Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
by J. K. Rowling · first published 2007
14% recommend79% neutral7% critical
Harry Potter is leaving Privet Drive for the last time. But as he climbs into the sidecar of Hagrid’s motorbike and they take to the skies, he knows Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters will not be far behind. The protective charm that has kept him safe until now is broken. But the Dark Lord is breathing fear into everything he loves. And he knows he can’t keep hiding. To stop Voldemort, Harry knows he must find the remaining Horcruxes and destroy them. He will have to face his enemy in one final battle. ([source][1])
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on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2015?” ↗> Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Man... there is way too much deus ex machina at every plot point of that book to give it any credit. If you have the end of the 6th book as a starting point and the end of series that Rowling had in…
on “Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?” ↗Yeah it's weird; I have a fairly vivid recollection of a picture of page 606 of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", in a blurry photograph taken against a carpet (this is where Snape kills Dumbledore); I can generally remember where on a page I read a passage in a book; but there's no way I "see" the page. Ditto…
on “Aphantasia: 'My mind's eye is blind'” ↗> One thing we need to understand when building websites optimised for reading is that text is small. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is a pretty thick book by most measures, and only clocks in at about 500kb of text. How is it that this review of 1/18th of the book on Medium is 5.4 times the size of the entire book? I copy-pasted…
on “Big Fat Websites (2021)” ↗…conservation occurring there. Many things 'conjured' there does not last very long, and even to get them into existence requires energy from the summoner. In fact, it specifically mentions in the last book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Hermoine states a conservation law about why wizards can't conjure food. (Don't remember which one.) I hope this answers your question.
on “The Harry Potter Economy” ↗…big pinch of salt. Book sales spiked, coincidentally, around 2007-08, however year-on-year sales are still going up. Why the coincidental 2007-08 date for one of the biggest spikes in print publishing? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, it had 500% pre-sale figures of Half-Blood Prince. Despite being a supporter of ebooks, owning a Kindle and reading a lot, I still take Amazon's announcement with a whole bag of salt, because even a…
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on “Ayn Rand’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” ↗…200 pages of nice 20lb paper, bound with sewing and combines with a cardboard cover into a book costs roughly $3 in reasonable quantities, costs $20 when the ink is used to print J.K. Rowlings story of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows? Clearly the same package with my scribbling about wizards and magic would likely not even be valued at enough to cover the $3 printing cost :-). So it is clear that the information has an intrinsic…
on “Major book publishers sue Amazon’s Audible over new speech-to-text feature” ↗I'm reminded of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Choosing the Resurrection Stone only leads to pain.
on “Resurrecting loved ones as AI 'ghosts' could harm your mental health” ↗…was never very keen of non-fiction books. The reason is because I could usually just watch it in movie format which is a lot less time-consuming. The last fiction book I read (over a decade ago) was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and the reason I read it is because I had watched all the previous Harry Potter films and wanted to know what happens but the movie didn't exist yet at the time. I was hooked and there was literally no…
on “Book people think they know why 9-year-olds stop reading for fun” ↗I always liked that idea (not original, I know) in the Harry Potter books (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, more specifically), where two people ask a private question they should only know to be sure they are not being impersonated.
on “Deep Live Cam: Real-time face swapping and one-click video deepfake tool” ↗Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Midnight release, read until the sun came up...and kept going? Not sure exactly how many hours, maybe 9 or 10?
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