Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) Summary

Following Dumbledore's death, Voldemort continues to realize support and increase his power. When Harry turns seventeen, the protection he has at his aunt and uncle's home is broken, and he flees to the Burrow along with his friends (many of whom use Polyjuice Potion to impersonate him thus on confuse any Death Eaters that pursue). they're attacked, however create it to the Burrow safely.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione grasp they can not come back to Hogwarts faculty for his or her seventh year, instead they end the hunt Dumbledore started: to hunt and destroy Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes, objects within which he has hidden elements of his soul for the aim of being immortal. They isolate themselves to confirm their friends and families' safety. they need very little information regarding the remaining horcruxes except the chance that 2 are objects once belonging to Hogwarts founders Rowena Ravenclaw, Helga Hufflepuff and a 3rd is also Nagini, Voldemort's snake acquainted. The whereabouts of the 2 founders' objects is unknown, and Nagini is presumed to be with Voldemort. As they rummage around for the Horcruxes, the trio learn a lot of regarding Dumbledore's past. Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour are married, however the marriage is disrupted by the news that Voldemort has taken over the Ministry of Magic.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione flee into London and shortly to twelve Grimmauld Place, where they learn from Kreacher the whereabouts of Salazar Slytherin's locket. They successfully recover this Horcrux by infiltrating the Ministry of Magic and stealing it from Dolores Umbridge. underneath the object's evil influence and also the stress of being on the run, Ron leaves the others. Harry and Hermione travel to Godric's Hollow, Harry's birthplace and also the place his folks died, where they meet the eldery magical historian Bathilda Bagshot, who seems to be Nagini in disguise and attacks them. They escape into the Forest of Dean, where a mysterious silver doe leads Harry to the Sword of Godric Gryffindor at the lowest of an icy lake, one amongst the few objects able to destroy horcruxes. When Harry makes an attempt to recover the sword from the pool, the horcrux makes an attempt to kill him. Ron reappears, saving Harry and using the sword to destroy the locket. Resuming their search, the trio repeatedly encounter an odd image, that an eccentric wizard named Xenophilius Lovegood tells them represents the legendary Deathly Hallows. The Hallows are 3 sacred objects: the Resurrection Stone, with the facility to summon the dead to the living world; the Elder Wand, an unbeatable wand; and an infallible Invisibility Cloak. Harry learns that Voldemort is seeking the Elder Wand, however is unaware of the opposite Hallows and their significance.

The trio are captured and brought to Malfoy Manor, where Bellatrix Lestrange tortures Hermione. Harry and Ron meet Luna Lovegood, Ollivander, Dean Thomas, and Griphook conjointly being kept within the cellar. They escape to Shell Cottage (Bill and Fleur's house) with Dobby's facilitate, however at the value of the house-elf's life. Harry is aware of that Voldemort robbed Dumbledore's tomb and procured the Elder Wand, however he decides to concentrate on the Horcruxes rather than the Hallows. With Griphook's facilitate, they forced the lock Bellatrix's vault at the Wizarding Bank Gringotts, where they believe lies another Horcrux. they're correct, and that they retrieve Helga Hufflepuff's cup and escape with a dragon. Harry learns that another horcrux is hidden in Hogwarts, that is underneath the management of Severus Snape. Harry, Ron, and Hermione enter the varsity through Hogsmeade (being saved by Aberforth Dumbledore, who explains a lot of regarding Albus's backstory) and with the assistance of the academics Snape is ousted from the varsity. The Death Eaters and Voldemort assault the varsity, whereas Harry, Ron, and Hermione rummage around for the Horcrux regarding Ravenclaw. within the meantime, Ron and Hermione head to the Chamber of Secrets and destroy the cup. The trio realize Rowena Ravenclaw's diadem (another Horcrux) within the space of demand. The diadem is destroyed by Fiendfyre forged Vincent Crabbe in a trial to kill Harry, Ron, and Hermione and lands up killing him instead.

Voldemort and his followers besiege Hogwarts. Harry, Ron, and Hermione, their allies, and numerous magical creatures defend Hogwarts. many major characters are killed within the 1st wave of the battle, as well as Remus Lupin, Nymphadora Tonks, and Fred Weasley. Voldemort kills Severus Snape as a result of he thinks doing thus can create him the Elder Wand's true master. Harry discovers whereas viewing the reminiscences of Snape that Voldemort inadvertently created Harry a horcrux when he attacked him as a baby which Harry should die to destroy Voldemort. These reminiscences conjointly ensure Snape's unwavering loyalty to Dumbledore which his role as a double-agent against Voldemort never waried when Voldemort killed Lily Evans (Harry's mother), Snape's one, true love. Harry surrenders himself to Voldemort, using the Resurrection Stone to bring back his deceased loved ones for a brief whereas, who casts the Killing Curse at him, sending Harry to a limbo-like state between life and death. There, Dumbledore explains that when Voldemort used Harry's blood to regain his full strength, it protected Harry from Voldemort harming him; the Horcrux within Harry has been destroyed, and Harry will come back to his body despite being hit by the Killing Curse. Dumbledore conjointly explains that Harry became the true master of the Deathly Hallows by facing Death, not by seeking to avoid or conquer it. Harry returns to his body, feigning death and Voldemort marches victorious into the castle along with his body. However, he shows that he's still alive whereas Neville Longbottom kills Nagini, the last horcrux, with the Sword of Gryffindor. The battle resumes, and Bellatrix Lestrange is killed by Molly Weasley. Harry duels Voldemort once and for all, and Voldemort is ultimately defeated as a result of Harry was the true master of the Elder Wand (Draco was the master of the Elder Wand when Disarming Dumbledore, Harry Disarmed Draco at Malfoy Manor) and also the wand refused to kill the one it had allegience to. Instead, Voldemort's killing curse backfired and Voldemort and his Death Eaters were defeated. The wizarding world was then able to live in peace another time.