Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Original title: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ) is the seventh and, as the author Joanne K. Rowling has announced, the last volume in the Harry Potter series. English-language editions were published worldwide on July 21, 2007 by various publishers for the Canadian, US and world markets (at Bloomsbury Publishing ). Among other things, adult and audio book editions appeared at the same time. The German translation was published on October 27, 2007 by Carlsen Verlag . As for all other German-language Harry Potter volumes, Klaus Fritz made the translation and Sabine Wilharm designed the cover.
To date, an estimated 50 million copies of the book have been sold worldwide, making it one of the best-selling books in the world.
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introduction
At a meeting between Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters in the Malfoys' house, Severus Snape shares important information about Harry's imminent escape from the Dursley's house: The Order of the Phoenix is therefore planning to bring Harry to the house of one of the members next Saturday at sunset because the Dursley's house will soon no longer offer him any protection. A spell ensures that Voldemort cannot touch or harm Harry in the place Harry calls home. This spell ends when Harry turns 17. Since he intends to kill Harry personally, Voldemort decides to participate in the planned attack. Death Eater Yaxley also reports on the planned takeover of the Ministry of Magic . Yaxley has also brought the high ministry official Pius Thicknesse , who later becomes Minister of Magic, under his control with the Imperius Curse. During the meeting, Voldemort kills Hogwarts teacher Charity Burbage with a killing curse.
The Order of the Phoenix decides to use Polyjuice Potion to confuse potential opponents during Harry's escort. Thus several members of the Order take on Harry's appearance. Each of the fake Harrys is accompanied by a skilled wizard; the real Harry is traveling with Hagrid . Shortly after leaving the house on flying brooms , thestrals and an enchanted motorcycle, she circles a crowd of Death Eaters in the air and separates the group. The real Harry is finally identified and personally attacked by Voldemort, which, however, fails similarly to the end of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire . Harry and his companion barely reach the safe hiding place, the burrow . George Weasley loses an ear under a curse from Severus Snape and Alastor Moody dies under Voldemort's spell.
While staying at the Burrow, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger reaffirm their decision to accompany Harry on his search for the Horcruxes . During these days they are visited by the Minister of Magic Rufus Scrimgeour to give them three heirlooms from the former Headmaster of Hogwarts Albus Dumbledore : Dumbledore's Deluminator for Ron and the book " Tales of Beedle the Bard " for Hermione. Harry receives the Snitch he caught in his first Quidditch game at Hogwarts. The sword of Godric Gryffindor , also bequeathed to him, is refused by Scrimgeour.
At Bill and Fleur's wedding, Harry meets Luna's father Xenophilius Lovegood , who has a strange mark on his chest. It is the symbol of the black magician Gellert Grindelwald . Harry can't believe that Luna's father has anything to do with the Dark Arts. Harry also meets Ron's old aunt Muriel, who tells him rumors about the late headmaster Dumbledore. In the middle of this conversation bursts of Patronus of Kingsley Shacklebolt who brings the news of the acquisition of the magic Ministry by the Death Eaters and the murder of Scrimgeour and warns the wedding party before coming Death Eaters. Moments later, they attack the wedding party. Harry, Ron and Hermione can Apparate into London's Tottenham Court Road at the last minute . They are found by Death Eaters in a café shortly afterwards. After a fight, the three of them flee again and initially find safe shelter in Grimmauldplatz 12 . It later emerges that the Death Eaters found the three through a taboo on the use of the name "Voldemort".
The search for the Horcruxes
Grimmauldplatz number 12 becomes the headquarters of the trio. There they uncover the identity of RAB: It is Sirius' brother Regulus Arcturus Black , who at the time removed the Horcrux - the Slytherin medallion - from Voldemort's hiding place with the intention of destroying it. In the meantime, however, it is owned by Dolores Umbridge . After Harry, Hermione and Ron have spied on the Ministry of Magic for a month, they use the Polyjuice Potion to get in there. Harry and Hermione manage to steal the locket from Dolores Umbridge. They also free several Muggleborn wizards who are now being persecuted by the Ministry and encourage them to leave the country. While fleeing, their hiding place is discovered at Grimmauldplatz 12, which means that they are forced to spend the night in a tent at constantly changing locations.
