Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows

If you are here to download the leaked book.........sorry to disappoint you. You are in the wrong place at the right time. The books hasn't been leaked out yet. The book passing on around the internet is just a fake one. Most are fakes actually.

Theres only one which actually lived up to the expectations. the writing style is strikingly similar to J.K.Rowling. But if you are an intense reader you will immediately notice it. But I must admit that the writer has got great writing style and I hope she continues writing where Rowling leaves it off. After reading the book, one has to say that it is credible as the seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series for several reasons. Rowling has said that the last word in the book is “scar.” The last word in this book is “scar.”

Anyway, the fake story isn't entirely fake. It is a piece of fan fiction originally entitled The Seventh Horcrux by an author who identifies herself only as Melindaleo. Exquisitely done fan fiction, intricately plotted and deftly executed, but fan fiction nonetheless. It was originally published by Phoenixsong.net and can still be found there. The thing is, this book has been plagiarized and is being passed around as the seventh book. Even the site shows a disclaimer telling this.

Here is a review I found by Thomas Anthony Longo. But since I didnt find it in a site rather in a torrent .txt file I decided to copy it out here.

The book begins as Harry goes back to Privet Drive for the last time. He is joined by Ron and Hermione as they prepare to go on their quest to find the remaining Horcruxes that contain the bits of Lord Voldemort’s soul. If they can destroy the Horcruxes, then they can kill Voldemort. Harry is not happy about going back to Privet Drive, but he promised Dumbledore that he would before his headmaster was murdered. Imagine Harry’s surprise to find out that Dudley has been kicked out of school because he has been manifesting magical events. Yes, Dudley Dursley is a wizard. His Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia are distraught over it, and make the trio promise to help make Dudley his old self. They keep this promise before heading off to the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix.

Once they arrive at Grimauld Place, there is a great deal of celebration, tempered by thoughts of the future. Harry is reunited with Ginny Weasly, and with Ron and Hermione. It is clear from the nature of the relationship between the four that love is blooming. Things become a bit more muddled when they find that Headquarters is hosting Draco Malfoy and his mother in sanctuary and that Hogwarts will not open for the year. There is little to do but follow through on Dumbledore’s plan to find and destroy Tom Riddle’s Horcruxes. Together, they ignore the strictures of the Order and set off on a journey to find the missing Horcruxes. Even the Order is kept from knowing of the existence of the Horcruxes, and the four teens take the quest on their own shoulders. They travel to London, Albania, and all over the British Isles in their quest. Only when Harry visits the place where his parents were murdered and encounters Peter Pettigrew, better known as Wormtail, does he learn that he himself is the seventh Horcrux, invested with a bit of Voldemort’s soul at the time his mother was murdered by the Dark Lord. As Harry realizes that he will have to die to dispose of Voldemort once and for all, his relationship with Ginny takes on new urgency, and he is beset with uncertainty. His hardest battle is learning to rely on his friends instead of trying to do everything himself. He does learn, though, as the four find and destroy the last three Horcruxes of the Dark Lord. One, a cup owned by Helga Hufflepuff, another, a locket stolen by Regulus Black and kept with the belongings of Mundungus Fletcher in Azkaban Prison, and the last, the tiara of Rowena Ravenclaw, hidden in an frosty ice palace in the forbidden forest. During these trials, Harry and his friends face a dragon, a giant spider, more dementors, and a host of Death Eaters who will kill any of them, except of course Harry, who is the repository of Voldemort’s final Horcrux.

