The story is narrated by 15 year old Prudence, who has been home educated with her 11 year old sister Grace by their father from a young age. Her family own a bookshop, which has few customers and is in debt. Her father is extremely strict, and controls the sisters and their timid mother. He refuses to allow the family to own a television, or allow the girls to read magazines.
When the education authorities visit the family, Prudence is forced to attend a tutor for maths lessons. However, she detests the lessons and doesn't return, spending the money instead on items her father would forbid - paints, teenage magazines, chocolate and revealing underwear. A few weeks later, Prudence's father discovers that Prudence has been missing her lessons, and becomes furious with her, demanding to know what she did with the money that should have been paid to the tutor. Prudence stands up against her father - something she has rarely done before - and throws the underwear at him before claiming that she hates him. After slapping Prudence, her father suffers a stroke and is taken into hospital. Being unable to teach the girls herself, Prudence's mother sends Prudence and Grace to a local comprehensive school while their father recovers in hospital.
Prudence suddenly realises what it's like to experience a little freedom, but also discovers that regular school life is certainly not what she had expected, and she quickly grows a distaste for it. Despite having trouble fitting in with most of her classmates, Prudence makes friends with a boy named Toby, who is described by Prue as one of the few boys in her class who is "remotely good-looking", and is popular and adored by the girls. He is attracted to Prue because he thinks she is different from the other girls in their year, but Prue has little interest in Toby, and the only reason she befriends him is because he slightly resembles Prue's 'imaginary friend, Tobias. But then Prue meets Mr. Raxberry, (nicknamed 'Rax'), her kind, young and handsome art teacher, who she finds is one of the only people she can talk to. Prue and Rax bond over art lessons, and soon he asks her to babysit for his young children while he and his wife have a night out on a Friday. This becomes a regular 'date' and Prue always looks forward for the ten minutes they have alone together as he drives her home. As her feelings for Rax develop, she begins to realise that perhaps he feels the same way about her. One night, on the way back from babysitting, the pair kiss and Prue begins to fantasise how she could spend the rest of her life with Rax even though she knows it is unrealistic, and how they could have babies together and have a happy life. When a classmate overhears Prue confessing her love to Rax and sharing a hug with him the headmistress quizzes her about their relationship. When Prue and Rax say it is just a friendship between teacher and pupil Prue is asked to leave the school and said she will be provided a place at a local private school. Rax is allowed to remain at his post as art teacher of the school if he refrains from seeing Prue. However as Prue walks home that evening with her sister, Rax picks her up in his car and the pair say their final goodbyes. Prue continues to fantisise about Rax and the book ends with her daydreaming about strolling along the seashore with him.
Friday, 6 March 2009
Candyfloss
The storyline focuses on Floss, a girl of about 10 who's parents are divorced. Floss lives with her mum on weekdays and visits her dad on weekends. The story starts off with Floss's birthday and her mother and step-father are wishing her a happy birthday. Floss gets a number of presents and her last present is a big surprise. Steve (Floss's stepfather) has got a new job in Sydney and the family's moving there! But Floss is torn between two choices: go with her mother or stay home with her father. She decides to stay with her father. Her mother doesn't agree with this choice at first, and says "a girl's place to be is with her mother", and although Floss does want to go with her mother, she doesn't want her father to be lonely as she knows that business at her Dad's cafe isn't going well and knows he will be shut down sooner or later. But her father loses his cafe and they lose their home. One of the customers, Billy the Chip, offers his house while he goes to Australia to visit his son. Floss is getting teased by two girls and her ex-best friend, Margot, Judy and Rhiannon. But with Rose, Susan (Floss's new best friend) and their fairground pals' help, they manage to succeed.
Cookie
Despite her name, Beauty Cookson is no beauty, that's what she thinks. She's a plain, timid girl who is called Ugly by other girls at school, especially a mean girl called Skye. Worse than the teasing in the playground, though, is the unpredictable criticism from her father. She is frequently berated for breaking any of his fussy house rules, as well as for her lack of looks, confidence and friends, even though she lives in a large house and attends a private school. Beauty adores rabbits, although her father forbids her to have pets. Her favourite television show is "Sam and Lily",a show for young children about a man and his pet rabbit.
She has no friends at all at school. The only girl that is nice to her is Rhona, Skye's best friend. Though Rhona desperately wants to be friends with Beauty, which she reveals one day when Skye is at a dentist appointment. There is also another reasonably nice person at Beauty's school: Beauty's class teacher, Miss Woodhead. Finally, she is invited by Rhona to a birthday party she is holding. During the birthday party, Beauty's dad forces her to wear Corkscrew curls and Skye, Arabella and Emily (Bullies) develop a new nickname for her- Ugly Corkscrew.
Beauty tells her Mum about the teasing and her Mum decides to learn how to bake cookies, even though she is an awful cook, in the hope that Beauty will be given a new nickname, Cookie. Gradually, both Beauty and her mum get the hang of making cookies and become wondorous at it. Her Dad organises tickets for the whole class to see a stage show called 'Brithday Bonanza', with a chauffer driven limosine to escourt them there, and Beauty invites all the girls, including Skye, and decides to give out cookies at the end of the party. Unfortunately, Beauty's dad throws them on the floor and stamps on them until there is nothing but crumbled cookies left. Despite her humiliation, Beauty is determined to be called Cookie
On Beauty's birthday, she is given a grey rabbit, whom she names "Birthday", by Rhona. Beauty gives out the cookies, but Beauty's father destroys them. The birthday starts to become unbearable when, at the show, Beauty is too shy to go onstage [the show is to celebrate people's birthdays], and he shouts at her in the limosine. She tries not to let it bother her, but when she gets home, she learns that he has let Birthday out of his hutch, and Birthday has been killed by a fox.
