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Author J. K. Rowling

Illustrators Jason Cockcroft (Bloomsbury)

Mary GrandPré(Scholastic)

Genre Fantasy

Publishers Bloomsbury (UK)

Arthur A. Levine/

Scholastic (US)

Raincoast (Canada)
 ¦eleased £ July £



Book no. Seven

Sales 44 million (worldwide)[ 

Story timeline £ July  ± £ May  and September £


Chapters 3 chapters and an epilogue

Pages 
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c   is the seventh and final of the c


novels written by British author J.
K. Rowling. The book was released on 21 July 2007, ending the series that began in 1997 with the publication
of c


  



!. This book chronicles the events directly following c


  

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 (2005), and leads to the long-awaited final confrontation between Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort.

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c   was published in the United Kingdom by Bloomsbury Publishing, in the United
States by Scholastic, in Canada by Raincoast Books, and in Australia and New Zealand by Allen & Unwin. Released
globally in ninety-three countries,  
c   broke sales records as the fastest-selling book ever. It sold 15
million copies in the first twenty-four hours following its release,[1] including more than 11 million in the U.S. and U.K.
alone. The previous record, nine million in its first day, had been held by c


  
c "# 
[2]

. The novel has also been translated into numerous languages,
[3] [4] [5] [6]
including Ukrainian, Swedish, Polish and Hindi.

Several awards were given to the novel, including the 2008 Colorado Blue Spruce Book Award, and it was listed as a
[7]
"Best Book for Young Adults" by the American Library Association. Reception to the book was generally positive,
although some reviewers found the characters to be repetitive or unchanging. A two-part film based on the novel is in
the works, with part one's release date in November 2010.

Contents

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 Contents

Y . Epigraphs

Y .£ Dedication

Y .3 Plot introduction

Y .4 Plot summary

Y . Epilogue

Y . Rowling's commentary and supplement

£ Background

Y £. Choice of title

Y £.£ Rowling on finishing the book

3 Release

Y 3. Marketing and promotion

Y 3.£ Spoiler embargo

Y 3.3 Online leaks and early delivery

Y 3.4 Price wars and other controversies

4 Publication and reception

Y 4. Critical response

Y 4.£ Sales

Y 4.3 Awards and honours

 Translations

 Film adaptation

 See also

 References

 External links

Contents

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For the first time in the series, Rowling placed two epigraphs at the beginning of the book. The first is a passage from
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All the books in the Harry Potter series have dedications. On the dedication page for this book, the unusual layout

resembles the shape of Harry's scar.

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Throughout the six previous novels in the Harry Potter series, the main character, Harry Potter, has struggled with the
inherent difficulties of adolescence along with being a famous wizard. When Harry was a baby, Lord Voldemort, a
powerful evil wizard, murdered Harry's parents but mysteriously vanished after attempting to kill Harry. This results in
Harry's immediate fame, and his being placed in the care of his muggle, or non-magical, relatives Aunt
Petunia and Uncle Vernon.

Harry re-enters the wizarding world at age 11, enrolling in the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He makes
friends with Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, and is soon confronted by Lord Voldemort, who is trying to regain
power (and a body). Returning to school after summer break, there are several attacks on students after the
legendary "Chamber of Secrets" is thought to be opened. Harry ends the attacks by killing a Basilisk and defeating
Lord Voldemort's "memory" stored in an enchanted diary. The following year, Harry hears that he has been targeted
by escaped murderer Sirius Black. Despite stringent security measures at Hogwarts, Harry is confronted by Black at
the end of his third year of schooling and Harry learns that Black was framed and is his godfather. Harry's fourth year
of school sees him entered in a dangerous magical competition called the Triwizard Tournament. At the conclusion of
the Tournament, Harry witnesses the return of Lord Voldemort to full strength. When the next school year begins, the
Ministry of Magic appoints Dolores Umbridge as the new High Inquisitor of Hogwarts. After forming an underground
student group in opposition to Umbridge, Harry and several of his friends face off against Voldemort's Death Eaters,
a group of Dark witches and wizards, and narrowly defeat them. In Harry's sixth year of school, he learns that
Voldemort has been using Horcruxes to become immortal. Horcruxes are fragments of the soul that are placed within
an object so that when the body dies, a part of the soul remains and the person can be regenerated or
resurrected.[8] However, the destruction of the creator's body leaves the wizard or witch in a state of half-life, without
corporeal form.[9] When returning from a mission to discover a Horcrux, Professor Dumbledore, the Headmaster of
the school and Harry's mentor, is murdered by Severus Snape, a teacher at the school with whom Harry is
consistently at odds and who Harry has suspected of being a Death Eater. At the conclusion of the book, Harry
pledges not to return to school the following year and to search for Horcruxes instead.