The wizarding world is not faring well as these excursions progress. Voldemort has decimated the ranks of the Aurors, the magical constabulary. The Minister of Magic, Rufus Scrimgour is a political animal, and much like Bill Clinton in the war on terror, Scrimgour is more interested in looking good than he is in safeguarding the magical community. When Scrimgour is finally murdered, he is replaced by Interim Minister for Magic, Delores Umbridge. Umbridge is the sadistic and obsessive bureaucrat who tortured Harry in his fifth year at Hogwarts. The misguided Umbridge chooses to try and make peace with Voldemort, a decision that leads to the death of Percy Weasly. When she releases Wormtail from Azkaban to appease him and hammers out a treaty with the Death Eaters, she holds a news conference to announce her triumph. This scene is one of the best in the book. As Umbridge, along with Severus Snape, announces the treaty to a packed ministry, Voldemort enters and brings an army of Death Eaters with him. He holds up Wormtail’s severed head from a box and announces that the terms of the treaty have changed, then hands Umbridge over to the werewolf pack led by Fenrir Grayback. She is torn to pieces. Harry, his friends, and most of the Order of the Phoenix are trapped in the hall of the news conference and a tremendous battle takes place. Remus Lupin and Tonks finally give their lives to protect Harry, and he is so enraged by their deaths that his magical fury bursts forth releasing the trapped wizards from Voldemort’s grasp. Some survivors escape and make their way to Hogwarts, where they hold up until the resolution of the war. Even the Dursleys are forced to take sanctuary in Hogwarts, and Dudley gets his first fledgling magical instruction.

Another tremendous scene takes place in Diagon Alley, where a pack of Death Eaters appear out of nowhere and begin to attack the shoppers and destroy the merchant's shops. The scene, with vulnerable civilians and sudden explosions, was highly evocative of modern day Israel and the suicide bombings of Islamic fanatics. The political tone of the book is especially insightful. At one point, Hermione even compares Umbridge to Neville Chamberlain and Voldemort to Adolph Hitler, a comparison that has been a subtext, but never actually vocalized by a character. As the book nears its conclusion, Harry is tricked into the clutches of Voldemort by Pansy Parkinson, who is trying to win a reprieve for Draco Malfoy from the Dark Lord's death sentence. Snape forces Harry to drink the draught of the Living Death, and only through the most supreme effort does Harry break Voldemort's binding spell and spit the mixture out. His friends rush into the ministry (now controlled by Voldemort) and a final confrontation with the Dark Lord occurs before the veil of death (the same one that took the life of Sirius Black). Through a clever trick of Hermione's, Harry manages to reverse the Horcrux spell and split the part of Voldemort's soul he posses away just in time to kill the Dark Lord. Tom Riddle reappears as Voldemort breathes his last. Harry's last act before passing out is to stop Snape from killing Ginny. Then he lapses into unconsciousness from which his friends fear his will not wake. The most moving part of the book takes place while Harry is unconscious. He moves as a spirit through the locked door in the Department of Mysteries that Dumbledore told him protects something. Once inside, he is able to commune with Dumbledore for one last time. Not only with Dumbledore, but with Sirius, Remus, Tonks, and even his mother and father. When Harry finally wakes, he finds himself in St. Mungo's and is recovering slowly from serious injuries.

The end of the book is dappled with details and feel good moments. All of the remaining Weasly's survive, but George loses a leg. Even Malfoy lives through the war, and the day of Voldemorts downfall is declared a national holiday in the wizarding world. Harry, now that he no longer is certain he must die to save his friends and adopted family, for the first time gets to feel what it is like to actually be part of a warm and loving family. The epilogue takes place three years after Harry and Ginny's marriage, and a year after the birth of their son, James. It is Ron's wedding day, and Harry is charged with getting him to the church on time. He is marrying Hermione at a small muggle chapel in her home town. The feel good end of the book is tempered with the notation that as Harry and Ron go into the chapel for the wedding, they fail to notice the headline in the muggle newspaper declaring that Vernon and Petunia Dursley were found in their locked home on Privet drive, dead from unknown causes. The wording of this last bit is reminiscent of the wording of the notice that Tom Riddle Sr. had been killed by his son, who became Lord Voldemort. Taken as a whole, this was an entirely satisfying conclusion to the Potter series. Nevertheless, the book did all the right things. It had the characters we expected, though not enough of some of them. It was everything anyone could want from the final Harry Potter book, including the hint that perhaps it was not the last book.


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