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== Tropes exclusive to this book or at least especially prominent ==
* [[Aborted Arc]]: Played with. Neville becomes a [[Took a Level
** A [[What Could Have Been]]. Florean Fortescue's disappearance/kidnapping In Half Blood Prince. Rowling has said that this was to involve a subplot of Fortescue and the Elder Wand. Rowling cut it after realizing it went nowhere. She made this revelation in response to a question about Fortescue's disappearance In which she said he was indeed dead unfortunatly and explained the dropped subplot.
* [[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.}}
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*** Dudley Dursley finally reconciles with his cousin. [[Word of God]] states that when attacked by Dementors in [[Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix|Book 5]], Dudley was forced to [[Heel Realization|see himself for the cruel bully and fat spoiled slob he was.]]
* [[Babies Ever After]]: Just about everyone, it seems.
* [[Badass]]: Neville Longbottom. Yes, Neville.
** [[World of Badass|Almost every character]] who does anything at all in the book.
* [[Bag of Holding]]: Hermione's handbag.
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* [[Battle Trophy]]: After {{spoiler|Mad-Eye}} is killed by the Death Eaters, his {{spoiler|magical eye}} is seen in the Death Eater-controlled Ministry, used unashamedly by Umbridge.
* [[Batman Gambit]]/[[Thanatos Gambit]]: Dumbledore's plans from the previous books are still in motion.
** For instance, his plan to save Harry from the killing curse involved: Voldemort's horcrux absorbing some of the impact, Harry's blood being used in Voldemort's resurrection, having Voldemort himself cast the curse, making sure the elder wand was not fully under Voldemort's control and finally by having Harry willingly sacrifice himself rather than continue to fight.
*** The part about {{spoiler|the wand being under Draco Malfoy's control}} was specifically ''not'' in Dumbledore's plan, but in the end actually works to Harry's benefit.
**** In Dumbledore's plan {{spoiler|Snape would have killed him without Malfoy getting involved at all.}} This would have prevented Voldemort (or anyone else) from obtaining the Elder Wand's full power as it would not been won in a duel. Though things do end up working out even better than he could have imagined.
* [[Berserk Button]]:
** Mrs. Weasley always seemed so kind and matronly. But then someone made the mistake of threatening her daughter after her son had died. Yeah... not a good idea. She shouts "NOT MY DAUGHTER, YOU BITCH!" and kicks Bellatrix's butt.
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* [[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.
* [[Blatant Lies]]: After the ministry is taken over by Voldemort, they quickly adopt a strictly anti-Muggle policy, even setting up Inquisition style hearings for Muggle borns. And during one such trial, Dolores Umbridge flat out states that a Muggle-born she is interrogating ''is not a witch''. Harry can't take any more after this. Fortunately, [[Word of God]] states that Umbridge ended up in Azkaban for the rest of her life.
* [[Blood Magic]]: Because Voldemort used Harry's blood to bring himself back to life in [[Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire|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.
* [[Bowdlerise]]: A very unfortunate one for the Spanish translation. The [[Moment of Awesome|incredibly awesome as hell]] Molly Weasley's [[Precision F-Strike]] got treated this way, from "NOT MY DAUGHTER, YOU BITCH!" to "Not my daughter, you bad witch!".<ref>Rises from the use of "witch" as an insult, which makes no sense in a world where every female magic user is called a witch.</ref>
* [[Broken Pedestal]]: Played with with Dumbledore, {{spoiler|when Harry realises that not only did he make a huge number of mistakes in his past and that he was not the perfect wizard he idolised, but that he was sacrificing Harry to kill Voldemort without even discussing it with him}}. And inverted with Snape, {{spoiler|who he originally thought of as this horrible person he hated, but after realising the lengths he went to in order to protect him - to the point of infiltrating Voldemort's inner circle and dying for him - thinks radically differently}}.
* [[Changed My Mind, Kid]]: Ron walks out on Harry and Hermione. His return, just in time to save Harry, is a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].
* [[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.
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* [[Conveniently Cellmates]]: Harry and Ron end up shoved into the same cellar room as Luna.