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Following Dumbledore's death, Voldemort has completed his ascension to power and gains control of the Ministry of
Magic. Harry, Ron, and Hermione drop out of school to find and destroy Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes. They
isolate themselves to ensure the safety of their family and friends. They do not have much knowledge about the
remaining Horcruxes except the possibility that two of them are objects that belonged to Hogwarts founders Rowena
Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff, and that the third is Nagini, Voldemort's snake familiar. The locations of the two
founders' objects are unknown, and Nagini is presumed to be with Voldemort himself. As they search for the
Horcruxes, the trio learn details about Dumbledore's past, as well as Snape's true motives.

The trio recovers the first of Voldemort's Horcruxes, Salazar Slytherin's locket, by infiltrating the Ministry of Magic.
They recover the Sword ofGodric Gryffindor; it is one of a few objects that can be used to destroy Horcruxes (being
dipped in Basilisk venom), and they use it to destroy the locket. In their travels the trio comes across a strange
symbol, which an eccentric wizard named Xenophilius Lovegood (father of Luna) tells them represents the mythical
Deathly Hallows. The Hallows are revealed to be three sacred objects: the Resurrection Stone, a stone with the
power to recall the dead to the world of the living; the Elder Wand, an unbeatable wand; and an infallible Invisibility
Cloak. Harry learns that Voldemort is seeking the Elder Wand, but is unaware of the Hallows and their significance.
The trio decides that discovering Voldemort's Horcruxes is more important than procuring the Hallows for themselves.
They break into Bellatrix Lestrange's vault at the Wizarding Bank Gringotts to recover another Horcrux, the cup of
Helga Hufflepuff. Harry learns that another Horcrux is hidden in Hogwarts, and Harry, Ron, and Hermione enter the
school. They find this Horcrux, the Diadem of Ravenclaw, and successfully destroy the cup and the diadem.

The book culminates in the Battle of Hogwarts. Harry, Ron, and Hermione, in conjunction with students and members
of the wizarding world opposed to the rise of Voldemort, defend Hogwarts from Voldemort, his Death Eaters, and
various magical creatures. Several major characters are killed in the first wave of the battle. Harry discovers that
Voldemort inadvertently made Harry a Horcrux when he attacked him as a baby, and that he will have to die to
destroy Voldemort. Harry surrenders himself to Voldemort, who attacks Harry with the Killing Curse, sending Harry to
a sort of Limbo between life and death. There, Harry meets Dumbledore who explains that because Voldemort used
Harry's blood to regain his full strength, Harry is protected from any harm that Voldemort could commit against him,
meaning that the Horcrux inside Harry is destroyed, but Harry can return to his body despite being hit by the Killing
Curse. Harry then returns to his body, the battle resumes, and after the last remaining Horcrux is destroyed, Harry is
able to defeat Voldemort.

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Nineteen years later, Harry and Ginny Weasley are married and have three children: James Sirius, Albus Severus,
and Lily Luna. Ronmarried Hermione and has two children, Rose and Hugo. The families meet at King's Cross
station, where a nervous Albus is departing for his first year at Hogwarts. Harry's godson, Teddy Lupin, is found
kissing Victoire Weasley (Bill and Fleur's daughter) in a train carriage. Harry sees Draco Malfoy and his wife Astoria
Greengrass (revealed on Rowling's website behind the door) with their son, Scorpius. Neville Longbottom is now the
Hogwarts Herbology professor and remains friends with the two families. Harry comforts Albus, who is worried he will
be sorted into Slytherin, and tells his son that one of his two namesakes, Severus Snape, was a Slytherin and the
bravest man he had ever met. He adds that the Sorting Hat takes one's choice into account, like it did for Harry. The
book ends with these final words: "The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well."