After a few months on the run, they overhear the conversation of several outlaws, including the goblin Griphook. They learn that the Ministry unknowingly only has a copy of Gryffindor's sword - the location of the original is unknown. Harry questions the portrait of Phineas Nigellus , a former headmaster of Hogwarts, and learns that Dumbledore used the sword to destroy one of the Horcruxes. Since Harry has not yet managed to destroy the locket, he plans to find the real sword. After several weeks of unsuccessful search, an argument between Ron and Harry escalates and Ron leaves the group angrily. Hermione and Harry continue the search together and travel to Godric's Hollow , Harry's birthplace. In the local cemetery they visit the graves of Harry's parents and Dumbledore's family. In doing so, they discover the enigmatic symbol that Harry saw at Xenophilius Lovegood on an old tombstone. At the destroyed house of Harry's parents, the two meet Bathilda Bagshot, a neighbor of the adolescent Dumbledore. They follow her hoping for information about the sword. But they realize that Voldemort's serpent Nagini has used Bathilda's body to ambush Harry and arrest him for Voldemort. The two narrowly escape. Harry's wand breaks in the turmoil.
Harry and Hermione find their next refuge in the Forest of Dean . One night a patronus in the shape of a doe leads Harry to a frozen pond in the forest. On its bottom he discovers the sword of Gryffindor and dives into the ice-cold water to retrieve it. Underwater, the chain of the Slytherin locket tightens around his neck and almost strangles him. When Harry comes to, Ron is with him, who has saved him. With the help of the deluminator he left behind , Ron was able to find the other two. Ron then destroys the Horcrux with the Sword of Gryffindor. Then he apologizes for his escape and they make up again.
The Deathly Hallows
Ron, Harry and Hermione visit Xenophilius Lovegood to ask him about the symbol he wore at the wedding - a triangle with a circle and a vertical line inside. He refers to an old fairy tale, "The Story of the Three Brothers", which Hermione reads from her storybook. The story is illustrated in the book with the same symbol.
The story is about three brothers, each of whom death personally granted a wish. All three wanted to overcome death with their wishes. The oldest brother wanted a wand that was more powerful than anyone else. Death carved him a rod of an elder branch - the Elder Wand ( Elder wall . "Elder" (dt elderberry ), but also older and the oldest ). The second wanted the power to raise the dead and received the resurrection stone. The youngest finally wanted to be able to hide from death and was given death's own invisibility cloak. The gifts did not bring the two older brothers the success they had hoped for and so they quickly made death their own. The third brother, however, lived a long and peaceful life until, as an old man, he took off his invisibility cloak and passed it on to his son. So finally death found him and he died.
The Elder Wand, Resurrection Stone and Invisibility Cloak are known in the wizarding world as the so-called "Deathly Hallows", but hardly anyone believes that they really exist - including Hermione in the beginning. But the legend has a true core: Harry realizes that, without knowing it, he has been in possession of one of the sanctuaries for years - the Invisibility Cloak, which he inherited from his father. But before they can give any further thought, they realize that Xenophilius is hiding a secret from them. Death Eaters are holding his daughter Luna hostage and he wants to trigger her by handing Harry, Ron and Hermione over. Called Death Eaters attack the house, but manage to escape again.
A short time later, Harry pronounces the name "Voldemort" again for the first time. This leads to their immediate discovery, as the word has been placed under a taboo curse. Grabbers (bounty hunters) take them prisoner together with the equally volatile Dean Thomas and the goblin Griphook and bring them to the Malfoys estate. Bellatrix Lestrange recognizes Godric Gryffindor's sword among her belongings and panics as it should be safely in her dungeon in Gringotts . She has Ron and Harry locked in the basement while interrogating Hermione under torture. In the basement Harry meets the wandmaker Ollivander and Luna. Harry sees an eye in a shard of his magic mirror and asks for help. Shortly afterwards, Dobby appears in the dungeon and helps Dean, Griphook, Luna and Ollivander to escape. Ron and Harry free Hermione; Harry defeats Draco Malfoy in a duel. The returned Dobby also rescues the trio and brings them to Fleurs and Bill's house on the coast of England. A knife thrown by Bellatrix Lestrange injures Dobby seriously and he dies. Harry later buries Dobby. Ollivander confirms to Harry that his wand has been irreparably destroyed. Instead, Harry uses the wand he took from Draco Malfoy.