* [[Conveniently Interrupted Document]]: Near the beginning, Harry finds a letter from one of his parents which mentions Dumbledore, and hints at a surprising revelation about his past. However, the second page of the letter is missing. He finds out much later that the revelation would have been of some use to him at the time, and that it was removed for reasons completely unrelated to any desire to keep it from him.
* [[Cool Old Guy]]: With Dumbledore gone, we get {{spoiler|his brother, Aberforth, who is almost as cool.}}
* [[Cool Old Lady]]:
** Neville's grandmother. Also overlaps with [[Badass Grandma]], as when Death Eaters came to her house to try and capture her, she not only ''fought them off, putting one of them in the hospital, but went on the run as well.'' Now we know where Neville gets his guts from.
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** The cover to the American edition made it seem like Harry and Voldemort were in an outdoor coliseum during their final confrontation when it turns out to be the Great Hall at Hogwarts. Might be less of a lie than typical, though: {{spoiler|It is a perfectly accurate rendition of the moment just after Voldemort is killed, including Harry reaching up to catch the Elder Wand. Harry and Voldemort even dueled at sunrise, and the Great Hall ceiling does reflect the sky outside, making it possibly an interpretation of the Great Hall and its ceiling.}}
** The Danish cover is much worse. At what point does ''[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101126205354/harrypotter/images/c/cf/Danish_cover_vol7.jpg this]'' happen in the book? Granted, it's possible that that is a representation of the centaurs and/or Hogwarts statues joining for the battle, but the actual "order allies to battle" by Harry never occurs.
* [[Crippling Overspecialisation]]: Voldemort, though the revelation builds on hints from previous books. Essentially all he ever cared about was the Killing Curse (or, more generally, the Unforgiveable Curses) and using Horcruxes to live forever, and from his narrow knowledge wasn't even aware that {{spoiler|he had possessed the Resurrection Stone (he was never interested in the Hallows, however). To the point that he ''still'' uses Avada Kedavra on Harry at the end despite it having backfired (in different ways) three times before.}} However, this is only with Harry, with everyone else, he brings out his most powerful curses, and even when Harry's sacrifice protects everyone, Voldemort still blasts Kingsley, McGonagall, and Slughorn out of the way when duelling all three ''at the same time''. With the final Avada Kedavra that essentially kills Voldemort, he was kind of left with no other choice. He could not curse any of the defenders because they were protected by Harry's love, and even if he killed Harry, he would be attacked by everyone else. He really didn't have a choice.
* [[The Cuckoolander Was Right]]: Luna and her father {{spoiler|about Hallows being the truth and that the Diadem of Rowena Ravenclaw is important}}.
* [[Cue the Sun]]: After the climax.
* [[Daddy Had a Good Reason For Abandoning You]]: Lupin tries to use this as an excuse to abandon Tonks and her unborn child and join Harry, Ron, and Hermione on their search for Horcruxes, but [[What the Hell, Hero?|Harry calls him out on it.]]
* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: Subverted. Voldemort's trap for Harry hinges on exploiting the latter's [[Chronic Hero Syndrome]], but {{spoiler|Voldemort seems to have forgotten the last time a person made a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to protect others from him....}}
* [[The Dark Side Will Make You Forget]]: Severus Snape. {{spoiler|When he started out he was [[Used to Be a Sweet Kid|a troubled neglected boy]] who just wanted Lily to like him. Then he got into Slytherin and things slowly turned rather dark at the influence of his friends. Then he got into the Death Eaters and completely forgot that blood-lines didn't used to matter to him, and things got worse to the point where he was trying to bargain with Voldemort to exchange Lily's own son's and husband's lives in order to save hers. Then he came back under ''Dumbledore's'' influence and ended up putting his life on the line to save other people, including Harry}}. So he wavered across the "Evil" line for a fair while there, obviously.
* [[The Day of Reckoning]]: Harry's return to Hogwarts marks the beginning of this for Voldemort.