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[10]
In an interview, online chat,[11][12][13] the Wizard of the Month section of her website, and during her 2007 U.S. Open
Book Tour, Rowling revealed additional character information that she chose not to include in the book. The first bits
of information were about the trio and their families, starting with Harry.

She said that Harry became an Auror for the Ministry of Magic, and was later appointed head of the department. He
also kept Sirius Black's motorcycle, which Arthur Weasley repaired for him, but he can no longer
speak Parseltongue after the destruction of Voldemort's soul fragment within him. She revealed that Ginny
Weasley played for the Holyhead Harpies Quidditch team for a time, leaving to establish a family with Harry. She later
became the lead Quidditch correspondent for the  

. Ron Weasley worked at George's store for a
time, Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes, then joined Harry as an Auror. Hermione found her parents in Australia, and
removed the memory modification charm she had put on them for safety. Initially, she worked for the Ministry of
Magic in the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, greatly improving life for house elves.
She later moved to the Department of Magical Law Enforcement and assisted in eradicating oppressive, pro-
pureblood laws. She was also the only member of the trio to go back and complete her seventh year at Hogwarts.
Rowling also explained that Dumbledore's relationship with Gellert Grindelwald extended beyond mere friendship;
indeed, Rowling has revealed that "Dumbledore is gay, actually",[14] and harbored romantic feelings for
Grindelwald.[15] Voldemort, she said, was forced to exist in the stunted form Harry witnessed in the King's
Cross limbo after his death, as his crimes were too severe for him to become a ghost.

Rowling also explained the fates of several secondary characters. George Weasley continued his successful joke
shop and married fellow Quidditch player Angelina Johnson. The couple had two children: a son named Fred, in
memory of his late twin brother, and a daughter, Roxanne. Luna Lovegood searched the world for odd and unique
creatures, eventually marrying Rolf, a grandson of the famed naturalist Newt Scamander,[13] writer of   
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. The couple had twins called Lorcan and Lysander. Her father's publication, ü

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, returned to its usual condition of "advanced lunacy" and is "appreciated for its unintentional humour."

Other character histories revealed by Rowling included that of Draco Malfoy, who married Astoria Greengrass and
had a son named Scorpius. Percy Weasley married a woman named Audrey and had two daughters, named Molly
and Lucy. Firenze was welcomed back into his herd, who finally acknowledged the virtue of his pro-human
leanings. Dolores Umbridge was arrested, interrogated, and imprisoned for crimes against Muggle-borns. Cho
[16]
Chang went on to marry a Muggle. Neville Longbottom became professor of Herbology at Hogwarts and
[17]
married Hannah Abbott, who became the landlady of the Leaky Cauldron. Bill and Fleur Weasley had a total of
three children, a younger son named Louis, and two daughters, named Dominique and Victoire.

In the wider wizarding world other changes included: Kingsley Shacklebolt became the permanent Minister of Magic,
with Percy Weasley working under him as a high official. Among the reforms introduced by Shacklebolt, was the
removal of Dementors from the wizard prison Azkaban. Harry, Ron, and Hermione were also instrumental in
 [11]
reforming the Ministry. At Hogwarts, Slytherin House became more diluted and no longer held the title as the pure-
[11]
blood bastion it once was, although its dark reputation lingered. Voldemort's jinx on the Defense Against the Dark
Arts position was broken with his death, and there was a permanent Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher
appointed. Harry also is said to come to the Defense Against the Dark Arts class to lecture several times a
[10]
year. Lastly, Rowling revealed that a portrait of Severus Snape, who briefly served as Hogwarts Headmaster, had
not appeared in the headmaster's office, as he had abandoned his post. Harry later ensured the addition of Snape's
[11]
portrait, and publicly revealed Snape's true allegiance to Dumbledore.