From Bellatrix's panic reaction to the sword, the three conclude that there is another Horcrux in their dungeon in Gringott's wizarding bank. Together with Griphook, who used to work in Gringotts, they break in and, at great risk , secure the next Horcrux, Helga Hufflepuff's chalice. The three flee on the back of a blind dragon who guarded the bank's oldest dungeons.
Due to the still existing connection between Harry's and Voldemort's soul, Harry is able to read Voldemort's mind when he is very excited. So he finds out that Voldemort has taken the Elder Wand and that the last Horcrux is at Hogwarts. Since Voldemort has now understood because of the break-in at Gringotts that Harry is looking for his Horcruxes, he wants to check the other hiding places - most recently the one at Hogwarts, which he considers to be the safest place to keep. Harry, Ron and Hermione don't have much time left to find the Horcrux at Hogwarts. They Apparate to Hogsmeade and are almost discovered there because the village is under curfew. Dumbledore's brother Aberforth hides them in his inn and tells them about the childhood friendship between Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald . They also learn that it was Aberforth who sent Dobby to her rescue from the Malfoy manor and whose eye could always be seen in the shard of the mirror. He shows them the only unsupervised route to Hogwarts, a secret passage from his pub to the Room of Requirement . Almost all members of Dumbledore's Army (DA) await Harry there . Neville Longbottom also calls in the former members to notify the Order of the Phoenix . With Luna's help, Harry goes in search of the Horcrux suspected at Hogwarts - Rowena Ravenclaw's lost diadem .
The Battle of Hogwarts
Professor McGonagall puts Headmaster Severus Snape to flight. The incoming members of the Order, the teachers and the DA then organize the evacuation of the younger students and the defense of Hogwarts. Voldemort gives the ultimatum that if Harry surrenders himself to him, he would spare everyone else so as not to shed too much magical blood. However, the remaining defenders choose to fight to give Harry time to do his job. In the meantime, Ron and Hermione destroy Helga Hufflepuff's chalice in the Chamber of Secrets with the fang of the basilisk that was killed there. The battle begins and Harry realizes that the Horcrux he is looking for must be hidden in the Room of Hidden Things, a special manifestation of the Room of Requirement that Voldemort believes only he knows. He enters the room with Hermione and Ron, but where Draco Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle lie in wait for them. Crabbe casts a demon fire spell that burns the room out completely. The Horcrux is also destroyed. Harry, Ron and Hermione save Draco and Goyle as they exit the burning room. Crabbe perishes in his own fire. The last Horcrux left is Voldemort's serpent Nagini.
Harry reads Voldemort's mind and realizes that he is in the Howling Shack. Together with Ron and Hermione, he overhears a conversation between Voldemort and Snape. He learns that the Elder Wand is not serving Voldemort as hoped, since Voldemort is not his true master. According to Voldemort, only the person who killed the previous owner of the elder wand could be its new master. Believing that Snape, who killed the last owner with Dumbledore, is the master of the wand, Voldemort lets Nagini loose on Snape. Then he leaves the hut. Dying, Snape leaves Harry some of his memories for the Pensieve , while Voldemort issues another ultimatum: The attack will be interrupted for an hour, then Harry should appear for the duel in the Forbidden Forest. Snape's memories explain Dumbledore's unwavering trust in Snape, who has always been utterly devoted to Dumbledore's double agent from the start. Even Dumbledore's "murder" happened at his express request, also because Dumbledore was cursed by his careless putting on of the Horcrux ring, which let him only live about a year. Snape loved Harry's mother Lily since childhood and could never forgive himself for betraying her. Snape had also sent the Patronus doe showing Harry the Gryffindor sword and had put the sword in the pond beforehand. Harry also learns that since the murder of his parents by Voldemort, he himself carries a part of Voldemort's soul that can only be destroyed if Harry lets himself be killed by Voldemort. Harry decides to sacrifice himself and goes into the forest. On the way he gives Neville the order to kill Voldemort's snake Nagini. He manages to open the Snitch that Dumbledore has bequeathed to him. In it he finds the broken Resurrection Stone , which he uses to summon the shadows of his parents, his godfather Sirius and Lupins. They accompany him on his last walk and encourage him.