Dilly has had enough of her husband, tells him she is separating from him and goes away in her car taking Beauty with her. First of all, they go to the first Mrs. Cookson (Avril) who is very nice. She lets them stay for the night until they decide to go on holiday. The holiday resort they choose is called Rabbit Cove, Beauty chooses it due to her craze over rabbits. They find themselves in an idyllic seaside resort run by a man named Mike, who takes Dilly on as a breakfast chef.
Dilly decides to let her husband know they will be returning after summer, despite Beauty's objections, but after he shouts at her and calls her old and "past it", she terminates the call. He tracks them down, and yells at them in front of the customers at the cafe, even going as far as to accuse her of having an affair with Mike and punching him in the nose. This is the last straw, and Dilly firmly refuses to return home. Even though Dilys (nicknamed Dilly) is living with Mike and he hints that he wants her to be his girlfriend. She says no because she wants to be independent. He understands, as he is a kind calm, serene and understanding person.
After summer, Beauty is sent to a new school where she makes friends, and is even asked to go on 'Watchbox', a talent show that Skye really wanted to be on, it also shows Sam and Lily, who Beauty meets on Watchbox. Beauty is reluctant at first, but soon gives in. Lily is pregnant with her own baby rabbits, Sam decides to give Beauty ( now called Cookie at her new school) her own baby rabbit.
She has no friends at all at school. The only girl that is nice to her is Rhona, Skye's best friend. Though Rhona desperately wants to be friends with Beauty, which she reveals one day when Skye is at a dentist appointment. There is also another reasonably nice person at Beauty's school: Beauty's class teacher, Miss Woodhead. Finally, she is invited by Rhona to a birthday party she is holding. During the birthday party, Beauty's dad forces her to wear Corkscrew curls and Skye, Arabella and Emily (Bullies) develop a new nickname for her- Ugly Corkscrew.
Beauty tells her Mum about the teasing and her Mum decides to learn how to bake cookies, even though she is an awful cook, in the hope that Beauty will be given a new nickname, Cookie. Gradually, both Beauty and her mum get the hang of making cookies and become wondorous at it. Her Dad organises tickets for the whole class to see a stage show called 'Brithday Bonanza', with a chauffer driven limosine to escourt them there, and Beauty invites all the girls, including Skye, and decides to give out cookies at the end of the party. Unfortunately, Beauty's dad throws them on the floor and stamps on them until there is nothing but crumbled cookies left. Despite her humiliation, Beauty is determined to be called Cookie
On Beauty's birthday, she is given a grey rabbit, whom she names "Birthday", by Rhona. Beauty gives out the cookies, but Beauty's father destroys them. The birthday starts to become unbearable when, at the show, Beauty is too shy to go onstage [the show is to celebrate people's birthdays], and he shouts at her in the limosine. She tries not to let it bother her, but when she gets home, she learns that he has let Birthday out of his hutch, and Birthday has been killed by a fox.
Dilly has had enough of her husband, tells him she is separating from him and goes away in her car taking Beauty with her. First of all, they go to the first Mrs. Cookson (Avril) who is very nice. She lets them stay for the night until they decide to go on holiday. The holiday resort they choose is called Rabbit Cove, Beauty chooses it due to her craze over rabbits. They find themselves in an idyllic seaside resort run by a man named Mike, who takes Dilly on as a breakfast chef.
Dilly decides to let her husband know they will be returning after summer, despite Beauty's objections, but after he shouts at her and calls her old and "past it", she terminates the call. He tracks them down, and yells at them in front of the customers at the cafe, even going as far as to accuse her of having an affair with Mike and punching him in the nose. This is the last straw, and Dilly firmly refuses to return home. Even though Dilys (nicknamed Dilly) is living with Mike and he hints that he wants her to be his girlfriend. She says no because she wants to be independent. He understands, as he is a kind calm, serene and understanding person.
After summer, Beauty is sent to a new school where she makes friends, and is even asked to go on 'Watchbox', a talent show that Skye really wanted to be on, it also shows Sam and Lily, who Beauty meets on Watchbox. Beauty is reluctant at first, but soon gives in. Lily is pregnant with her own baby rabbits, Sam decides to give Beauty ( now called Cookie at her new school) her own baby rabbit.
My Sister Jodie
The story focuses around two sisters, Pearl and Jodie. Pearl, the younger sister, is eleven and is quiet, shy and intelligent. Jodie is fourteen and is loud and outgoing Their parents both get jobs at a boarding school called Melchester College, with a flat included. They sell their old home and go to the school. Pearl makes lots of new friends there. Harley, an incredibly tall boy of Jodie's age, is one, another intelligent person, and they meet when she stumbles across the Badger Set he watches. Mrs. Wilberforce, wife of the headmaster, is another. Mrs. Wilberforce is confined to a wheelchair after she fell down the stairs inside a tower at the school. Jodie and Pearl are anxious to discover the mystery of Melchester College. After stealing the keys from their dad's workbelt, Jodie and Pearl uncover secrets from the attics and at long last find the locked door to the tower. When they find the right key, Jodie and Pearl and Harley, realise that the tower was Mrs Wilberforce's room. Full of books and antique items, their discoveries must be kept a secret. When school boarders arrive, Pearl makes friends with Harriet, Freya, Clarissa and Sheba. At Halloween, Jodie tells the full time boarder children Zeph, Dan and Sakura about the whispering white witch.[3] Mr Wilberforce makes Jodie stand in front of the school to tell everyone there is absolutely no such thing as ghosts. So to make the children hundred percent not believe in ghosts, Jodie stands at the window of the tower room on Bonfire Night. To pull of the white veil to show her signature purple hair, Jodie pulls a little too much and falls out the window to her death. The last chapter of the book mainly focuses on Pearl's new little sister May
Kiss
Plot
Sylvie and Carl have been friends since they were tiny. They have called themselves boyfriend and girlfriend and when they were little, they said that they were going to get married. As they start high school, Sylvie drifts further and further away from Carl. When Sylvie and Carl are invited to Miranda Holbien's party, they play a game of spin the bottle. Carl avoids having to kiss Sylvie and Sylvie realizes that his feelings have changed. Carl invites Miranda, Sylvie and a boy called Paul to go bowling with him. Sylvie doesn't like Paul and is surprised when Carl tells Sylvie that he wanted to impress Paul by bowling. On Carl's birthday, Miranda, Paul, Sylvie and Carl go to Kew Gardens since Carl is obsessed with glass. They all get lost while playing hide-and-seek. Miranda and Paul went on the train so Carl and Sylvie go with Carl's mother, Jules. Carl refused to see anyone after that night and later tells Sylvie that he's gay. Carl gets teased and picked on at school. Later, Sylvie goes to find Carl and sees the Glass Hut (where Carl keeps his glass collection) is ruined with glass everywhere. Sylvie gets cut and tells Jules, Mick (Carl's dad) and Jake (Carl's older brother) about the Glass Hut. They see Carl in the bushes all cut from smashing all the glass. He cut all his fingers and wrist and needed lots of stitches. In the Glass Hut, Carl and Sylvie sees all the damage. Sylvie thinks that Carl won't feel the same about her but he kisses her, saying that he will always love her.
