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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
by J. K. Rowling (about J K Rowling)
Review by Jonny Zetterström

In ten years or seven books Harry Potter has turned from a child into a fullgrown man or wizard. He’s a young adult with a mission: to save the wizardig world from lord Voldemort a k a He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named a k a the Dark Lord.

I fell in love with the magic world of Harry Potter years ago. I read the first books and had to wait for the next. The seventh and last book was recently released and fans where standing in line to get it. I bought it the same day, but it was a Saturday and I got some well-deserved sleep before going to the local bookstore.

In my first encounter with Harrys world he was about to turn eleven; he found out of the magic world and left for Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. In this book he turns seventeen and is thus of age and allowed to use magic.

Voldemort has attempted to cheat death by splitting his soul into multiple pieces and storing each piece in a special object called a horcrux. In each hurcrux his soul lives on and Harry has to destroy the remaining horcruxes in order to finally defeat Voldemort.

The wizarding world is turned upside down. The Death Eaters, followers of Voldemort, rule by terror and hunts down the mudbloods and muggleborns.

I have to admit I really didn’t like the sixth book that much. It seemed a bit too dark to me. But this one I really love.

The story brilliantly builds up from page to page towards the inevitable end.

Truely recommended reading.

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Joanne, J. K. Rowling is the bestselling author of the Harry Potter books.

The Harry Potter story is set in a fantasy world. Harry is a young wizard with a scar shaped as a lightning bolt. He is famous in the wizard world for surviving an attack from the dark lord. He attends Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry and fights dark powers throughout the series. The books have sold over 325 copies worldwide.

Joanne, or Jo as she prefers to be called, was born 31 July 1965. Her real name is Joanne Rowling; the K was added when the publisher, Bloomsbury, thought a female author wouldn’t appeal to the intended audience of young boys and thought it better to use a two letter pseudonym. Supposedly Joanne chose to add a K for Kathleen, as a tribute to her grandmother.

She wrote down her first story as a five or six yearold. But it wasn’t until 1990, when she on a four-hour-delayed traintrip from Manchester to London, that she first thought of Harry Potter. The basic idea was a young man attending a school of wizardry. It took a few years for her to complete the novel. Unemployed Joanne completed it in 1995.

The seventh and final book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, has just been published 21 July 2007. Joanne states that an eight book is very unlikely, but that she “never says never”.