Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

[INTRO]

## Plot

### Chapter 1: The Dark Lord Ascending

"*That Potter lives is due more to my errors than to his triumphs... I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best laid plans. But I know better now. I understand those things that I did not understand before. I must be the one to kill Harry Potter, and I shall be.*"
— Lord Voldemort, to the Death Eaters

### Chapter 2: In Memoriam

"*Stripping away the popular image of serene, silver-bearded wisdom, Rita Skeeter reveals the disturbed childhood, the lawless youth, the lifelong feuds and the guilty secrets Dumbledore carried to his grave.*"
— Description of Rita Skeeter's book about Dumbledore's life

### Chapter 3: The Dursleys Departing

"*I don't think you're a waste of space.*"
— Dudley, to Harry

### Chapter 4: The Seven Potters

"*Even You-Know-Who can't split himself into seven.*"
— Moody, to Harry

### Chapter 5: Fallen Warrior

"*Pathetic, pathetic! With the whole wide world of ear-related humour before you, you go for holey?*"
— Fred, to George Weasley

### Chapter 6: The Ghoul in Pyjamas

"*It's like being a house-elf. Except without the job satisfaction. The sooner this wedding's over, the happier I'll be.*"
— Ron about the wedding preparations

### Chapter 7: The Will of Albus Dumbledore

"*I always said he was mental. Brilliant and everything, but cracked. Leaving Harry an old Snitch - what the hell was that about?*"
— Ron, about Dumbledore

### Chapter 8: The Wedding

"*The Ministry has fallen. Scrimgeour is dead. They are coming.*"
— Kingsley Shacklebolt's Patronus warning

### Chapter 9: A Place to Hide

"*Where else is there? We can hardly book rooms at the Leaky Cauldron, can we? And Grimmauld Place is out if Snape can get in there... I suppose we could try my parents' house, though I think there's a chance they might check there...*"
— Hermione, to Ron

### Chapter 10: Kreacher's Tale

"*Kreacher failed to obey orders, Kreacher could not destroy the locket!*"
— Kreacher, about Regulus Black's order to destroy the locket

### Chapter 11: The Bribe

"*I dunno, some Ministry hag... little woman. Bow on top of 'er head... looked like a toad.*"
— Mundungus, describing Umbridge

### Chapter 12: Magic is Might

"*But if my wife were accused of being a Mudblood," said Yaxley, " - not that any woman I married would ever be mistaken for such filth - and the Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement needed a job doing, I would make it my priority to do that job, Cattermole. Do you understand me?*"
— Yaxley, to Ron (as Cattermole)

### Chapter 13: The Muggleborn Registration Commission

"*Oh yes - an old family heirloom. The S stands for Selwyn... I am related to the Selwyns... indeed, there are few pureblood families to whom I am related... a put, that the same cannot be said for you. 'Parents professions: greengrocers.'*"
— Umbridge, about the locket

### Chapter 14: The Thief

"*He read Gregorovitch's mind, and I saw this young bloke perched on a windowsill, and he fired a curse at Gregorovitch and jumped out of sight. He stole it, he stole whatever You-Know-Who's after. And I... I think I've seen him somewhere...*"
— Harry, telling his dream to Ron and Hermione

### Chapter 15: The Goblin's Revenge

"*We take no sides. This is a wizards' war.*"
— Goblin in the forest

### Chapter 16: Godric's Hollow

"*The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.*"
— Words of Harry's parents' grave

### Chapter 17: Bathilda's Secret

"*He's coming! Hermione, he's coming!*"
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### Chapter 18: The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore

"*He changed, Harry, he changed! It's as simply as that! Maybe he did believe these things when he was seventeen, but the whole of the rest of his life was devoted to fighting the Dark Arts! Dumbledore was the one who stopped Grindelwald, the one who always voted for Muggle protection and Muggleborn rights, who fought You-Know-Who from the start, and who died trying to bring him down!*"
— Hermione, to Harry