Main Characters
Sylvie is the main character of the book, she is not very popular at school and only really tends to hang around with one person: a shy, boring girl named Lucy. Sylvie is deeply in love with her best friend and next door neighbour Carl. She lives with her mum and an old lodger named Miss Miles.
Carl is Sylvie's best friend and next door neighbour. He has a love of all things glass. He does not go to the same school as Sylvie. Far less masculine than both his dad or brother, he is often quiet and subdued and can have strong bouts of depression. At the end of the novel he implies that he might be gay.
Miranda is bouncy, confident, and very full-on, Miranda is the epitome of all things daring. Although she is very young, she possesses a high degree of sexiness and is desired by many boys in and around her neighbourhood. Miranda is one of Sylvie's closest friends. She likes to show her breasts
Paul is Carl's new best friend, who is apparently extremely good at football and good looking. He doesn't appear to be a very good friend at all, as he takes advantage of both Carl and Miranda.
Jake is Carl's brother. He is part of a Gothic band and is secretly in love with Sylvie, although everyone believes it's Miranda he has a crush on. He is considered very dumb
Minor Characters
Lucy is shy, very innocent and well behaved. Lucy is one of Sylvie's only friends at school. However, deep down Sylvie has only ever been using Lucy to fill the gap left by the absence of Carl, who attends a different school - she doesn't particularly like Lucy, who is boring and prim and often condescending. She is mad about chocolate.
Sylvie's Mum is Sylvie's Mum (obviously)and is also Gerry's girlfriend. She often worries about her daughter, Sylvie, and often says she wants to cancel her dates with Gerry for her. Unlike most, Sylvie's Mum believes that Sylvie and Carl will never fall in love
Jules is Carl's Mum, who is also mother to Jake, and wife of Mick. She worries about her son, and always believed her son Carl was gay
Mick is Carl's Dad, who is completely against Carl being gay. He likes sport and it is said that he likes Jake more then Carl, especially after Carl comes out of the closet
Miss Miles is Sylvie and Sylvie's Mum's lodger who is in her seventies. She is said to have no love life, although she was once in love. She is very insecure, and is like a grandmother to Sylvie
Gerry is Sylvie's Mum's boyfriend, who Sylvie doesn't like
Sylvie and Carl have been friends since they were tiny. They have called themselves boyfriend and girlfriend and when they were little, they said that they were going to get married. As they start high school, Sylvie drifts further and further away from Carl. When Sylvie and Carl are invited to Miranda Holbien's party, they play a game of spin the bottle. Carl avoids having to kiss Sylvie and Sylvie realizes that his feelings have changed. Carl invites Miranda, Sylvie and a boy called Paul to go bowling with him. Sylvie doesn't like Paul and is surprised when Carl tells Sylvie that he wanted to impress Paul by bowling. On Carl's birthday, Miranda, Paul, Sylvie and Carl go to Kew Gardens since Carl is obsessed with glass. They all get lost while playing hide-and-seek. Miranda and Paul went on the train so Carl and Sylvie go with Carl's mother, Jules. Carl refused to see anyone after that night and later tells Sylvie that he's gay. Carl gets teased and picked on at school. Later, Sylvie goes to find Carl and sees the Glass Hut (where Carl keeps his glass collection) is ruined with glass everywhere. Sylvie gets cut and tells Jules, Mick (Carl's dad) and Jake (Carl's older brother) about the Glass Hut. They see Carl in the bushes all cut from smashing all the glass. He cut all his fingers and wrist and needed lots of stitches. In the Glass Hut, Carl and Sylvie sees all the damage. Sylvie thinks that Carl won't feel the same about her but he kisses her, saying that he will always love her.
Main Characters
Sylvie is the main character of the book, she is not very popular at school and only really tends to hang around with one person: a shy, boring girl named Lucy. Sylvie is deeply in love with her best friend and next door neighbour Carl. She lives with her mum and an old lodger named Miss Miles.
Carl is Sylvie's best friend and next door neighbour. He has a love of all things glass. He does not go to the same school as Sylvie. Far less masculine than both his dad or brother, he is often quiet and subdued and can have strong bouts of depression. At the end of the novel he implies that he might be gay.
