I think the book was great, it deserves to sell these many copies, but I feel the first third of the book was very annoying. It felt way too empty and sad, all it was was people dying and Ron, Hermione and Harry arguing. Harry was acting so bitter, I thought that it would be much longer into the book until they re-united. One of my favorite things about the book is that Snape was behind dumbledore, it almost made me cry.

hey every1! omg did ny1 else cry like a baby when harry leaves dumbys office n goes 2 find voldemort! omg it was soo sad! i was like nooo harry! it was the saddest fing iv ever read cos he was like soo acepting n realised wat had 2 happen!!! yeppie i cried soo much at that wee bitty! n its sooo depressing readin it again cos every time fred is in it im like omg ur gona die!!! agh yeah but in all i loved it! lol

Okay I have some questions about the book: - Was the scary baby at King's Cross Voldemort? - If Harry is the 7th Horcrux, does that mean that Nagini was never a Horcrux? I thought the Horcruxes were: 1.) The ring 2.) the locket 3.) the cup 4.) The diadem 5.) the diary 6.) Harry 7.) Voldemort Why does Nagini fit in? - Still confused about why Harry didn't die and only the Voldemort part of harry did. - What did the cloack and stone provide Harry since he had all 3 of the hallows. Was that why he could kill Voldemort or was it just because he was master of the wand?

Wow that's really awesome and i'm sure that more people are going to buy the book in the coming days!!!!!!!!!!!! =]

btownhockey: The Horcrux hunt went as smooth as it did because Dumbledore left Harry a LOT of clues. He told Harry all of his knowledge, and if he didn't, he left hints everywhere. The ending was very happy in comparison to the last chapter of the book because - oh, maybe, I don't know, it was talking about SEVENTEEN years later? And the Deathly Hallows had a lot of foreshadowing - I mean, the cloak for goodness sake; it's in the first book. Marvalo's ring is in the sixth book. The Elder wand is in the first book. They've been right under our noses; how's that for foreshadowing? Also, you have to consider that the viel was brought in on our first severe death: Sirius'. It introduces death to us once again. It's meant to be a thing of mystery, representing death, so I don't know how you thought you were going to get more stuff on that. And the ending is "all fairytale after a story that has been centered around significant deaths for good causes" simply because of that. It's been a long, grueling fight. We and Harry get our reward seventeen years later, with peace. I really don't understand how that can make you upset. I REALLY don't.

Best book of the series! Thoroughly enjoyable! Moving! Surprising! Exiting! Nostalgic! I actually felt a mixture of sadness and happiness after I read it. I am ever enjoying the movies so much however. Without a doubt Harry Potter will be in my top 3 favorite stories of all time, and right now it is my number 1. I really liked the part that said there are things Voldemort can't understand, like children's stories, and I guess she meant to say anyone loving the story of Harry is young at heart no matter what age. Voldemort is bitterness and hate; Harry is compassion and love. The importance of these themes in the series clearly defines the nature of good and evil represented in the world of Harry Potter and contributes to understanding true morality in order to make better decisions when faced with the challenges present in life. Incidentally, the apparent moral avenues of mainstream religion classifying Harry Potter as "witchcraft", clearly suggests anyone, like Voldemort, with such short and narrow sight, lost the very essence of child like innocence for the sake of dogmatic control; consequently, ignoring the fact even Bible stories are filled with allegorical moral themes, not the least of which are the words quoted in the tombstone of Dumbledore's daughter Ariana: "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." God bless!

Haha, I love in the poll it's all the 'ear' puns. :D

No I dont think Voldermort was ever a horocrux himself...isnt that kinda the point

the deathly hallows were not needed nor were they significant. IN THE END, HARRY DEFEATED THE HORCRUXS. and even if dumbledore did leave the hints, harry is not supposed to be anywhere near as powerful as voldemort so it should be nearly impossible for anyone. They couldve stuck this ending on the 6th book and called it a day.

there was one death that was too much... if that death hadn't happened I could feel so much better... but he'd been there since the beginning... and what will his family do? It overshadows other feelings about the book, at least for now. Odd to be in such greif for a fictional character... but I am.

MichSet: What do you mean they weren't significant? Harry defeats Voldemort with them. It's a tactic to win. So - whaaaat? And for your information, if the hollows weren't stuck in there, the story would have gone even smoother and you would've complained even more fervently.