Harry doesn't fight back when Voldemort puts the killing curse on him. He finds himself in a kind of in-between world, where he meets Dumbledore, who tells him his life story and explains his apparent betrayal. As planned, Harry is not dead because part of his mother's protection has also lived in Voldemort since Voldemort used his blood to resurrect. So let Harry's mother's victim live on in Voldemort, and Harry could not die while Voldemort lived. Attempting to kill Harry again destroyed the seventh and final Horcrux in Harry. Now he has the choice between living and fighting or death.
Back in life, Harry pretends to be dead. Voldemort places the supposedly dead person with the Cruciatus curse, which does not cause pain. Voldemort goes to the castle with his entourage. Hagrid, whom the Death Eaters captured earlier, has to carry Harry. Since Voldemort now feels safe, he has lifted the magical protective cage around Nagini. But even now the defenders of the castle do not want to give up. Neville refuses to submit to Voldemort's regime, whereupon the latter humiliates him with the summoned Sorting Hat . To everyone's surprise, the centaurs who have so far kept out of the fighting are now attacking. Other magical creatures of the forest as Thestrals and Sirius' hippogriff Buckbeak, Hagrid's half-brother and Grawp and more now added has come wizard support. In the mess, Harry hides under his Invisibility Cloak. Neville succeeds in pulling the sword of Godric Gryffindor out of the Sorting Hat, beheading Nagini and thus destroying the last Horcrux. The house-elves led by Kreacher also intervene in the battle in the great hall of the castle .
The Hogwarts defenders repel the Death Eaters, leaving Voldemort and Bellatrix to fight. Molly Weasley manages to kill Bellatrix. Harry now takes off the Invisibility Cloak and reappears to face Voldemort in the decisive battle. He explains to Voldemort that this is not the master of the Elder Wand, but Harry. Because Draco Malfoy had defeated Dumbledore before Snape's killing curse by magically stealing the powerful wand from him. Draco, who was never aware of the scope of his disarming spell "Expelliarmus" , was defeated by Harry himself a few weeks ago in the Malfoys mansion , and his wand now serves Harry. When it comes to the duel, Harry's disarming spell has an effect. Voldemort's killing curse bounces back on himself and he dies for good.
During the Victory Celebration, Harry, Ron and Hermione visit the Headmaster's Office again and speak to Dumbledore's portrait about the meaning of the Deathly Hallows . Unlike Dumbledore, Harry did not succumb to their dangerous fascination. Instead of trying to turn the Sanctuaries against Voldemort, he has stuck to the plan to destroy Voldemort via his Horcruxes. Although he is the legal owner and master of all sanctuaries (he has already thrown the Resurrection Stone away in the forest), Harry decides to keep only the Invisibility Cloak and to put the Elder Wand back in Dumbledore's grave after using it to repair his own destroyed wand. If Harry were not defeated by the time he died, no one would be able to use the full power of the staff.
epilogue
(According to JK Rowling, this last chapter was written when the first volume was written, but revised before publication.)
In the epilogue, which takes place 19 years later, Harry and Ginny Weasley and Ron and Hermione got married. Harry and Ginny's children are James Sirius, Albus Severus, and Lily Luna; the children of Ron and Hermione Rose and Hugo. At the start of the school year, everyone meets on the Hogwarts Express. While Lily and Hugo are too young to come along, the others get on the train to Hogwarts. At the train station Harry is greeted briefly by Draco Malfoy, who is accompanying his son Scorpius. Harry hasn't felt his scar in 19 years. The book ends with the words: "Everything was good" (in the original: "All was well").
List of figures killed
More characters die in this book than in any other book in the series. Those killed by name are shown in the following list.