Background

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Shortly before releasing the title, J. K. Rowling announced that she had considered three titles for the book.[11][18] The

final title, c


  

 
c   was released to the public on 21 December 2006 via a special
Christmas-themed hangman puzzle on Rowling's website, confirmed shortly afterwards by the book's
publishers.[19] Asked during a live chat as to the other titles she had been considering, Rowling mentioned c



  
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Rowling completed the book while staying at the Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh in January 2007, and left a signed

statement on a marble bustof Hermes in her room which read: )*+ 
 
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,-.//) 
.00.[20] In a statement on her website, she said, "I've never felt
such a mixture of extreme emotions in my life, never dreamed I could feel simultaneously heartbroken and euphoric."
She compared her mixed feelings to those expressed by Charles Dickens in the preface of the 1850 edition of   
1
 , "a two-years' imaginative task." "To which," she added, "I can only sigh, try seventeen years, Charles..."
She ended her message, " 
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When asked before publication about the forthcoming book, Rowling stated that she could not change the ending
even if she wanted. "ü
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previous book in the series, c


  
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, "almost as though they are two halves of the
same novel."[23] She has said that the last chapter of the book was written "in something like 1990", as part of her
earliest work on the series.[24]

Release



  
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Jacket art of Scholastic (US) edition.

The launch was celebrated by an all-night book signing and reading at the Natural History Museum in London, which
Rowling attended along with 1700 guests chosen by ballot.[25] Rowling toured the US in October 2007, where another
event was held at Carnegie Hall in New York with tickets allocated by sweepstake.[26]

Scholastic, the American publisher of the Harry Potter series, launched a multi-million dollar "There will soon be 7"
marketing campaign with a 'Knight Bus' travelling to forty libraries across the United States, online fan discussions
and competitions, collectible bookmarks, tattoos, and the staged release of seven 
c   questions most
debated by fans.[27] In the build-up to the book's release, Scholastic released seven questions that fans would find
[28]
answered in the final book:

1. Who will live? Who will die?

2. Is Snape good or evil?

3. Will Hogwarts reopen?

4. Who ends up with whom?

5. Where are the Horcruxes?

6. Will Voldemort be defeated?

7. What are the Deathly Hallows?

Scholastic also hosted "Harry Potter Place"²a magical and interactive street celebration at Scholastic headquarters
in New York City, where the first U.S. signed edition of  
c   was unveiled on 20 July 2007. The festivities
included a twenty foot (six metre) high Whomping Willow, face-painting, wand-making, fire-eaters, magicians,
jugglers and stilt-walkers.[29]

J. K. Rowling arranged with her publishers for a poster bearing the face of the missing British child Madeleine
McCann to be made available to book sellers when  
c   was launched on 21 July 2007 and said that she
[30]
hoped that the posters would be displayed prominently in shops all over the world.

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Rowling made a public request that anyone with information about the content of the last book should keep it to
themselves, in order to avoid spoiling the experience for other readers.[31] To this end, Bloomsbury
invested GB£10 million in an attempt to keep the book's contents secure until the 21 July release date.[32] Arthur
Levine, U.S. editor of the c


series, denied distributing any copies of  
c   in advance for press
[33]
review, but two U.S. papers published early reviews anyway. There was speculation that some shops would break
the embargo and distribute copies of the book early, as the penalty imposed for previous instalments²that the
[34]
distributor would not be supplied with any further copies of the series²would no longer be a deterrent.


  
  

 
In the week before its release, a number of texts purporting to be genuine leaks appeared in various forms. On 16
July, a set of photographs representing all 759 pages of the U.S. edition was leaked and was fully transcribed prior to
the official release date. The photographs later appeared on websites and peer-to-peer networks,
[39]
leading Scholastic to seek a subpoena in order to identify one source. This represented the most serious security
[40]
breach in the Harry Potter series' history. Rowling and her lawyer confirmed that there were genuine online
[41]
leaks. Reviews published in both ü
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5 6
2ü on 18 July 2007 corroborated many
of the plot elements from this leak, and about one day prior to release, ü
5 6
2ü confirmed that the main
[40]
circulating leak was real.