* [[Dead Guy, Junior]]: {{spoiler|Harry's children are named James Sirius, Albus Severus and Lily Luna, and Remus names his son Ted after his father-in-law who was killed. [[Word of God]] says George names his son Fred.}}
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* [[The Dog Bites Back]]: Narcissa Malfoy.
* [[Don't Fear the Reaper]]: The youngest Peverell brother, having lived to age after a full life, meets up with death like an old friend. The movie actually shows the two embracing. It's surprisingly heartwarming in the context.
** Dumbledore gives a similar message to Harry at King's Cross.
* [[Driven to Suicide]]:
** The Bloody Baron does this after killing his lover in a fit of rage. Both of them return as ghosts afterward.
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** Averted with the Malfoys who, despite their beliefs and actions, [[Even Evil Has Loved Ones|care more about their family than anything else]].
* [[Face Death with Dignity]]: Grindelwald, who lied to Voldemort about the Elder Wand, and laughed in his face (though annoyingly this is completely reversed in the film). The Third Brother from the “Tale Of The Three Brothers” has this in spades, welcoming death as an “old friend”. Harry, when he faces Voldemort in the Forbidden Forest.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Taken [[Up to Eleven]] with the Muggle-born show trials. And then surpassing even that and [[This Is Wrong on So Many Levels]] with the sculpture of a giant throne made of dead/dying Muggles that is horrifically reminiscent of the gas chambers of the Holocaust.
* [[Feed the Mole]]
* [[Fighter, Mage, Thief]]: The Elder Wand (Fighter), the Resurrection Stone (Mage), and the Invisibility Cloak (Thief).
* [[Final Battle]]: And how!
* [[Final Exam Finale]]
* [[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.}}
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** {{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.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: two in this book. {{spoiler|One, obviously, by Harry at the end when he has to face Voldemort so he could kill him. Second, Snape, really deserves a mention in that he gave his entire life to Dumbledore in return for helping to keep Lily safe, and then later to protect Harry, even infiltrating Voldemort's inner circle to do so, which eventually resulted in his death}}.
* [[Heroic Suicide]]: {{spoiler|Harry.}} {{spoiler|[[Unexplained Recovery|He got better.]]}}
* [[High Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Narcissa Malfoy}}
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** {{spoiler|Peter Pettigrew, literally betrayed and choked by the hand he sacrificed to let Voldemort return}}. [[What Happened to the Mouse?|Well, at least in the books]].
** {{spoiler|Crabbe with his own [[Kill It with Fire|Fiendfyre.]]}} In the movies, it's {{spoiler|Goyle}}, with his other half simply written out.
** Bellatrix Lestrange at the hands of Molly Weasley after the former attempted to murder Ginny. The movie one-upped by having Molly hit her with another spell, causing her to shatter and exonerating Molly from actually killing her.
* [[Kill It with Fire|Kill It With Fiendfyre]]
* [[La Résistance]]:
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* [[Loan Shark]]: The goblins.
* [[Longing Look]]
* [[Love Redeems]] and [[Love Hurts]]: {{spoiler|Snape gets hit with both with regards to Lily. He not only fails to save her, but then spends the remainder of his life trying to protect the son she had with the man he hated, despite the fact that he tried to keep him in detention for most of his school life. It probably didn't make things any easier that Harry looked exactly like James but with Lily's eyes.}} Ouch.
* [[Mama Bear]]: Mrs. Weasley's mama bear really comes out. Surprisingly enough, so does Narcissa's.
** McGonagall really gets a chance to shine in this role, especially in the film.
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* [[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!"}}
* [[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:
{{quote|'''Harry:''' ...and Inferi - that is, dead bodies animated by a dark wizard...}}
* [[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.
* [[Mr. Exposition]]: As [[Cleolinda Jones]] pointed out, "Only Dumbledore could still have The Power of Exposition {{spoiler|a year dead.}}".
* [[My New Gift Is Lame]]: Pointed out by Ron when [[Bookworm|Hermione]] gets a book of fairy tales, Ron gets an item which can ''manipulate light'', and Harry gets... an old snitch. Harry, however, [[Genre Savvy|knows]] that with it coming from Dumbledore there must be a secret involved, though - and there is. Also the Snitch was the very one that Harry caught in his first ever Quidditch match, which if anything gave it some sentimental value, which in fact was useful to conceal even more its true purpose from the Ministry.
