The Seventh and Final Book in the Series
Basic Details:
· Release date (UK/US/Australia/Canada/English-Speaking Countries): July 21st, 2007
· Page count: 608 (
· Word count: approximately 198,227 (official count from Scholastic still to come).
· Price: 17.99 (GBP), 34.99 (USD)
· Deluxe Edition Price: 65 (USD)
· Illustrations:
- Jason Cockroft (Bloomsbury
- Mary Grandpré (Scholastic
· J.K. Rowling had also considered the titles Harry Potter and the Peverell Quest & Harry Potter and the Elder Wand for this book.
Dedication:
The dedication of this book is split seven ways:
to Neil, to Jessica, to David, to Kenzie, to Di, to Anne,
and to you, if you have stuck with Harry until the very end.
International Release Dates:
- Brazilian Portuguese: (as Harry Potter e as Relíquias da Morte) - November 10, 2007
Chinese: (as 哈利波特－死神的聖物) - October 20, 2007 - Croatian: (as Harry Potter i darovi smrti) - October 26, 2007
- Dutch: (as Harry Potter en de Relieken van de Dood) - November 17, 2007
- French: (as Harry Potter et les reliques de la mort) - October 26,2007
- German: (as Harry Potter und die Heiligtümer des Todes) - October 27, 2007
- Greek: (as Ο Χάρι Πότερ και οι κλήροι του θανάτου) - November 3,2007
- Portuguese: (as Harry Potter e os talismãs da Morte) - November 16, 2007
- Romanian: (as Harry Potter şi Talismanele Morţii) - December 1, 2007
- Vietnamese: (as Harry Potter và bảo bối tử thần) October 27, 2007
Quotes:
The Epigraph
'Oh, the torment bred in the race,
the grinding scream of death
and the stroke that hits the vein,
the hemorrhage none can staunch, the grief,
the curse no man can bear.'
Aeschylus
from The Libation Bearers
"I shall attend to the boy in person. There have been too many mistakes where Harry Potter is concerned. Some of them have been my own. 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." - Voldemort
"Dawn seemed to follow midnight with indecent haste."
"Harry, the time for Disarming is past! These people are trying to capture and kill you! At least Stun if you aren't prepared to kill!" - Remus Lupin to Harry
"Dying? Not at all," said Sirius. "Quicker and easier than falling asleep." - Sirius Black
"The Hallows, the Hallows," murmured Dumbledore. "A desperate man's dream!" - Albus Dumbledore
"It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well." - Albus Dumbledore
"If you’re not in Gryffindor, we’ll disown you," said Ron. "But no pressure." - Ron Weasley
"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?" - Albus Dumbledore
Other media versions:
· Audiobooks
- Stephen Fry (
- Jim Dale (