If you break it down, it sold 5000 copies per minute in the first 24 hours. And that's just in the U.S. alone! Too bad we're not all in London--my friend who lives there said that there is almost no reason to worry about spoilers. Those Brits must respect the reading experience more than our crazy Americans!

Happy Birthday Daniel! woweeee. 8.3 millionnn.

you are right classychloe... i really dotn think tehre wa sa reason fro fred to die... i understand ti was all for a good cause but it was not 100 percent necessary.. If the ending was happy bit the book was more complex, i wouldnt been more than content.

classychloe: I am in grief as well, not for the character's deaths (although I loved mad eye and snape), I am more upset that the series is over. I'm just wondering if Jo will start another series, but than I think, how could you make a world as amazing? Maybe JK will settle down with her kids and not right again, but I miss the fact that I won't be standing in line in two years time waiting for the next Harry Potter book... *sigh*

I'm glad a few things were left out in the open. MPPMarauderGirl said it best. It was a tribute to us. Somethings for us to mull over and discuss.. I mean, if EVERYTHING tied up and had an ending, then it would REALLY be over. Even the absence of the Veil and the Locked Room in the DoM didn't bother me, because they are MYSTERIES, and maybe some things are better left alone. This book was by far my absolute favorite. The deaths tore me apart appropriately, the shipping made me squeal appropriately, and most of all, all the characters were fleshed out as I had wanted (I'd argue Ron was fleshed out so much that even Hermione became a fangirl of his by the end of the book...) Best book in the series. Thank you, Jo, for rocking our world. Heavy metal. --------- I also loved how every spoiler that Jerkyhole posted was fake, all but one. Ha. ha. ha.

Nah there wasnt much about spoilers in our media...at least not that i saw. No one I knew had it spoiled for them

amberurie--- wasnt his b-day yesterday?

Guys I found it. Page 105 in my version. I'm Canadian and I think we get the UK version of the book though, but it'll be around there. TED TONKS is MUGGLEBORN, not a Muggle as I had hoped, and so would be the one to learn magic later in life. Poo.

the deathly hallows were very important! If the deathly hallows were not in the book, then people would have complained it was too simple pr something. how can you say it wasn't important at all...

the_last_hollow: I heard that JK Rowling was going to write a children's story for a younger audience. I would love it if she attempted a different genre or an older age group. Either way, I'm buying it, whatever it is.

hmmm... i dont think that it is necessary a fairy tale happily ever after ending... i mean somehow that kinda of ending feels like they are meant for princes and princesses that havent fought and lost like harry... i think the ending was more of harry finding peace and calmness in his heart after all he had been through.... i was really prepared for harry to die(esp it seems that jo was preparing us for such an ending in the earlier interviews) but i was really glad he didnt... death is never teh had part..living is( or like dumbledore said, "Do not pity the dead. Pity the living") and it is true... how do you live on with the scars, the emptiness... that the people you love are not ard anymore? and it was nice to see him live and find that stillness in his heart...

wotchermuggle; wow nice detective work. but it doesnt really explain how Ted Tonks actually learned his magic.... i mean presumably he didnt go to hogwarts...where did he get a wand...who did he learn from? etc.

The Toronto Star reported that Indigo sold a copy of DH every 3 seconds on the morning of July 21st. Yay!

Awsome book, so I'm not suprised that it broke records.

classychloe, Michset: Exactly. There wasn't any real purpose to Fred's death. It's like reality: why did he die? What did he ever do? That's the whole point. People drop like flies in war and sometimes it seems really unfair but that's the way things blow. And for you, Michset, who called for realism, I thought you would've understood. And once again, about how the plot was so simple... if she added in more elements, maybe they really would've been unnessessary, which contradicts all of you 'day-um that's unessessary' comments.

SHAN1979 ....to answer your question above. There were 7 Horcruxes: 1) Book 2) Ring 3) Cup 4) diadem 5) Locket 6) Nagini 7) Harry........once these were destroyed THEN voldemort could be killed and be gone forever. Voldemort himself in what we saw was not a horcrux. He came back by regenerating himself with Harry's blood, and his father's born. He wasn't a horcrux.

