- Thorfinn Rowle
- Mafalda Hopkirk
- Percival Dumbledore
- Reginald Cattermole
- Walburga Black
- Augusta Longbottom
- Rodolphus Lestrange
- Rowena Ravenclaw
- Helga Hufflepuff
- Mary Cattermole
On the timeline
- June–July 1997
Lupin and Tonks marry
Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks marry in the weeks after Dumbledore’s funeral, before the Ministry falls. - Late July 1997
The seven Potters
The protective charm on Privet Drive is about to break. Harry is moved under Polyjuice. Hedwig and Mad-Eye Moody die. George loses an ear. The Ministry is already being taken from within: Yaxley has Pius Thicknesse under the Imperius Curse, and Charity Burbage is murdered. - 1997-07-31
Dumbledore’s will
On Harry’s seventeenth birthday Scrimgeour brings the bequests: the snitch, the sword that the Ministry will not hand over, and the Tales of Beedle the Bard. - 1997-08-01
The wedding, and the Ministry falls
Bill and Fleur marry. The Patronus comes during the reception: Scrimgeour is dead and the Ministry has fallen. The trio flees to Grimmauld Place. - 1997-09-01
Snape is made headmaster
Term opens under Severus Snape. The Carrows teach cruelty as a subject. - 1997-09-02
The Ministry raid
Polyjuiced, the trio enter the Ministry, take the locket from Umbridge, and are forced on the run when their cover breaks. - Autumn 1997
Ron leaves
The locket wears them down. Ron goes. He will come back. - 1997-12
Godric’s Hollow, the sword, and the locket
A trap at the cottage breaks Harry’s wand. Nagini is waiting in Bathilda’s body. Later Snape’s doe leads Harry to the sword in a frozen pool. Ron returns and destroys the locket. Luna is taken from the train to pressure her father. - 1998-03
Malfoy Manor; Dobby dies
The taboo on Voldemort’s name gets them caught. Dobby rescues them and dies on the beach. In the same stretch of weeks Voldemort opens Dumbledore’s tomb and takes the Elder Wand. Xenophilius Lovegood has already tried to trade them for Luna. - 1998-04
Teddy Lupin is born
Teddy Remus Lupin is born in April. Harry is named godfather. His parents have weeks to live. - 1998-05-02
The Battle of Hogwarts
The trio breaks into Gringotts for the cup. At the castle the diadem is destroyed, Neville kills Nagini, and fifty-odd defenders die, among them Fred, Lupin, Tonks, and Colin. Harry walks into the Forest and comes back. Voldemort dies in the Great Hall on 2 May 1998. - 2017-09-01
Nineteen years later
On 1 September 2017 Harry and Ginny send James, Albus, and Lily to the train. Ron and Hermione send Rose and Hugo. Draco sees Scorpius off. Neville teaches. Luna is off studying creatures. The platform is busy and ordinary.