introduction

The meeting of the Death Eaters
The beginning of the book takes place in the Malfoys house, where the Death Eaters (including Severus Snape) meet with Lord Voldemort to discuss how Harry Potter should be killed. Snape gives Voldemort important information about Harry's planned escape from the Dursley's house, which he learned from a source known to Voldemort and to him. The Order of the Phoenix plans to take Harry to a house of one of the Order members at sunset on Saturday, as the protection that the Dursleys house offers Harry ends on his 17th birthday. Despite objections from Death Eater Yaxley, Voldemort trusts Snape's information.

Yaxley reports to the Dark Lord about the planned takeover of the Ministry of Magic. Yaxley managed to put the Imperius Curse on Pius Thicknesse, the head of the Magical Law Enforcement Division. As a result, nothing stands in the way of the early conquest of the ministry. Voldemort decides to personally intervene in the destruction of Harry.Based on the experiences after the Triwizard Tournament, Voldemort knows that he needs another wand to kill Harry - Lucius Malfoy, who is also present, has to give him his. One person hangs upside down over the meeting table throughout the meeting. Voldemort explains that this is Charity Burbage, who is the Muggle Studies teacher at Hogwarts. Since, in his opinion, she takes too much protection from the Muggles and the "Mudbloods" with her teachings, he kills them in cold blood and throws the lifeless body of his snake Nagini to eat.


Escape from Privet Drive
Harry is at the Dursley's home shortly before his 17th birthday. For the first time since his first trip to Hogwarts, he clears his suitcase completely and finds some things that have accumulated there in six years. He reads an obituary in the Daily Prophet for Albus Dumbledore, written by his longtime friend Elphias Doge.Doge tells something from Dumbledore's life, especially from his youth and from his family. Then Harry comes across another article in the Daily Prophet - an interview with reporter Rita Kimmkorn, who has already written a biography about Dumbledore and will publish it soon. In the interview, Skeeter announces that her book contains some explosive, previously unknown facts about Dumbledore. For example, she mentions the evil wizard Grindelwald, who is mysteriously related to Dumbledore. She also devoted an entire chapter to the "unhealthy" relationship between Harry and Dumbledore. All of this will make Dumbledore appear in a very different, gloomy light even with his most ardent followers.

Since Harry is soon in danger on Privet Drive, the Order has decided to move him to a safe place. Mundungus Fletcher came up with the idea of ​​using Polyjuice Potion to confuse potential opponents.Several members of the order assume Harry's identity. Each of the fake Harrys is accompanied by an adult, the real Harry is placed in the care of Rubeus Hagrid. As soon as Harry's friends have left the Dursley's house on flying brooms, thestrals and an enchanted motorcycle, they are circled in the air by over 30 Death Eaters. The different Harrys swarm apart, each one being followed by a few Death Eaters. At first it seems as if Hagrid and the real Harry can shake off their pursuers, but then Lord Voldemort shows himself personally. He wants to kill his archenemy, which to his horror fails similarly to the end of "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire". Harry and his companion Hagrid barely reach the sheltered home of Nymphadora Tonks' parents. Using a portkey, the two finally get to the burrow, where they learn that George Weasley has lost an ear due to a curse from Severus Snape.He takes his injury with humor, but everyone present is shocked by the news that the ex-Auror Alastor Moody was killed by Voldemort.


Bill and Fleur's wedding
While staying at the Burrow, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger affirm their decision to join Harry on his search for the Horcruxes. They decide to go after Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour's wedding. During these days, the Minister of Magic Rufus Scrimgeour visits them to give them three heirlooms from Albus Dumbledore: For Ron Dumbledore's Dehumidifier, for Hermione a book called "The Tales of Beedle the Bard" and for Harry the Snitch, which he found in his first Quidditch Game at Hogwarts. The sword, also bequeathed to Harry by Godric Gryffindor, is refused by Scrimgeour.