SHAN1979 - I don't think Voldemort knew that some of his soul was in Harry; it just says that it was "blasted out of him" or something like that. Voldemort voluntarily made Nagini a Horcrux though, that's why she's important. And Harry didn't fully die because when Voldemort took his blood back in GoF, he made it so part of Harry was still "tied" to earth, if you will. (That's where Dumbledore's "gleam of triumph" comes in!) Only the part of Voldemort's soul died because it didn't have that protection from Voldemort. Ironic, isn't it? And I think the Cloak and the Stone provided Harry with immeasurable help, but it in the end it was the Deathstick that helped him defeat Voldemort. I myself am not completely clear on the last part when Harry is talking to Voldemort about the Wand; he says Draco is the true master, then he is. I was confused, can someone explain that for me?

As you can tell from my username, this book was the most disappointing thing I've had to endure lately. For all of you who love the book, I have this to say to you: 1. What exacvtly was exciting? The disapparating from one forest to another? 2. The epilogue contained basically NO INFORMATION. There were countless questions left unaswered &if you don't see that .. you're CLEARLY not involved enough in the story line. 3. Lily's eyes? GOOD JOB J.K. ROWLING! 4. She basically insisted that Dumbledore was a jerk & that everything we could have assumed about him being a wonderful man prior to this was wrong 5. The book ended with "All was well" Like a three year old story MY BIGGEST QUESTION TO ALL OF YOU: 6. It took Dumbledore years to discover the location of ONE horcrux (the locket) but it took Harry Potter an EXTREMELY short amount of time to get rid of three of them. I'D LOVE FOR YOU TO EXPLAIN THAT. (HE DID NOT LEAVE HARRY A LOT OF CLUES, HARRY STATES THAT) &if dumbledore knew all of these GREAT CLUES, why didn't he do it himself? PLEASE ANSWER THAT!!!!! 7. Deathly Hallows, was that interesting? CERTAINLY NOT. Boring & pointless? I WOULD SAY SO. IF YOU ENJOYED THIS BOOK - YOU ARE AN IMMATURE 12 YEAR OLD WHO COULDN'T DEAL WITH HARRY DYING. THANKS FOR MAKING THE ENDING HORRIBLE FOR ALL OF US BECAUSE YOU CAN'T DEAL WITH LIFE!

miraine: I have been surfing Jo's site and looking for any clues all over the net to an official announcement for another book, but nothing. Only time will tell. Even though it is hard to create a world as deep as that of the HP series, I don't think she can let her talent go to waste. I don't know her, but I'm hoping that she will not only write a children's book, but other stories. She did not create HP so wonderfully and full-fleshed by dumb luck, you need to be a great writer, I'm sure she can create something as wonderful again, but the question remains: will she?

Finished! I loved the book. But the ending sucked. Really badly. I don't know what happened to make it suck but it did? It was a good book though...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DANIEL RADCLIFFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wow, ihatedeathlyhallows- ITS LIKE I KNOW YOU! jeeze you understand me completely.

IHATEDEATHLYHALLOWS, I think that you need to reread the book to understand the stuff you complained about. I do agree woth you that the ending was dumb though.

classychloe - On the deaths... it's a war. War don't care how funny you are, or if you're married with children, or if you're a puny kid. War don't care about any of that, so any casualty of a character that we love, in a sense, WAS purely for shock value. Not EVERYONE can survive a war, so all the deaths that happened or could have potentially happened made sense. THe only ones I just didn't see happening ever (and was right about) were the foursome. They were just too fully fleshed out to just all of a sudden DIE. On top of the fact that this is a story about love conquering all, it'd suck for ALL of harry's loved ones to die. I'd have chosen death when DD asked me, if that were the case. I'd have lost the will to live.

The Horcruxes are 7... Harry being the 8th horcrux is anything but that.... as Dumbledore explained.. when VM tried to kill Harry, but failed, part of his soul was put into harry. Thus harry and VM one and the same, just two bodies. this is also confirmed when VM comes back to life and Harry's blood is used to revive him. it does so because harry's blood contains traces of VM's blood, but harry rids his body of hate. In King's cross, the little baby is VM's part of harry's soul, the part of VM that was evil within harry. I think that is why when Bella dies VM feels for her because his body is no longer completely full of hate. I also think that this is shown when Nagini dies and he feels so much anger, aka compassion, for his snake. Whereas, when the other horcruxes were defeated, especially the first, he rarely felt at all. the more the horcruxes where destroyed the more voldy would be able to feel. And the Hallows were VERY important because a) the elder wand was needed in order for harry to overcome a wizards duel between him and VM. VM was WAY more powerful than harry. b) the stone was needed to give harry strength when he went to face his death by having support, in almost reality, from the souls of his loved ones, and the cloak has always been a part of the series, and its importance was never really discussed, other than James was its owner and DD had it when harry died. we had to find out its importance, and it allowed the second-last horcrux to be destroyed as well, VM being the final. SO SMART!