Miranda is bouncy, confident, and very full-on, Miranda is the epitome of all things daring. Although she is very young, she possesses a high degree of sexiness and is desired by many boys in and around her neighbourhood. Miranda is one of Sylvie's closest friends. She likes to show her breasts
Paul is Carl's new best friend, who is apparently extremely good at football and good looking. He doesn't appear to be a very good friend at all, as he takes advantage of both Carl and Miranda.
Jake is Carl's brother. He is part of a Gothic band and is secretly in love with Sylvie, although everyone believes it's Miranda he has a crush on. He is considered very dumb
Minor Characters
Lucy is shy, very innocent and well behaved. Lucy is one of Sylvie's only friends at school. However, deep down Sylvie has only ever been using Lucy to fill the gap left by the absence of Carl, who attends a different school - she doesn't particularly like Lucy, who is boring and prim and often condescending. She is mad about chocolate.
Sylvie's Mum is Sylvie's Mum (obviously)and is also Gerry's girlfriend. She often worries about her daughter, Sylvie, and often says she wants to cancel her dates with Gerry for her. Unlike most, Sylvie's Mum believes that Sylvie and Carl will never fall in love
Jules is Carl's Mum, who is also mother to Jake, and wife of Mick. She worries about her son, and always believed her son Carl was gay
Mick is Carl's Dad, who is completely against Carl being gay. He likes sport and it is said that he likes Jake more then Carl, especially after Carl comes out of the closet
Miss Miles is Sylvie and Sylvie's Mum's lodger who is in her seventies. She is said to have no love life, although she was once in love. She is very insecure, and is like a grandmother to Sylvie
Gerry is Sylvie's Mum's boyfriend, who Sylvie doesn't like
Harry Potter and the deathly hallows
Plot
While in the Malfoy Manor, Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters plan to ambush Harry Potter when he leaves the Dursley home with the Order of the Phoenix for the final time. Voldemort takes Lucius Malfoy's wand, in the hope that it will be able to kill Harry.
Meanwhile, Harry disposes of things he would not need, as he does not plan to go back to study at Hogwarts – notably, his Quidditch robes. Indeed, Harry would not have this year an occasion to play Quidditch; however, on three key occasions – getting hold of the Hufflepuff Cup and the Ravenclaw Diadem, and during the final fight with Voldemort – the "unerring skill of the Seeker" would be vitally useful to him in snatching an object out of the air.
Members of the Order of the Phoenix are ambushed by Death Eaters as they attempt to escort Harry from the Dursleys' to a safe house by broomstick using decoys. Harry's wand, seemingly of its own accord, countercurses Voldemort when Harry is attacked, allowing him to narrowly escape. Hedwig and Mad-Eye Moody are killed, and George Weasley loses an ear.
The trio go to The Burrow where Minister for Magic Rufus Scrimgeour arrives to give Harry, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger bequests from Albus Dumbledore's will. Ron receives the Deluminator, Hermione is left a children's book, The Tales of Beedle the Bard, and Harry inherits Godric Gryffindor's Sword and a Snitch, bearing the mysterious phrase "I open at the close". The Ministry claimed the sword to be “an important historical artefact”, however, and kept it.
At Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour's wedding reception, a Patronus, conjured by Kingsley Shacklebolt arrives, announcing that the Ministry of Magic has fallen under Voldemort's control, and that Ministry officials, and Death Eaters are on their way to The Burrow at that moment. As the wedding dissolves into chaos, Death Eaters approach, and Harry, Ron, and Hermione disapparate to Tottenham Court Road, where they hide in an empty cafe to plan their next move. However, the Death Eaters find them there and they narrowly escape. They eventually find and take refuge in 12 Grimmauld Place.
While at Grimmauld Place, Harry deduces that Sirius Black's brother Regulus was the "R.A.B" who removed the Locket Horcrux from the sea cave.[HP6] Hermione recalls seeing a locket whilst cleaning the house, and they discover that the house-elf Kreacher had stolen the locket from the items to be thrown out. Kreacher tells them that he had placed the Locket Horcrux in the cave as ordered by Voldemort, and Regulus later died after retrieving it and deceiving Voldemort. With the help of Kreacher and Mundungus Fletcher they learn that the locket is now in Dolores Umbridge's possession. The trio successfully infiltrate the Ministry of Magic and recover the locket. However, Grimmauld Place is compromised when they return, forcing them to flee to the countryside.
The trio begin to travel the country, looking for Horcruxes and the means to destroy them. Overhearing a discussion between Griphook the goblin, Dean Thomas, Ted Tonks, Dirk Cresswell, and Gornuk (another goblin), the trio learn that the Sword of Gryffindor that is held at Hogwarts is a fake. Harry decides to find the real sword that can destroy the Horcruxes; some time after this Ron and Harry argue over Harry's lack of a plan, after which Ron abandons the group. Harry and Hermione search for the sword in Godric's Hollow, as well as Harry's old house. While looking at the house, Harry and Hermione are beckoned by Bathilda Bagshot into her home. Knowing something is not right, Harry follows her upstairs, where she transforms into Nagini. Voldemort himself appears almost immediately after. Hermione casts a Blasting Curse that ricochets around the room, facilitating their escape, but also irreparably damaging Harry's wand. When Voldemort realises they have escaped him, his fury is so strong that Harry is forced to see Voldemort's memory of the night he had killed Harry's parents, leading Harry to fall unconscious.
Hermione apparates Harry to the Forest of Dean. While he is on watch, a silver doe-shaped Patronus leads Harry to an icy pond containing the real Sword of Gryffindor. As Harry dives into the freezing water to retrieve it, the locket Horcrux starts strangling him. Ron, who was guided back to the pair by the Deluminator that Dumbledore gave him, saves him. Ron recovers the sword and destroys the locket with it. Ron warns that Voldemort's name is now Tabooed: speaking it reveals the speaker's location to Voldemort and the Death Eaters.