| characters | killed by | Cause of death | Time and place of death |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charity Burbage | Lord Voldemort | Avada Kedavra | Death Eaters gather at Malfoy Estate |
|
Hedwig ,
Harry's snow owl |
a death eater | Avada Kedavra | While escaping from Little Whinging |
| Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody | Lord Voldemort | Avada Kedavra | While escaping from Little Whinging |
| Bathilda Bagshot | Lord Voldemort | unknown | Godric's Hollow , some time before Harry and Hermione's visit |
| Gregorovich | Lord Voldemort | Avada Kedavra | Gregorovich's house |
| Ted Tonks | Claws (bounty hunters) | Unknown | In the search for the "Mudbloods and the Blood Traitors" |
| Dirk Cresswell | Claws (bounty hunters) | Unknown | In the search for the "Mudbloods and the Blood Traitors" |
| Gornuk, goblin | Claws (bounty hunters) | Unknown | In the search for the "Mudbloods and the Blood Traitors" |
| Rufus Scrimgeour | Lord Voldemort or on his orders | Unknown | During the Death Eaters' takeover of the Ministry |
| Gellert Grindelwald | Lord Voldemort | Avada Kedavra | Nurmengard prison |
| Peter Pettigrew aka Wormtail | his own magical silver hand (a spell by Voldemort) | strangulation | In the basement of the Malfoy estate |
| Dobby , house elf | Bellatrix Lestrange | stabbed by Bellatrix's thrown knife | During the escape from the Malfoy mansion |
| Remus Lupine | Unknown | Unknown | The Battle of Hogwarts |
| Nymphadora Tonks (married Lupine) | Unknown | Unknown | The Battle of Hogwarts |
| Vincent Crabbe | yourself by accident | Demon fire (spell) | The Battle of Hogwarts,
in the room of desires |
| Fred Weasley | Death eater | Explosion by unspecified spell that partially collapses a corridor at Hogwarts | The Battle of Hogwarts |
| Severus Snape | Nagini | bitten by Nagini , on the orders of Voldemort | The Battle of Hogwarts, in the Howling Shack |
| Colin Creevey | Unknown | Unknown | The Battle of Hogwarts |
| Nagini , Voldemort's serpent | Neville Longbottom | Beheaded by Godric Gryffindor's sword | The Battle of Hogwarts |
| Bellatrix Lestrange | Molly Weasley | unspecified spell | The Battle of Hogwarts |
| Lord Voldemort | Harry Potter | Blocking of Avada Kedavra by the elder wand with the disarming spell Expelliarmus | The Battle of Hogwarts
The final Harry Potter versus Lord Voldemort |
A total of 54 people fighting Voldemort die at the Battle of Hogwarts and an unknown number on Voldemort's side. In the course of the book, some muggles are also killed in partly unknown ways.
List of Horcruxes found
| Horcrux | Created by the death of | Location | Destroyed by | How | Where destroyed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tom Riddle's diary | Moaning myrtle | Malfoy Estate (placed in Ginny's cauldron by Lucius Malfoy ) | Harry Potter | The fang of the basilisk | Chamber of Secrets at Hogwarts ( Book 2 ) |
| Marvolo [Vorlost] Gaunt's Ring (Resurrection Stone ) | Tom Riddle Sr. | Marvolo [Vorlost] Gaunt's house in Little Hangleton | Albus Dumbledore | Godric Gryffindor's sword | Headmaster's Office at Hogwarts (between Book 5 and Book 6 ) |
| Salazar Slytherin's locket | unknown | A cave on the English coast (salvaged from Regulus Black , kept by Kreacher , stolen from Mundungus Fletcher , extinguished by Dolores Umbridge , retrieved by Harry Potter and Hermione Granger ) | Ron Weasley | Godric Gryffindor's sword | Forest of Dean (Book 7) |
| Helga Hufflepuff's goblet | Hepzibah Smith | Bellatrix Lestrange's dungeon in Gringotts | Hermione Granger | The fang of the basilisk | Chamber of Secrets at Hogwarts (Book 7) |
| Diadem by Rowena Ravenclaw | an Albanian smallholder | Room of Requirement at Hogwarts | Vincent Crabbe | Demon fire (spell) | Room of Requirement at Hogwarts (Book 7) |
| Harry Potter | Lily Potter (unintentionally) | - | Lord Voldemort | Avada Kedavra (While Harry was destroyed by the curse of the Horcrux, Harry had a choice to survive) | Forbidden Forest at Hogwarts (Book 7) |
| Nagini | Bertha Jorkins | - | Neville Longbottom | Godric Gryffindor's sword | On the Hogwarts School Grounds (Book 7) |
The last (eighth) piece of Tom Riddle's soul stayed in Voldemort and was destroyed by himself when a killing curse he cast on Harry Potter fell back on himself.