Scholastic announced that approximately one-ten-thousandth (0.0001) of the U.S. supply had been shipped early ²
interpreted to mean about 1,200 copies. One reader in Maryland received a copy of the book in the mail from
DeepDiscount.com four days before it was launched, which evoked incredulous responses from both Scholastic and
DeepDiscount. Scholastic initially reported that they were satisfied it had been a "human error" and would not discuss
possible penalties;[42] however, the following day Scholastic announced that it would be launching legal action against
DeepDiscount.com and its distributor, Levy Home Entertainment.[43] Scholastic filed for damages in Chicago's Circuit
Court of Cook County, claiming that DeepDiscount engaged in a "complete and flagrant violation of the agreements
that they knew were part of the carefully constructed release of this eagerly awaited book."[44] Some of the early
release books soon appeared on eBay, in one case being sold to 

&2 for US$250 from an initial price
of US$18.[45]

In Nurmes, Finland, a supermarket sold copies of the English edition as early as 19 July, apparently owing to a
misunderstanding on the part of an employee.

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[46][47]
Asda, along with several other UK supermarkets, had already taken pre-orders for the book at a heavily
discounted price. Asda then sparked a price war two days before the book's launch by announcing they would sell it
for just GB£5 a copy (about US$8). Other retail chains then also offered the book at discounted prices. At these
prices the book became a loss leader. This caused uproar from traditional UK booksellers who argued they had no
hope of competing in those conditions. Independent shops protested loudest, but evenWaterstone's, the UK's largest
dedicated chain bookstore, could not compete with the supermarket price. Some small bookstores hit back by buying
their stock from the supermarkets rather than their wholesalers. Asda attempted to counter this by imposing a limit of
two copies per customer to prevent bulk purchases. Philip Wicks, a spokesman for the UK Booksellers Association,
said, "It is a war we can't even participate in. We think it's a crying shame that the supermarkets have decided to treat
it as a loss-leader, like a can of baked beans." Michael Norris, an analyst at Simba Information, said: "You are not
[48]
only lowering the price of the book. At this point, you are lowering the value of reading."

[49]
In Malaysia, a similar price war caused controversy regarding sales of the book. Four of the biggest bookstore
chains in Malaysia, MPH Bookstores, Popular Bookstores, Times and Harris, decided to pull c


  

 
c   off their shelves as a protest against Tesco and Carrefour hypermarkets. The retail price of the book
in Malaysia is MYR 109.90 (about GB£16), while the hypermarketsTesco and Carrefour sold the book at MYR 69.90
(about GB£10). The move by the bookstores was seen as an attempt to pressure the distributor Penguin Books to
remove the books from the hypermarkets. However, as of 24 July 2007, the price war has ended, with the four
bookstores involved resuming selling the books in their stores with discount. Penguin Books has also confirmed that
[50]
Tesco and Carrefour are selling the book at a loss, urging them to practice good business sense and fair trade.

The book's early Saturday morning release in Israel was criticised for violating Shabbat. Trade and Industry
Minister Eli Yishai commented "It is forbidden, according to Jewish values and Jewish culture, that a thing like this
should take place at 2 a.m. on Saturday. Let them do it on another day."[51] Yishai indicated that he would issue
indictments and fines based on the Hours of Work and Rest Law.[52]

Publication and reception

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! s critic, Mary Carole McCauley, praised the series as "a classic bildungsroman, or coming-of-age

tale." She noted that the book was more serious than the previous novels in the series and had more straightforward
[53]
prose. Furthermore, reviewer Alice Fordham from ü
ü writes that "Rowling¶s genius is not just her total
realisation of a fantasy world, but the quieter skill of creating characters that bounce off the page, real and flawed and
brave and lovable." Fordham concludes, "We have been a long way together, and neither Rowling nor Harry let us
down in the end."[54] 5 6
2ü writer Michiko Kakutani agrees, praising Rowling's ability to make Harry both a
hero and a character that can be related to.[55]

ü magazine's Lev Grossman named it one of the Top 10 Fiction Books of 2007, ranking it at #8, and praising
Rowling for proving that books can still be a global mass medium. Grossman compared the novel to the earlier books
in the series thus: "This isn't the most elegant of the Potter volumes, but it feels like an ending, the final iteration of
Rowling's abiding thematic concern: the overwhelming importance of continuing to love in the face of
[56][57]
death." Novelist Elizabeth Hand agreed that c


  
 
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made the criticism that "...the spectacularly complex interplay of narrative and character often reads as though an
[58]
entire trilogy's worth of summing-up has been crammed into one volume."