The mysterious recurring symbol is revealed to represent the legendary Deathly Hallows.The trio learn from Xenophilius Lovegood that the symbol they have encountered represents the three Deathly Hallows: the Elder Wand, the Resurrection Stone, and the Invisibility Cloak. Xenophilius tells them about the Deathly Hallows and the story of the Three Brothers who each took respective "gifts" from Death. When pressed about Luna's absence, Lovegood admits that Death Eaters abducted her. Hoping for Luna's return, he has alerted Death Eaters of the trio's whereabouts, but the trio escape. Shortly after this escape, Harry figures out that the Invisibility Cloak is one of the Deathly Hallows.
Soon after, Harry accidentally uses the name of Voldemort, and the trio are captured by a gang of Snatchers, led by one of Voldemort's followers and taken to Malfoy Manor, where they join the imprisoned Luna, Dean, Mr Ollivander, and Griphook. Finding Gryffindor's Sword among the trio's possessions, Bellatrix Lestrange fears they have broken into her Gringotts vault, and tortures Hermione for information. Help arrives in the form of Dobby, who apparates into the cellar and rescues Luna, Dean and Ollivander. This attracts the attention of Lucius Malfoy, who summons Wormtail to the cellar to check on the prisoners. As he enters the cellar, Harry and Ron attack Wormtail.[HP4] Harry reminds Wormtail of his life debt after Harry saved his life.[HP3] Wormtail hesitates and is subsequently strangled to death by his own silver hand for his betrayal. Harry and Ron rush upstairs to rescue Hermione; Ron disarms Bellatrix and Harry takes Draco Malfoy's wand. Dobby reappears, and they disapparate to Bill and Fleur's Shell Cottage; Dobby is struck by Bellatrix's knife during the escape, and dies afterwards. Voldemort, having been alerted to Harry being captured, arrives at Malfoy Manor almost immediately after Harry escapes and tortures the remaining Death Eaters. He then leaves them, goes to Hogwarts, and takes the Elder Wand from Dumbledore's tomb.
At the cottage, Ollivander confirms the Elder Wand's existence and says that a wand can transfer allegiance if its owner is defeated or disarmed. Ollivander adds a caveat: although the Elder Wand is unbeatable, its master is not. Bellatrix's behaviour convinces the trio that another Horcrux is hidden in the Lestrange vault. Aided by Griphook, they penetrate Gringotts' defences and retrieve Hufflepuff's Cup, although they lose the sword to Griphook in the process. The trio escape Gringotts on the back of a guard dragon. Voldemort is then informed of the theft of the cup, and realises that his Horcruxes are being destroyed; through his mental connection to Harry, he inadvertantly reveals that another Horcrux is hidden at Hogwarts.
In Hogsmeade, Aberforth Dumbledore is able to smuggle the trio out of Hogsmeade and into Hogwarts. Harry alerts everyone in Hogwarts of Voldemort's imminent arrival. Luna Lovegood suggests that the fifth Horcrux could be Ravenclaw's lost diadem. Harry recalls seeing the diadem in the Room of Requirement when he hid his Potions book there the previous year. Meanwhile, Hermione destroys the Cup Horcrux with a basilisk fang. Various allies of Harry gather in the school, where the Battle of Hogwarts commences. In the Room of Requirement, Ron mentions that the house elves are still in the kitchens and in danger, whereupon Hermione runs over to Ron and kisses him.
While the trio are in the Room of Requirement, Draco Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle attack them. Crabbe mishandles the powerful Fiendfyre spell, killing himself and destroying the diadem, but the others escape unharmed.
During the battle, several of the Weasley brothers are duelling members of the Ministry of Magic. Percy and Fred are duelling the corrupted Minister Pius Thicknesse, when an explosion rocks the corridor, shattering one wall and killing Fred instantly.
Harry catches a glimpse of Voldemort's mind again, and it leads the trio to the Shrieking Shack. Here they witness Voldemort kill Snape, believing it will make him the Elder Wand's master. Voldemort leaves the Shack, and the trio approaches the dying Snape. As Snape dies, he gives his memories to Harry that prove Snape's loyalty to Dumbledore, motivated by his lifelong love for Harry's mother Lily. After being cursed by Gaunt's Ring Horcrux, a doomed Dumbledore had ordered Snape to kill him at a strategic time, sparing Draco from carrying out Voldemort's order to murder him. The memories also reveal that Harry himself is a Horcrux; he must die in order to destroy Voldemort.
Resigned to death, Harry leaves to go to Voldemort's camp in the Forbidden Forest, and meets Neville Longbottom, whom he asks to kill Nagini if he gets the chance. Along the way, he realises that the Snitch holds the Resurrection Stone inside it, and is able to retrieve it, whereupon he summons the spirits of his parents, Sirius Black and the recently killed Remus Lupin, who accompany him to Voldemort's camp. Voldemort then casts the Avada Kedavra curse at Harry.
Awakening in an ethereal place that looks to him like King's Cross station, Harry is unsure whether he is alive or dead. Dumbledore appears and explains that Voldemort's Horcrux within Harry has been destroyed. He says that just as Voldemort cannot die while his soul fragments remain, Voldemort cannot kill Harry because he used Harry's blood in his resurrection.[HP4] Voldemort's killing curse instead destroyed the unknown fragment of Voldemort's own soul that lay inside Harry. Harry glimpses a representation of Voldemort's true self: a weeping, deformed child whom Dumbledore describes as "beyond any of our help." Harry is then given the chance to return to the battle, being advised that he could possibly end it once and for all.