* [[Naked People Are Funny]]: Mad-Eye's plan to sneak Harry out of his house involves everyone transforming to look like him and flying off in all directions. When they change clothes, Harry is annoyed that no one is particularly bashful about getting naked while disguised as him.
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** The blood wasn't enough in itself; according to Dumbledore, Harry's decision to let Voldemort kill him rather than keep fighting was what "made all the difference".
* [[New Powers as the Plot Demands]]: Subverted. It can seem as though the Deluminator is only there to enable {{spoiler|Ron's [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment}}. This is rationalized through both [[The Power of Love]] and [[The Power of Friendship]].
** Also, for some reason, Voldemort can fly. There was some [[Foreshadowing]] though: his name means "Flight of Death" in French.
* [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]]: Thanks to a combination of his [[Pride]], [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good|incomprehension of certain aspects of base human nature]], and incomplete knowledge of the prophecy which causes it to become [[Self-Fulfilling Prophecy|self-fulfilling]], Voldemort in many ways directly contributes to his own downfall.
** (For instance, the man ''destroys one of his own [[Soul Jar]]s.'' It was part of a huge [[Batman Gambit]] set up by Dumbledore, but, ''still''.)
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* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Ron receives one of these from some spiritual hallucinations of Harry and Hermione ([[It Makes Sense in Context]]).
** And Voldemort, of course, gets one from Harry during their final showdown.
*** In the film it's ''[[Took a Level
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: R.A.B: when he discovered what a [[Complete Monster|monster]] Voldemort was, stole the Horcrux and [[Senseless Sacrifice|died in the process]].
** Also {{spoiler|Severus Snape.}}
* [[Redemption Rejection]]: In the film, Draco is called by his parents to join the Death Eaters, and he gets several long seconds of worry before siding with them. {{spoiler|"Them" being his parents, not the Death Eaters. During the final battle, [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here|he and his parents flee Hogwarts]] instead of staying and fighting for Voldemort.}}
* [[Red Herring]]: Neville. Many readers thought this book would have Trelawney's prophecy turn out to be that he was the one who would bring down Voldemort. He has a bigger part in it than most though.
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** All of the Lovegood's house counts, really.
* [[Rousing Speech]]: Neville gets one in the movie version, in place of his [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner|"I'll join you when hell freezes over! Dumbledore's Army!" line]].
* [[Rule of Three]]: Three Hallows, the [[Youngest Child Wins|third Peverell brother doesn't meet an untimely death]]. This book also features the third time that Voldemort tries the killing curse on Harry.
* [[Rules Lawyer]]: Harry [[Talking the Monster to Death|rules-lawyers Voldemort to death]].
* [[Sadist Teacher]]: The Carrows, a pair of ruthless Death Eater siblings, take over disciplinary matters and Defense Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts this year. You know they're bad when Neville says they make even Umbridge look good by comparison.
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* [[Soul Jar]]: Horcruxes, although each one only contains a fraction of his soul.
* [[Spanner in the Works]]: The Malfoys, more specifically Draco (unknowingly) and Narcissa (deliberately).
* [[Spared by the Adaptation]]: {{spoiler|Peter Pettigrew, annoyingly enough.}}
* [[Spotting the Thread]]: Luna Lovegood sees through Harry's disguise at Bill and Fleur's wedding simply from the expression on Harry's face.
* [[Start of Darkness]]: a variation. This time, instead of seeing Voldemort's transition from cute, troubled kid to full-on genocidal maniac we get to see Snape's transition from cute, troubled kid to troubled heartbroken adult, and Dumbledore's transition from cute, troubled kid to wise manipulative [[The Chessmaster|Chessmaster]] - both of them dabbling considerably in the Dark Arts for a while. Apparently coming from a broken home is a pre-requisite for this kind of thing. Interestingly, all three of them were [[Insufferable Genius]]es as teenagers.
* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Dolores Umbridge, with her girlish laugh and her sadistic, cheerful attitude, takes this trope [[Up to Eleven]] during her trials of Muggle-borns which emphasises her status of [[Complete Monster]]. Her [[Blatant Lies]] that a Muggle-born 'is not a witch' trigger Harry's [[Berserk Button]] quite quickly.
* [[Sue Donym]]: The Potterwatch radio crew refer to themselves by ridiculously transparent pseudonyms based on their actual names: Lee [[wikipedia:Jordan River|Jordan]] is ''River'', '''King'''sley Shacklebolt is ''Royal'', Fred Weasley (weasel) starts as ''Rodent'' (quickly changed to ''Rapier'', presumably for "rapier wit"), and Remus Lupin exhausts the last untapped blatant reference in his name by going as ''Romulus''. To their credit, Kingsley is the wizard [[James Earl Jones]] as far as vocal recognition goes and they would have been killed on sight anyhow for belonging to the Order of the Phoenix, so protecting their identities wasn’t worth much.
* [[Supernatural Aid]]: Dumbledore's will.
* [[Supporting Leader]]: Professor McGonagall leads the defense in the Battle for Hogwarts to give the [[Power Trio]] the time to find the final Horcrux, even though she has to trust Harry by his word alone.
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* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]: "NOT MY DAUGHTER, YOU BITCH!".
* [[Tomato in the Mirror]]: {{spoiler|"Harry is a Horcrux."}}
* [[Took a Level
* [[Tracking Device]] - A running quirk in the first book, revealed by Ron in the last: there's a reason why {{spoiler|wizards won't dare speak Lord's Voldemort's name}}.
** The spell that made that possible wasn't in ''use'' until the last book. So it was safe to actually {{spoiler|say Voldemort's name}} until that spell was cast.
* [[Troubled but Cute]]: Snape as a little kid.
* [[Tyrant Takes the Helm]]: Voldemort.
** Also, the former [[Trope Namer]], Dolores Umbridge.
* [[Unintentional Backup Plan]]: A rare villainous example. Voldemort is unaware that {{spoiler|Harry is his final Horcrux.}} As a result, he gave himself a way to win even after the other sources of his power were destroyed. Subverted because Harry still kicks his ass.
* [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]]: {{spoiler|Snape to Lily}}.
* [[Unrequited Love Lasts Forever]]: {{spoiler|Snape}}. [[Love Hurts|Ouch]].
* [[Untwist]]: Wormtail's life debt to Harry {{spoiler|isn't repaid out of gratitude or a [[Heel Face Turn]], but instead he's simply magically prevented from harming Harry at a critical moment. His "mercy" is completely accidental, and then triggers a [[You Have Failed Me...]] failsafe...}}
* [[Unwilling Suspension]]: The Muggle Studies teacher. McGonagall does this to the Carrows just before the [[Final Battle]].
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Voldemort during the final showdown with Harry, for once showing himself afraid as Harry [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|talks down to him.]] Also in a [[Kill the Messenger]] / [[You Know Too Much]] moment when he hears about {{spoiler|the Horcrux being stolen from Gingotts.}}
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* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]:
** Snape delivers one of these speeches to {{spoiler|Dumbledore, after he reveals that Harry (whom Snape has been protecting) must die in order to defeat Voldemort}}. [[Your Mileage May Vary|May or may not]] be a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]. It's the one time that Snape gets properly angry at Dumbledore.
** Harry delivers one to Lupin, when he offers to abandon his family to help the trio on their quest, largely out of self-loathing.
* [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]]
* [[White Void Room]]: "King's Cross". Only much cleaner.
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** Crabbe proves that he's not only willing to do ''this'', but is also willing to set one on fire.
** A non-lethal version involves Harry merely knocking Umbridge unconscious with a spell.
* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: {{spoiler|Wormtail's silver hand was enchanted to kill him if he ever betrayed Voldemort. He does so accidentally.}}
* [[Youngest Child Wins]]: The third Peverell brother is the only one who doesn't die as a consequence of his Hallow.
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