review of Rowling's harry potter and the deathly hallows

Review of Rowling’s Harry potter and the deathly hallows

A beautiful end to a splendid series. The characters are fully dimensional. The plot is thick and yet, doesn't go over the head of the reader. The themes are appropriate and important for the age groups that are targeted. The main things to look at in this book are the horcruxes and the hallows. They are the representations of human vanity and vice.  They also show the goodness of people when looked at from a different angle.

The horcruxes are a diary, ring, locket, cup, diadem, snake, and person.  They each represent something great and each is something great in its own right. The diary is supposed to hold a sense of privacy and closeness to the heart. It is only appropriate that he puts a piece of his soul within it first. The diary is an item that holds thoughts and hopes.  They hold futures.   Voldemort’s diary held a part of himself as a teenager.  His hope for the future could be found within and with himself.  He knew or thought it even then.  It is ironic when Harry destroys the diary with a Basilisk fang because the snake is something that Voldemort could understand.  It is a solitary creature much like himself that is mesmerizing and yet, frightening to others. The diadem is a sign of royalty or being of a higher birth and so Voldemort using it was only logical.  The ring is an item to be worn with a sense of ownership or title. The locket is something to hold memories of those lost. The cup represents a sense of taking and receiving.

The hallows are important because they are a great morality tale for how fear should be handled. It is not death that is truly what they are trying to defeat, but fear. Fear is what drives them to choose as they do except for the last brother who is wiser than the other brothers. The first brother chose the elder wand which he wanted to use as a weapon and not as a sort of defense. The second brother chose the resurrection stone, so that he could then bring back what they see as stolen from them. The third brother chose the cloak of invisibility, so that he could hide from death and embrace it when they are prepared.