Harry revives, but feigns death. Voldemort orders Narcissa Malfoy to check Harry. Doing so, she realises that Harry is alive, and she asks him very quietly if her son Draco is still alive, to which Harry whispers yes. Narcissa, no longer caring about anything but her son, lies to Voldemort, telling him that Harry is dead. Harry is carried to Hogwarts as Voldemort's trophy by the captured Hagrid and is displayed to agonised supporters gathered in the school entrance hall. When Neville Longbottom defies an invitation from Voldemort to join the Death Eaters (due to his pureblood status), the Sorting Hat is thrust onto his head and set aflame.
Grawp, the centaurs, and the giants add to a sudden disturbance caused by reinforcements from Hogsmeade residents and students' families yelling war cries as they spill over the walls of the school. Neville then pulls off the Sorting Hat, draws Gryffindor's Sword from it, and decapitates Nagini with a single stroke, destroying the final Horcrux. Harry moves around under his Invisibility Cloak and lends aid throughout the ensuing battle, as his supporters rally to defy Voldemort and the Death Eaters one last time. More reinforcements arrive in the form of the house-elves of Hogwarts, whipped into a fighting frenzy by Kreacher, they attack the Death Eaters with knives. Eventually, the battle pares down to Voldemort simultaneously dueling Professors McGonagall and Slughorn, as well as Kingsley Shacklebolt. Likewise, Bellatrix engages Hermione, Ginny and Luna in a fight. After Bellatrix tries to strike Ginny with a Killing Curse, she is confronted and killed by Mrs Weasley. Furious at losing his most loyal servant, Voldemort blasts his opponents off their feet. Harry casts a Shield Charm to prevent Voldemort from harming Mrs Weasley. Then, knowing that he is the Elder Wand's true master, Harry finally takes off the Invisibility Cloak and confronts Voldemort. Unable to get Voldemort to even try feeling remorse, which could possibly have saved him, Harry informs Voldemort that when Draco disarmed Dumbledore on the Astronomy Tower, he unknowingly became the Elder Wand's master;[HP6] this allegiance was then transferred to Harry when he won Draco's wand at Malfoy Manor. As with their first duel[HP4], Harry casts Expelliarmus, while Voldemort casts Avada Kedavra. The Elder Wand's allegiance prevents it from harming its Master, and the Killing Curse rebounds off Harry's disarming spell, killing Voldemort, and leaving Harry victorious.
Among the fatalities are Fred Weasley, Remus Lupin, Nymphadora Tonks, Colin Creevey, and fifty other people who died fighting the Death Eaters, as well as Voldemort and Bellatrix. Harry accepts thanks from his supporters and helps to comfort the grieving. He slips away to the Headmaster's Office and is greeted by thunderous applause from the previous Headmasters' portraits. With the help of Dumbledore via his portrait, Harry decides that the Elder Wand should be returned to Dumbledore's tomb, where its power will be extinguished if he (Harry) dies undefeated, that the Stone will be left and forgotten in the Forbidden Forest, and that the Cloak would continue to be a Potter family heirloom. Before returning the Elder Wand to the tomb, Harry uses it to repair his own wand, which was previously thought to have been irreparably damaged. He then looks forward to sleeping in his bed in Gryffindor Tower.
Epilogue
Nineteen years later, Harry and Ginny Weasley are married and have three children: James Sirius, Albus Severus, and Lily Luna. Ron married Hermione and has two children, Rose and Hugo. The families meet at King's Cross station, where a nervous Albus is departing for his first year at Hogwarts. Draco Malfoy and his wife are also there with their son, Scorpius. Harry's godson, Teddy Lupin, is found kissing Victoire Weasley (Bill and Fleur's daughter) in a train carriage. Neville Longbottom is now the Hogwarts Herbology professor and remains friends with the two families. The book ends with these final words: "The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well."
While in the Malfoy Manor, Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters plan to ambush Harry Potter when he leaves the Dursley home with the Order of the Phoenix for the final time. Voldemort takes Lucius Malfoy's wand, in the hope that it will be able to kill Harry.
Meanwhile, Harry disposes of things he would not need, as he does not plan to go back to study at Hogwarts – notably, his Quidditch robes. Indeed, Harry would not have this year an occasion to play Quidditch; however, on three key occasions – getting hold of the Hufflepuff Cup and the Ravenclaw Diadem, and during the final fight with Voldemort – the "unerring skill of the Seeker" would be vitally useful to him in snatching an object out of the air.
Members of the Order of the Phoenix are ambushed by Death Eaters as they attempt to escort Harry from the Dursleys' to a safe house by broomstick using decoys. Harry's wand, seemingly of its own accord, countercurses Voldemort when Harry is attacked, allowing him to narrowly escape. Hedwig and Mad-Eye Moody are killed, and George Weasley loses an ear.
The trio go to The Burrow where Minister for Magic Rufus Scrimgeour arrives to give Harry, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger bequests from Albus Dumbledore's will. Ron receives the Deluminator, Hermione is left a children's book, The Tales of Beedle the Bard, and Harry inherits Godric Gryffindor's Sword and a Snitch, bearing the mysterious phrase "I open at the close". The Ministry claimed the sword to be “an important historical artefact”, however, and kept it.
At Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour's wedding reception, a Patronus, conjured by Kingsley Shacklebolt arrives, announcing that the Ministry of Magic has fallen under Voldemort's control, and that Ministry officials, and Death Eaters are on their way to The Burrow at that moment. As the wedding dissolves into chaos, Death Eaters approach, and Harry, Ron, and Hermione disapparate to Tottenham Court Road, where they hide in an empty cafe to plan their next move. However, the Death Eaters find them there and they narrowly escape. They eventually find and take refuge in 12 Grimmauld Place.