To all the haters, if you didn't like the book there is no need to be mad at other people for not liking it, nobody cares if you don't like it. That is your opinion, you have the right to an opinion. Please stop posting ignorant comments, there are better things to do. What I just wrote probably makes no difference to them , so I ask everybody to please ignore them, as they are in desperate need of attention.

TELL ME HOW HARRY DEFEATED ALL THE HORCRUXES IN A YEAR WHEN IT TOOK DUMBLEDORE YEARS TO FIND THEM, PLEASE! furthermore, if dumbledore left harry so many clues .. why couldn't he do it himself? NO ONE HAS BEEN ABLE TO ANSWER ME, BECAUSE DEATHLY HALLOWS WAS STUPID& YOU ALL KNOW IT

ok draco was the true owner of the elder wand because he disarmed dumbledore when he entered the top of the astronomy tower. therefore he had fair and square "won" dumbledore's wand from him but then harry took draco's wand rightfully so the elder wand had to now belong to harry. and neways he killed voldemort to get it.

you know i don't get how some people think. some people really need to read between the lines and think about the story properly before saying certain deaths were uncalled for. those who are saying, dobby, fred, moody, snape etc shouldn't have died must really have a blind eye. i am not saying this with insult nor directing this at any particualr people at all, but i ask for you all to read inbetween the lines and think about it. it is a war, all fo the people on the order and at hogwarts aren't going to live because they are good and the main characters! It is a war, in a war anything can happen. people die, it is real. If all fo the main characters survived, it would be completely unreal. Characters like severus are at peace, if you recall in severu's memories he says he wants to die, he doesn't want to live because of lily is dead, but he keeps going to protect her son. Severus deserves some peace after what he has done. Not everyone was going to survive, and you should have known that. I ask for you to think about the story before making idiotic complaints saying how certain parts were useless. JKR wouldn't have put anything in the last book that would have been completely useless to the plot or that wouldn't have tied in witht he rest fo the books and the story. those who blindly hate it, re read it! you have comeely turned a blind eye to it. because it is not what you wanted, you have convinced yourself to hate it and haven't actually payed proper attention to it at all! EVERYTHING in the book was there for a reason, the deathly hallows, the deaths, all of it was relevant otherwise it wouldn't have been included! It sickens me and angers me how people can be so blind, and not actually stop to think about it at all! It is an amazing book and i love it!!!!!!!

I think we need to have this re-writen, I think Snape should be the Head Master, and I beleave that ron, harry ginny and hermine should all be aurors. there needs to be a grand wedding for them well you will see... I have stared the re-writing myself. after all she did take some of my ideas off a fan site in order of the phoenix.... marietta...thats my last name JO shame on you

WHY THE DEATHLY HALLOWS ARE IMPORTANT: When Voldemort tries to kill Harry, Harry already possesses the 3 hallows, so isn't he the defeater of death by having all three? Wasn't that the purpose of DD trying to find them all? Isn't that how Harry survived Voldemort? Yes Voldemort killed the part of himself in harry but wasn't that because Harry couldn't be touched because of having the 3 Hallows? Thoughts appreciated! victory_m agic07....TED TONKS AND HIS SCHOOLING: Do we know that Ted didn't go to Hogwarts? I know nothing of this at all, I don't think it was mentioned? It must not be important information then? HORCRUXES AND VOLDEMORT: I don't think Voldemort was a horcrux. All this time it's been the shredded Voldemort gaining strength, and gaining his fully body back through the spells and blood of Harry (bone of V. father too) at the grave in GOF. HE WAS NOT A HORCRUX HIMSELF.

