Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (novel): Difference between revisions

* [[Achilles in His Tent]]: Ron. {{spoiler|He tried to come back almost immediately.}}

* [[Afterlife Antechamber]]: {{spoiler|Harry in King's Cross.}}

* [[Anticlimax]]: Many fans agree that the [[Final Battle|final confrontation]] between [[The Chosen One|Harry]] and [[Complete Monster|Lord]] [[Big Bad|Voldemort]] was a bit of a let-down. {{spoiler|Voldemort casts the Killing Curse at Harry with the [[Artifact of Death|Elder Wand]], but since Harry is its true master, the curse backfires and kills Voldemort}}. From a storytelling point of view, the true climax of the novel was when Voldemort "killed" Harry in the forest (and sealed his own fate), everything after that was denouement, but Voldemort did not know that.

** Averted in the film, however, where Harry and Voldemort have an epic duel for five minutes, {{spoiler|with Voldemort flying around all over Hogwarts and Harry holding on for dear life. Then their wands induce [[Call Back|Priori Incantatem]] from each other, and they duel for almost a minute before Neville cuts Nagini in two, which causes Voldemort to disintegrate due to all the Horcruxes being destroyed.}}

** {{spoiler|Not really. It's clear that Voldemort's killing curse is pushed back at him resulting in his death similar to the book.}}

* [[Anti-Villain]]: The Malfoys. At this point, the only thing they want is for the family to survive together. {{spoiler|In fact, the moment they learned that Draco is still alive, they take the opportunity to lie to Voldemort about Harry's fate.}}

* [[And I Must Scream]]: {{spoiler|Voldemort's final fate according to [[Word of God]], as previewed in "King's Cross". He is in the boundary of life and death, never dying, but never living at the same time.}}

* [[Big Lie]]: The Voldemort-controlled Ministry begins pushing the Big Lie that Muggle-born witches and wizards stole their magic from Purebloods, resulting in Squibs, in order to justify the arrest and "disposal" of non-Purebloods.

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|Voldemort is gone once and for all, everyone who fought in the battle is hailed as a hero. Percy, Dudley, Kreacher, and (perhaps) even Malfoy finally make peace with Harry, and for once, a competent Minister of Magic is instated.}} The bad news? Lots of people are dead. Lots. And, annoyingly, a few people who probably deserve death or imprisonment [[Karma Houdini|seem to evade it in the end]] (or, at least, don't have their fates mentioned in the book). It's not a perfect world.

* [[Blood Magic]]: Because Voldemort used Harry's blood to bring himself back to life in ''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (novel)|Goblet of Fire]]'', he's kept Lily's protective enchantment on Harry alive within his rebuilt body.

* [[Book Ends]]: after Harry defeats Voldemort for the first time (when he is but a one-year-old baby) Hagrid brings him to Privet Drive using Sirius' flying motorcycle. Sixteen years later, when the Order gets Harry away from Privet Drive before the blood wards fall, Hagrid is the one that takes Harry away... on Sirius' flying motorcycle.

* [[Fighter, Mage, Thief]]: The Elder Wand (Fighter), the Resurrection Stone (Mage), and the Invisibility Cloak (Thief).

* [[Final Battle]]: And how!

* [[Flirting Under Fire]]: How {{spoiler|Ron and Hermione get together}}.

* [[Foe Yay]]/[[Ho Yay]]: Dumbledore and Grindlewald in the backstory. And canon too, at least on Dumbledore's part.

* [[Follow the White Rabbit]]: The doe Patronus. {{spoiler|It's Snape's, and has the same form as Lily's.}}

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Ginny's "farewell present" to Harry, cut short by Ron's interruption.

** Even though the book's [[Precision F-Strike]] ''technically'' never gets beyond "bitch", Mundungus Fletcher uses the line "That wouldn't have been effing difficult..." "Effing" of course being a self-censored [[Precision F-Strike]]. Ron also uses this a few chapters later, and Vernon Dursley had used it in the fifth book.

* [[High Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Narcissa Malfoy}}

* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]:

** Remember how Voldemort got so evil that {{spoiler|he created an accidental Horcrux in Harry's scar}}? Hell, remember the Schrodinger's Prophecy he could've chosen to ''ignore'', but didn't, and in doing so, created his own worst enemy? You-Know-Who is practically the king of this trope.

** {{spoiler|Crabbe (Goyle in the movie) with his own Fiendfyre spell.}}

** Also, everything that happens in "King's Cross". As Harry [[Lampshade Hanging|says]], "Is this all in my head or is it real?" and gets a [[Mathematician's Answer]] in response. Since Harry doesn't learn anything he couldn't have worked out on his own, there's really no way to be sure.

* [[Merciful Minion]]: Draco refuses to admit the prisoner was Harry. Later, Narcissa crosses this trope with [[Death Faked for You]] and tells Voldemort that Harry is dead.

* [[Moment Killer]]: Twice: once by Ron and the other time by Harry. Harry did have a good reason for it, though.

{{quote|'''Harry:''' "OI! There's a war going on here!"}}

** In the book, {{spoiler|before the Dursleys leave Privet Drive, Dudley shows concern about Harry’s safety, tells Harry that he doesn’t consider him to be "a waste of space," is thankful to him for saving his life, and even shakes his hand}}. For {{spoiler|Dudley}}, this is positive [[Character Development]] and a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] rolled into one, {{spoiler|because it presents Dudley as finally accepting and appreciating Harry}}. Disappointingly, this is left out in the film, though it's included in the [[DVD/Blu Ray|Blu Ray]] deleted scenes.

** Also in the book, Dean Thomas is seen in the final battle casting spells with a new wand, having obtained it during the battle, as we see him enter the final battle without one. It's true he's a minor character, but this is an unarmed teenager who took ownership of a wand by forcefully taking it from a trained killer in the middle of a kill or be killed melee between good and evil.

* [[Only Mostly Dead]]: {{spoiler|Harry's hit by the Killing Curse and [[Near-Death Experience|could be considered dead]] - but it only really kills the [[Soul Fragment]] left by Voldemort.}}

* [[Plot Hole]]: The Elder Wand changes its allegiance based on its owner being defeated (not necessarily killed) and touching the wand is not necessary to become its master. Harry even taunts Voldemort for his failure to understand this and {{spoiler|proves his point when the Elder Wand turns out to not work against him}}. However, Harry and Dumbledore both make the same mistake soon after by concluding that if Harry dies a natural death, the Elder Wand will no longer have a master. For this conclusion to hold, Harry would need to go through the rest of his life never being defeated in battle, which sounds very unlikely for someone who fancies a career as a Dark Wizard hunter in the Magic Police.