During Bill and Fleur's wedding, Harry meets Luna's father Xenophilius Lovegood, who has a strange mark on his chest.This sign angered Viktor Krum, who was also present. He explains to Harry that this is the symbol of the black magician Grindelwald. Harry can't believe, however, that Luna's father has anything to do with the Dark Arts. In the course of the wedding, Harry also made the acquaintance of Ron's old aunt Muriel, who told him more rumors about the late Headmaster Dumbledore. In the middle of this conversation, a Patronus from Kingsley Shacklebolt bursts in, bringing the news of the Death Eaters taking over the Ministry of Magic and the murder of Scrimgeour. Moments later, the wedding party is attacked. Harry, Ron and Hermione can Disapparate at the last second. The escape destination initially chosen by Hermione spontaneously is. Tottenham Court Road in London. Harry, Hermione and Ron go to a cafe, but this is also found immediately by Death Eaters, after a fight the three flee again and initially find safe shelter at 12 Grimmauldplatz.Bulk

The search for the Horcruxes
Grimmauldplatz 12 becomes the headquarters of the trio. There they cover the identity of R.A.B. up - it's Sirius' brother Regulus A. Black. They identify a silver locket that Mundungus Fletcher stole from the house as a Horcrux. With the help of the house-elf Kreacher, they learn that the locket is in the possession of Dolores Umbridge.

After Harry, Hermione and Ron have spied on the Ministry of Magic for a month, they manage to break into the Ministry with the help of the Polyjuice Potion. Death Eaters control the key positions there, Muggleborn wizards and witches are persecuted. The fountain in the foyer of the Ministry has been replaced by a statue of a witch and a wizard seated on a throne made up of subjugated Muggles. The trio is first separated, but Harry and Hermione manage to steal the locket from Dolores Umbridge while she is interrogating a Muggleborn.The trio frees several Muggleborns waiting there and encourages them to leave the country. On the run, their hiding place is discovered at Grimmauldplatz 12, after which they spend the night in a tent in constantly changing locations.

After several months on the run, they overhear the conversation of several outlaws, including the goblin Griphook. They learn that the Ministry only has a copy of Gryffindor's sword, the location of the original is unknown. Harry questions the portrait of Phineas Nigellus and learns that Dumbledore used the sword to destroy one of the Horcruxes, Gaunt's ring. Since Harry has not yet been able to destroy the locket, he decides to find the real sword. Ron accuses Harry of proceeding haphazardly after several weeks of unsuccessful search. The argument escalates and Ron angrily leaves the trio. Despite this shock, Hermione and Harry decide to continue their search and visit Harry's birthplace, Godric's Hollow.There they hope for clues about the whereabouts of the remaining Horcruxes or Godric Gryffindor's sword. In the cemetery you will find the graves of Harry's parents, Dumbledore's family and a very old tombstone of a man named Ignotus, which bears the symbol that Harry saw at Xenophilius Lovegood.

At the destroyed house of Harry's parents, the two meet Bathilda Bagshot, who was a neighbor of the adolescent Dumbledore. They follow her home hoping for important information about the sword. Only at the last moment do they realize that Nagini is using Bathilda's body to set a trap for Harry and arrest him for Voldemort - the two narrowly escape. In the fray, Hermione accidentally brushed a curse on Harry's wand, which was lying on the floor, and it broke in two.

They relocate again, this time to the Forest of Dean. One night, a doe-shaped patronus shows Harry to an ice-covered pond in the forest.At the bottom of it lies the sword of Gryffindor. Harry dives into the freezing cold water, grabs the sword and tries to surface, but the chain of the Slytherin locket around his neck tightens and almost strangles him. He passes out, and when he comes to, Ron is with him, who saved him. He had found the other two with the help of the chandelier that Dumbledore had given him. Ron also takes on the task of destroying the Horcrux with the help of the sword.


The Deathly Hallows
Reunited, they go to Xenophilius Lovegood to ask him about the symbol (a triangle containing a circle). He refers to an old children's fairy tale which Hermione reads from the storybook that Dumbledore bequeathed to her: the story of the three brothers.

There were once three brothers who wanted to cross a river that was so deep and dangerous that they could neither wade through nor swim across it. But the brothers were magicians and so they conjured up a bridge.Arrived in the middle of the bridge, they met death. He was amazed and angry at the same time that they had managed to cross his deadly stream, and he offered each of them to grant him a wish. The first wanted a wand, more powerful than any other wand. Death cut a wand out of an elder bush and handed it to the first. The second wanted the power to bring the dead to life. Death picked up a stone from the earth, bestowed this gift on him, and presented it to the second. The third, cleverest brother knew that death was deceiving them. He gave them mighty gifts, but he would soon try to lead them into his kingdom anyway. So he wanted the power to escape death as long as possible. And death, grumbling, presented him with an