### Chapter 19: The Silver Doe

**Ron Weasley**: "*I'm sorry, I'm sorry I left. I know I was a-a-*"
**Harry Potter**: "*You've sort of made up for it tonight. Getting the sword. Finishing off the Horcrux. Saving my life.*"
**Ron Weasley**: "*That makes me sound a lot cooler than I was.*"
**Harry Potter**: "*Stuff like that always sounds cooler than it really was. I've been trying to tell you that for years.*"
— Harry and Ron, after destroying the locket

### Chapter 20: Xenophilius Lovegood

"*BLOOD TRAITOR Felicity BLACK ERADICATED.*"
— *Daily Prophet* headline about Flick's death

### Chapter 21: The Tale of the Three Brothers

"*There is nothing Dark about the Hallows - at least, not in that crude sense. One simply uses the symbol to reveal onself to other believers, in the hope that they might help one with the Quest.*"
— Xenophilius Lovegood, about the Deathly Hallows

### Chapter 22: The Deathly Hallows

"'*Support Harry Potter' parties are unwise in the present climate.*"
— Remus Lupin, on Potterwatch

### Chapter 23: Malfoy Manor

"*If she dies under questioning, I'll take you next. Blood traitor is next to Mudblood in my book.*"
— Bellatrix Lestrange, to Ron

### Chapter 24: The Wandmaker

"*Wandlore is a complex and mysterious branch of magic.*"
— Ollivander, to Harry

### Chapter 25: Shell Cottage

"*To a goblin, the rightful and true master of any object is the maker, not the purchaser. All goblin-made objects are, in goblin eyes, rightfully theirs.*"
— Bill, to Harry

### Chapter 26: Gringotts

"*Like I said, yeh'd be mad ter try an' rob it.*"
— Hagrid, about Gringotts

### Chapter 27: The Final Hiding Place

"*Well, I don't know how to break this to you, but I think they might have noticed we broke into Gringotts.*"
— Ron, to Harry

### Chapter 28: The Missing Mirror

"*Nice job, I hope? Pleasant? Easy? Sort of thing you'd expect an unqualified wizard kid to be able to do without overstretching themselves?*"
— Aberforth, about Dumbledore's mission

### Chapter 29: The Lost Diadem

"*Blimey, Neville, there's a time and a place for getting a smart mouth.*"
— Ron, to Neville

### Chapter 30: The Sacking of Severus Snape

"*We teachers are rather good at magic, you know.*"
— Professor McGonagall, to Harry

### Chapter 31: The Battle of Hogwarts

"*I know that you are preparing to fight. You efforts are futile. You cannot fight me. I do not want to kill you. I have great respect for the teachers of Hogwarts. I do not want to spill magical blood. Give me Harry Potter, and none shall be harmed. Give me Harry Potter, and I shall leave the school untouched. Give me Harry Potter, and you will be rewarded. You have until midnight.*"
— Voldemort, to the people at Hogwarts

### Chapter 32: The Elder Wand

"*Why doesn't it work for me, Severus?*"
— Voldemort, about the Elder Wand

### Chapter 33: The Prince's Tale

**Severus Snape**: "*Hide them all, then. Keep her - them - safe. Please.*"
**Albus Dumbledore**: "*And what will you give me in return, Severus?*"
**Severus Snape**: "*In - in return? Anything.*"
— Snape taking Dumbledore's side

### Chapter 34: The Forest Again

"*He wanted to be stopped, to be dragged back, to be sent back home... but he was home. Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all found home here...*"
— Harry, about Hogwarts

### Chapter 35: King's Cross

"*Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?*"
— Dumbledore, to Harry

### Chapter 36: The Flaw in the Plan

"*So it all comes down to this, doesn't it? Does the wand in your hand know its last master was Disarmed? Because if it does... I am the true master of the Elder Wand.*"
— Harry, to Voldemort

### Epilogue: Nineteen Years Later

"*It's me. I'm extremely famous.*"
— Ron Weasley, to [RENAMED]