While at Grimmauld Place, Harry deduces that Sirius Black's brother Regulus was the "R.A.B" who removed the Locket Horcrux from the sea cave.[HP6] Hermione recalls seeing a locket whilst cleaning the house, and they discover that the house-elf Kreacher had stolen the locket from the items to be thrown out. Kreacher tells them that he had placed the Locket Horcrux in the cave as ordered by Voldemort, and Regulus later died after retrieving it and deceiving Voldemort. With the help of Kreacher and Mundungus Fletcher they learn that the locket is now in Dolores Umbridge's possession. The trio successfully infiltrate the Ministry of Magic and recover the locket. However, Grimmauld Place is compromised when they return, forcing them to flee to the countryside.
The trio begin to travel the country, looking for Horcruxes and the means to destroy them. Overhearing a discussion between Griphook the goblin, Dean Thomas, Ted Tonks, Dirk Cresswell, and Gornuk (another goblin), the trio learn that the Sword of Gryffindor that is held at Hogwarts is a fake. Harry decides to find the real sword that can destroy the Horcruxes; some time after this Ron and Harry argue over Harry's lack of a plan, after which Ron abandons the group. Harry and Hermione search for the sword in Godric's Hollow, as well as Harry's old house. While looking at the house, Harry and Hermione are beckoned by Bathilda Bagshot into her home. Knowing something is not right, Harry follows her upstairs, where she transforms into Nagini. Voldemort himself appears almost immediately after. Hermione casts a Blasting Curse that ricochets around the room, facilitating their escape, but also irreparably damaging Harry's wand. When Voldemort realises they have escaped him, his fury is so strong that Harry is forced to see Voldemort's memory of the night he had killed Harry's parents, leading Harry to fall unconscious.
Hermione apparates Harry to the Forest of Dean. While he is on watch, a silver doe-shaped Patronus leads Harry to an icy pond containing the real Sword of Gryffindor. As Harry dives into the freezing water to retrieve it, the locket Horcrux starts strangling him. Ron, who was guided back to the pair by the Deluminator that Dumbledore gave him, saves him. Ron recovers the sword and destroys the locket with it. Ron warns that Voldemort's name is now Tabooed: speaking it reveals the speaker's location to Voldemort and the Death Eaters.
The mysterious recurring symbol is revealed to represent the legendary Deathly Hallows.The trio learn from Xenophilius Lovegood that the symbol they have encountered represents the three Deathly Hallows: the Elder Wand, the Resurrection Stone, and the Invisibility Cloak. Xenophilius tells them about the Deathly Hallows and the story of the Three Brothers who each took respective "gifts" from Death. When pressed about Luna's absence, Lovegood admits that Death Eaters abducted her. Hoping for Luna's return, he has alerted Death Eaters of the trio's whereabouts, but the trio escape. Shortly after this escape, Harry figures out that the Invisibility Cloak is one of the Deathly Hallows.
Soon after, Harry accidentally uses the name of Voldemort, and the trio are captured by a gang of Snatchers, led by one of Voldemort's followers and taken to Malfoy Manor, where they join the imprisoned Luna, Dean, Mr Ollivander, and Griphook. Finding Gryffindor's Sword among the trio's possessions, Bellatrix Lestrange fears they have broken into her Gringotts vault, and tortures Hermione for information. Help arrives in the form of Dobby, who apparates into the cellar and rescues Luna, Dean and Ollivander. This attracts the attention of Lucius Malfoy, who summons Wormtail to the cellar to check on the prisoners. As he enters the cellar, Harry and Ron attack Wormtail.[HP4] Harry reminds Wormtail of his life debt after Harry saved his life.[HP3] Wormtail hesitates and is subsequently strangled to death by his own silver hand for his betrayal. Harry and Ron rush upstairs to rescue Hermione; Ron disarms Bellatrix and Harry takes Draco Malfoy's wand. Dobby reappears, and they disapparate to Bill and Fleur's Shell Cottage; Dobby is struck by Bellatrix's knife during the escape, and dies afterwards. Voldemort, having been alerted to Harry being captured, arrives at Malfoy Manor almost immediately after Harry escapes and tortures the remaining Death Eaters. He then leaves them, goes to Hogwarts, and takes the Elder Wand from Dumbledore's tomb.
At the cottage, Ollivander confirms the Elder Wand's existence and says that a wand can transfer allegiance if its owner is defeated or disarmed. Ollivander adds a caveat: although the Elder Wand is unbeatable, its master is not. Bellatrix's behaviour convinces the trio that another Horcrux is hidden in the Lestrange vault. Aided by Griphook, they penetrate Gringotts' defences and retrieve Hufflepuff's Cup, although they lose the sword to Griphook in the process. The trio escape Gringotts on the back of a guard dragon. Voldemort is then informed of the theft of the cup, and realises that his Horcruxes are being destroyed; through his mental connection to Harry, he inadvertantly reveals that another Horcrux is hidden at Hogwarts.
In Hogsmeade, Aberforth Dumbledore is able to smuggle the trio out of Hogsmeade and into Hogwarts. Harry alerts everyone in Hogwarts of Voldemort's imminent arrival. Luna Lovegood suggests that the fifth Horcrux could be Ravenclaw's lost diadem. Harry recalls seeing the diadem in the Room of Requirement when he hid his Potions book there the previous year. Meanwhile, Hermione destroys the Cup Horcrux with a basilisk fang. Various allies of Harry gather in the school, where the Battle of Hogwarts commences. In the Room of Requirement, Ron mentions that the house elves are still in the kitchens and in danger, whereupon Hermione runs over to Ron and kisses him.
While the trio are in the Room of Requirement, Draco Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle attack them. Crabbe mishandles the powerful Fiendfyre spell, killing himself and destroying the diadem, but the others escape unharmed.