Edition and issues
The book was pre-ordered 1.6 million times worldwide even before it was published, with the seventh part overtaking its predecessor. In Germany, there were a total of 450,000 pre-orders at the start of sales, 270,000 of them with the online bookseller Amazon . In the first five years after it was first published, 44 million copies were sold worldwide. The first edition of the British edition from Bloomsbury-Verlag comprised 2.6 million copies, the German-language first edition from Carlsen Verlag should amount to 3 million copies, according to the Clausen & Bosse printing company in Leck (North Friesland) . 800,000 copies were printed there, and further large print shops in Ulm and Thuringia were commissioned. In mid-October it was said that the publisher had re-ordered because of the great demand. The US edition by Scholastic- Verlag appeared in the US with an initial circulation of 14 million copies. The circulation of the Canadian edition is kept secret by the publisher Raincoast Books . The size of the circulation in the USA exceeds the previous record from 2005, when the sixth Harry Potter volume appeared with an initial circulation of 10.8 million. The sales figures reached a new record, in the first 24 hours 8.3 million copies were sold, after 10 days it was even 11.5 million.
The US edition of Scholastic has 759 pages, which is well above the number of the sixth volume (672), but also well below the 870 pages of the fifth volume. The British edition has 607 pages, the same number as the sixth volume. The discrepancy in the number of pages compared to the American edition is due to the fact that the number of pages in the British edition is lower due to appropriate formatting in order to protect the environment. There is also a small illustration for each chapter heading in the US edition. According to Carlsen Verlag, the German edition has 736 pages.
A partial edition of the British edition was printed in the GGP Media printing company in Pößneck (Thuringia).
English editions
- JK Rowling: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Bloomsbury, London 2007, ISBN 0-7475-9105-9 . (Hardcover) (Number 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list for 5 weeks in 2007 )
- JK Rowling: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Bloomsbury, London 2007, ISBN 0-7475-9106-7 . (Hardcover for adults)
German editions
- JK Rowling: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Carlsen, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 3-551-57777-3 . (Hardcover) (for 11 weeks in 2007 and 2008 at number 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list )
- JK Rowling: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Carlsen, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 3-551-55700-4 . (Hardcover for adults)
- JK Rowling: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Carlsen, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-551-55577-9 . ( Paperback )
- JK Rowling: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Carlsen, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-551-55747-6 . (New hardback edition for the 20th anniversary of the German editions)
Audio books
- English versions
- JK Rowling: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Bloomsbury Publishing, London 2007, ISBN 0-7475-9109-1 . (UK version, speaker Stephen Fry )
- JK Rowling: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Listening Library, 2007, ISBN 0-7393-6038-8 . (US version, speaker Jim Dale )
- German versions
- JK Rowling: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Der Hörverlag , Munich 2008, ISBN 3-86717-169-6 . (Speaker Rufus Beck )
- JK Rowling: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The Hörverlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-899-40828-7 . (newly read version, speaker Felix von Manteuffel )
filming
Unlike the previous books, the seventh volume of the Harry Potter series was filmed in two parts.
Web links
- Volume 7 chapter by chapter in the Harry Potter Wiki
- Stefan Mesch: Review on literaturkritik.de
- Raik Heckl: "The Tale of the Three Brothers" and the Idea of the Speaking Dead in the Harry Potter Novels (English; PDF; 17 kB)
- Review on zeit.de
- Review on knetfeder.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ HowStuffWorks.com Ed Grabianowski: The 21 Best-selling Books of All Time. Retrieved June 9, 2015
- ↑ www.aktiencheck.de Amazon.com: Worldwide 1.6 million pre-orders for the seventh Harry Potter volume , article from July 2, 2007, accessed on December 18, 2013
- ↑ Last Harry Potter volume beats everything again. Thousands of fans get hold of the book . On: Handelsblatt.com , October 28, 2007.
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung, edition from 12./13. January 2013.
- ↑ "Drama of the Gifted Child" . In: Spiegel Online , July 10, 2007.
- ↑ RP-online.de Young magicians in a shopping frenzy . Harry Potter: Magical Sales. Article dated October 28, 2007, accessed April 29, 2016
- ↑ DH sells 11.5 million copies in 10 days. In: MuggleNet. Archived from the original on October 28, 2007 ; accessed on March 2, 2016 .
- ↑ FAQ from Raincoast Books ( Memento from September 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on raincoast.com .
- ↑ Press release ( memento of June 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) from Scholastic Verlag on scholastic.com , March 15, 2007.