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

* [[Call Back]]: Doubles as [[Book Ends]]. In ''[[Philosopher's Stone]]'', Hagrid takes Harry to #4 Privet Drive for the first time... in Sirius Black's flying motorbike. Guess how Harry leaves forever at the beginning of this book.

** In the last film, there's a callback to ''[[Prisoner of Azkaban]]'', where Sirius tells Harry "''The ones that love us never really leave us. And you can always find them in here.''" *points at Harry's heart*

'''Sirius:''' "No. We're ''here'', you see." *points at Harry's heart* }}

* [[Call Forward]]: James' remark about Slytherin is exactly the same as Draco's remark about Hufflepuff in Book 1. Similarly, Sirius says the same thing about Slytherin that Ron had said about Gryffindor.

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Kreacher, Dudley, the Malfoys and Grindelwald to an extent}}.

** Percy Weasley also shows up to make a [[Jerkass]] Face Turn.

** {{spoiler|Snape, back when he first joined the Death Eaters and found out about Trelawney's prophecy concerning Harry.}}

* [[Heroism Incentive]]: Harry secures the goblin's help by promising him the Sword of Gryffindor. The fact that Harry and Ron meant to sort of double deal the goblin [[Playing with Wiki|plays]] with the trope a bit.

* [[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.

* [[Monster Fun Facts]]: Many books have a passage like this when Harry is learning about monsters in school; in this one Harry doesn't go to school but runs down a list of things at Voldemort's command to the Dursleys (who don't know much about magical stuff), including:

* [[Morality Pet]]: {{spoiler|Lily for Severus}}. The fact that she was dead for seventeen years didn't seem to change this fact.

* [[Mortality Ensues]]: The Horcrux-destruction plot is all about causing this for Voldemort.

*** Also, in regards to the wand, in the book, he put it back in Dumbledore's grave with the hope that he, Harry, would die naturally so the cycle of violence over the wand would end. In the movie, he is much more pragmatic and simply snaps the wand in two.

* [[Noodle Incident]]: When the gang is sneaking around the Ministry of Magic, Harry sets off a Decoy Detonator, resulting in this remark from an employee that isn't elaborated upon any further:

** And this line from Lily in {{spoiler|one of Snape's memories:}}

* [[Nostalgia Heaven]]: A certain spoileriffic scene taking place in what appears to be King's Cross Station.

* [[Nothing Is the Same Anymore]]: ''Deathly Hallows'' is notable in that it breaks from the [[Strictly Formula|standard story structure]]. The [[Power Trio]] does not go back to Hogwarts until the [[Final Battle]]. Instead they are on the run because the Death Eaters pulled a coup d'etat on the Ministry of Magic and started [[Putting on the Reich]].

* [[Now or Never Kiss]]: Two, both before the final battle.

** Ron even [[Lampshades]] this.

* [[N-Word Privileges]]: Hermione refers to herself as a Mudblood and when Ron objects, she explains that she's proud that she can refer to herself that way instead of the Death Eaters doing it.

* [[Oblivious to Love]]: {{spoiler|Lily seems completely oblivious to the fact that Snape has been in love with her since they were children}}.

* [[The Power of Friendship]]: after six books where Harry is always telling his friends to stay safe and that he will do things on his own, this book shows how he finally accepts his friends' help.

** What pushes Ron to come back to his friends right after leaving them. He is helped by the Deluminator (see [[Fridge Brilliance]]) in this task. Harry even says it.

''Harry'': No. He must've known you'd always want to come back. }}

* [[Precision F-Strike]]: "NOT MY DAUGHTER, YOU BITCH!!!"

* [[Wham! Episode]]: Quite a few major characters were killed off.

* [[Wham! Line]]: A book full of them, but [[Popularity Power|this one takes the cake.]]

* [[What Could Have Been]]: Working titles were ''Harry Potter and the Elder Wand'' and ''Harry Potter and the Peverell Quest''. The latter was rejected for being way too cheesy, but the former would have made a lot more sense.

* [[What If the Baby Is Like Me?]]: Remus frets a lot over this.