During the battle, several of the Weasley brothers are duelling members of the Ministry of Magic. Percy and Fred are duelling the corrupted Minister Pius Thicknesse, when an explosion rocks the corridor, shattering one wall and killing Fred instantly.
Harry catches a glimpse of Voldemort's mind again, and it leads the trio to the Shrieking Shack. Here they witness Voldemort kill Snape, believing it will make him the Elder Wand's master. Voldemort leaves the Shack, and the trio approaches the dying Snape. As Snape dies, he gives his memories to Harry that prove Snape's loyalty to Dumbledore, motivated by his lifelong love for Harry's mother Lily. After being cursed by Gaunt's Ring Horcrux, a doomed Dumbledore had ordered Snape to kill him at a strategic time, sparing Draco from carrying out Voldemort's order to murder him. The memories also reveal that Harry himself is a Horcrux; he must die in order to destroy Voldemort.
Resigned to death, Harry leaves to go to Voldemort's camp in the Forbidden Forest, and meets Neville Longbottom, whom he asks to kill Nagini if he gets the chance. Along the way, he realises that the Snitch holds the Resurrection Stone inside it, and is able to retrieve it, whereupon he summons the spirits of his parents, Sirius Black and the recently killed Remus Lupin, who accompany him to Voldemort's camp. Voldemort then casts the Avada Kedavra curse at Harry.
Awakening in an ethereal place that looks to him like King's Cross station, Harry is unsure whether he is alive or dead. Dumbledore appears and explains that Voldemort's Horcrux within Harry has been destroyed. He says that just as Voldemort cannot die while his soul fragments remain, Voldemort cannot kill Harry because he used Harry's blood in his resurrection.[HP4] Voldemort's killing curse instead destroyed the unknown fragment of Voldemort's own soul that lay inside Harry. Harry glimpses a representation of Voldemort's true self: a weeping, deformed child whom Dumbledore describes as "beyond any of our help." Harry is then given the chance to return to the battle, being advised that he could possibly end it once and for all.
Harry revives, but feigns death. Voldemort orders Narcissa Malfoy to check Harry. Doing so, she realises that Harry is alive, and she asks him very quietly if her son Draco is still alive, to which Harry whispers yes. Narcissa, no longer caring about anything but her son, lies to Voldemort, telling him that Harry is dead. Harry is carried to Hogwarts as Voldemort's trophy by the captured Hagrid and is displayed to agonised supporters gathered in the school entrance hall. When Neville Longbottom defies an invitation from Voldemort to join the Death Eaters (due to his pureblood status), the Sorting Hat is thrust onto his head and set aflame.
Grawp, the centaurs, and the giants add to a sudden disturbance caused by reinforcements from Hogsmeade residents and students' families yelling war cries as they spill over the walls of the school. Neville then pulls off the Sorting Hat, draws Gryffindor's Sword from it, and decapitates Nagini with a single stroke, destroying the final Horcrux. Harry moves around under his Invisibility Cloak and lends aid throughout the ensuing battle, as his supporters rally to defy Voldemort and the Death Eaters one last time. More reinforcements arrive in the form of the house-elves of Hogwarts, whipped into a fighting frenzy by Kreacher, they attack the Death Eaters with knives. Eventually, the battle pares down to Voldemort simultaneously dueling Professors McGonagall and Slughorn, as well as Kingsley Shacklebolt. Likewise, Bellatrix engages Hermione, Ginny and Luna in a fight. After Bellatrix tries to strike Ginny with a Killing Curse, she is confronted and killed by Mrs Weasley. Furious at losing his most loyal servant, Voldemort blasts his opponents off their feet. Harry casts a Shield Charm to prevent Voldemort from harming Mrs Weasley. Then, knowing that he is the Elder Wand's true master, Harry finally takes off the Invisibility Cloak and confronts Voldemort. Unable to get Voldemort to even try feeling remorse, which could possibly have saved him, Harry informs Voldemort that when Draco disarmed Dumbledore on the Astronomy Tower, he unknowingly became the Elder Wand's master;[HP6] this allegiance was then transferred to Harry when he won Draco's wand at Malfoy Manor. As with their first duel[HP4], Harry casts Expelliarmus, while Voldemort casts Avada Kedavra. The Elder Wand's allegiance prevents it from harming its Master, and the Killing Curse rebounds off Harry's disarming spell, killing Voldemort, and leaving Harry victorious.
Among the fatalities are Fred Weasley, Remus Lupin, Nymphadora Tonks, Colin Creevey, and fifty other people who died fighting the Death Eaters, as well as Voldemort and Bellatrix. Harry accepts thanks from his supporters and helps to comfort the grieving. He slips away to the Headmaster's Office and is greeted by thunderous applause from the previous Headmasters' portraits. With the help of Dumbledore via his portrait, Harry decides that the Elder Wand should be returned to Dumbledore's tomb, where its power will be extinguished if he (Harry) dies undefeated, that the Stone will be left and forgotten in the Forbidden Forest, and that the Cloak would continue to be a Potter family heirloom. Before returning the Elder Wand to the tomb, Harry uses it to repair his own wand, which was previously thought to have been irreparably damaged. He then looks forward to sleeping in his bed in Gryffindor Tower.
Epilogue
Nineteen years later, Harry and Ginny Weasley are married and have three children: James Sirius, Albus Severus, and Lily Luna. Ron married Hermione and has two children, Rose and Hugo. The families meet at King's Cross station, where a nervous Albus is departing for his first year at Hogwarts. Draco Malfoy and his wife are also there with their son, Scorpius. Harry's godson, Teddy Lupin, is found kissing Victoire Weasley (Bill and Fleur's daughter) in a train carriage. Neville Longbottom is now the Hogwarts Herbology professor and remains friends with the two families. The book ends with these final words: "The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well."
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