Last night as I was going to sleep two things popped into my head. 1-“The Wand Chooses the Wizard�-in book 5 we learn that Neville’s wand was his fathers when it breaks in the MOM battle and he is worried that his Grandmother will be mad at him. Could this be why Neville was not that great at magic? In DH Jo makes a point that you can use another’s wizard’s wand but it never works as well as when you use the wand that chooses you. Neville never had confidents in his magic because I think he felt he could never be as good as his father and he had all that pressure from his grandmother so the father’s wand never worked well for Neville until Harry gave him some confidence in OOTP. In DH Neville has the confidence and a wand that was truly his alone and boy did Neville come through, a true Gryffindor, and was so strong and I think the wand has a lot to do with it. 2-Choices-I read in someone’s comment (can’t remember where) that they were confused why there was even Deathly Hallows and why book 7 was just not about the hut for Horcruxes. I think this was to show again Harry’s choices in life. The deathly hallows would have served Harry alone given him great powers but may not help the wizarding world. The Horcruxes would give Harry the power to save the wizarding world. Again, it is about the choice we make to either serve our self or others.

the last hallow- get over yourself. your comments are useless.. hence the reason i wont respond to them. try answering ihatedeathlyhallows comments.

1:05 eastern US time, 12 hours after having finished DH, it has finally hit me__or rather, possesed me; intent on ripping apart my insides. It's really over. After 7 years of interrogating enchanted chapter after chapter for information, and digging myself deep into obsession, it is over. It's like the final battle is raging on in my stomach right now. My one and only hope lies in the only book on my shelf that hasn't been reopened since it's 4th re-read, because the other books were the ones I felt I needed to examine more closely: book 1. We can all finally do the one thing being constantly in limbo waiting for new books to be released never allowed us to do: pick up book 1, follow through to book 7, and read the story as one big beautiful epic journey. Thank you so much, from all of us, J.K. Rowling.

This book was by far the best ever! I actually was amazingly happy after I finished, but it's starting to sink in that I'll never open a new book again. Thanks so much, Jo!

IHATEDEATHLYHALLOWS--- bcuz dumbledore new that harry had 2 do it i meanthe prophecy was about HARRY, Voldy tried 2 kill HARRY... and a lot more thingsthat had 2 do with HARRY NOT dumbledore!!!!!!!!!!!!! he cant fight harrys battle 4 him ok? so just stop saying no1 can answer u!!!!!

IHATEDEATHLYHOLLOWS: 1. No, maybe the deaths, the fighting, the scehemes to get the horcruxes, Harry sacrificing himself, the plots, need I continue? 2. The epilogue left us a lot of leeway to continue our obsessive fandom and fanfiction. Like someone said before, it's nice that JK Rowling didn't set it in stone and left it to our imaginations. People constantly contradict Rowling (Sirius is alive! Dumbledore is alive! Remus is gay!) so it's good that she left the ending this way. And she gave us information about Harry's family, which is perfect. The thing that Harry's always wanted is a family, and we're told about that in the epilogue. 3. Lily's eyes were important because Snape saw Lily through Harry. 4. What the heck? No she didn't. At points she had us believe it, but at the end, /especially at King's Cross/, we're told the truth. All I have to say to you is - whaaat? 5. So? What's wrong with "All was well"? Wait, no, I see your point, it would have been better as, "It was June 21st, the fifteenth anniversary of Lord Voldemort's reign, the day he killed Harry Potter and fed his remains to his snake, Nagini. All was not well." 6. No, it took Dumbeldore years to confirm the existence of the horcruxes. He only started taking action recently. Yes, Dumbledore DID leave Harry a lot of clues. He told Harry all of the knowledge that took him years to get, he left Harry clues, etc. And Dumbledore didn't do it himself because, uh, maybe, I don't know, he was killed before he could?! 7. DH was interesting. It wasn't pointless, unless you deem the last book to the HP series pointless. And you know - it's not us that are the immature 12 year olds, it's you, who obviously couldn't deal with Harry living because you created an account that says IHATEDH and are screaming at us and trying to throw stupid insults. Similarly, it's obviously not us that can't deal with life, since you seem half-hysterical with anger.

***** SPOILER********SPOILER*** *****SPOILER******** I'm glad Neville got to chop off the head. He deserved to have a spot in this... and I'm also glad his grandmother finally said she was proud of him.

Oh and IHATEDEATHLYHALLOWS, according to you in order to enjoy this book "YOU ARE AN IMMATURE 12 YEAR OLD WHO COULDN'T DEAL WITH HARRY DYING. THANKS FOR MAKING THE ENDING HORRIBLE FOR ALL OF US BECAUSE YOU CAN'T DEAL WITH LIFE!" Just to let you know, this is my favourite book and I can handle death, considering my dad died when I was 12.