In contrast, Jenny Sawyer of the 1

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says that, "There is much to love about the Harry Potter
series, from its brilliantly realised magical world to its multilayered narrative," however, "A story is about someone
who changes. And, puberty aside, Harry doesn't change much. As envisioned by Rowling, he walks the path of good
[59]
so unwaveringly that his final victory over Voldemort feels, not just inevitable, but hollow." In the 12 August
2007 5 6
2ü, Christopher Hitchens compared the series to World War Two-era English boarding school
stories, and while he wrote that "Rowling has won imperishable renown" for the series as a whole, he also stated that
he disliked Rowling's use of deus ex machina, that the mid-book camping chapters are "abysmally long", and that
[60]
Voldemort "becomes more tiresome than an Ian Fleming villain."

Stephen King criticised the reactions of some reviewers to the books, including McCauley, for jumping too quickly to
[61]
surface conclusions of the work. He felt this was inevitable, because of the extreme secrecy before launch which
did not allow reviewers time to read and consider the book, but meant that many early reviews lacked depth. Rather
than finding the writing style disappointing, he felt it had matured and improved. He acknowledged that the subject
matter of the books had become more adult, and that Rowling had clearly been writing with the adult audience firmly
in mind since the middle of the series. He compared the works in this respect to c2

 and 
& 
  which achieved success and have become established classics, in part by appealing to the adult
audience as well as children.

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Lines at Borders at midnight to buy the book

Sales for c


  

 
c   were record setting. The initial U.S. print run for  
c   was
12 million copies, and more than a million were pre-ordered through Amazon and Barnes & Noble.[62] On 12 April
2007, Barnes & Noble declared that  
c   had broken its pre-order record, with more than 500,000 copies
pre-ordered through its site.[63] On opening day, a record 8.3 million copies were sold in the United States (over 96
[64][65] [66]
per second), and 2.65 million copies in the United Kingdom. At WH Smith, sales reportedly reached a rate of
 [67]
15 books sold per second. By June 2008, nearly a year after it was published, worldwide sales were reportedly
[68]
around 44 million.






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c   has won several awards. In 2007, the book was named one New York Times
[69] [70]
100 Notable Books, and one of its Notable Children's Books. Publishers Weekly also listed c


  

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c   among their Best Books of 2007. In 2008, the American Library Associationnamed the novel one
[72] [73]
of its Best Books for Young Adults, and also listed it as a Notable Children's Book. Furthermore, c



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c   received the 2008 Colorado Blue Spruce Book Award.

Translations

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Due to c


  
 
c   worldwide fame, it has been translated into many languages. The first
translation to be released was the Ukrainian translation, on 25 September 2007 (as Ƚɚɪɪɿ ɉɨɬɬɟɪ ɿ ɫɦɟɪɬɟɥɶɧɿ
ɪɟɥɿɤɜɿʀ).[3] The Swedish title of the book was revealed by Rowling as c


  
 
(c




8 
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translating the two words " 
c  " without having read the book.[4] This is also the title used for the French
translation (c



9  
). The first Polish translation was released on 26 January
2008[5] with a new title:c


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. The Hindi translation c


 
 
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 i  ) translated as "Harry Potter

and the Gifts of Death" was released by Manjul Publication in India on 27 June 2008.[6]

Film adaptation

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A two-part film adaptation of c


  

 
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Part I is slated for release on 19 November 2010, and Part II on 15 July 2011.[75][76] The script was delayed as Steve
Kloves did not start working on it until the2007±2008 Writers Guild of America strike had ended.[77] Filming began in
February 2009 and ended on Saturday, 12 June 2010.[78]