Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) [美国普通版]

作者简介：
J. K. (Jo) Rowling was born in Chipping Sodbury in the UK in 1965. Such a funny-sounding name for a birthplace may have contributed to her talent for collecting odd names.
She was quiet, freckly, short-sighted and not very good at sports. She even broke her arm playing netball. Her favourite subject by far was English, but she also liked languages.
Jo always loved writing more than anything. 'The first story that I ever wrote down, when I was five or six, was about a rabbit called Rabbit. He got the measles and was visited by his friends, including a giant bee called Miss Bee. And ever since Rabbit and Miss Bee, I have wanted to be a writer, though I rarely told anyone so. I was afraid they'd tell me I didn't have a hope.'
As she got older, Jo kept writing but she never showed what she had written to anyone, except for some of her funny stories that featured her friends as heroines.
Jo attended the University of Exeter in Devon where she studied French. When she was 25, Jo started writing a third novel ('I abandoned the first two when I realised how bad they were'). A year later, she went to Portugal to teach English, which she really enjoyed. Working afternoons and evenings, she had mornings free to write. The new novel was about a boy who was a wizard.
When she returned to the UK, Jo had a suitcase full of stories about Harry Potter. She moved to Edinburgh with her young daughter and worked as a French teacher. She also set herself a target: she would finish the 'Harry' novel and get it published. In 1996, one year after finishing the book, Bloomsbury bought Jo's first novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
'The moment I found out that Harry would be published was one of the best of my life,’ says Jo. A few months after 'Harry' was accepted for publication in Britain, an American publisher bought the rights for enough money to enable Jo to give up teaching and write full time - her life's ambition!

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我们可以预知将要发生什么
·We will find out what Dudley saw in Order of the Phoenix when he was attacked by the dementor.
·We will find out the true identity of R.A.B., though most fans are quite sure it's Sirius's brother, Regulus.
·We will see Viktor Krum again.
·We will find out a little bit more about Harry's Grandparents.
·We will find out what happened to Sirius' flying motorcycle, "but the real sleuths among us might be able to guess." Care to hazard a guess?
·Wormtail's life debt to Harry will come into play, somehow.
·We will find out what Lily and James did for a living. This piece of information is "important to a later plot." Possibly something Harry finds out during his visit to Godric's Hollow?
·The shroud that surrounds Snape will fall and we will see where his loyalties truly lie.
·One of Harry's classmates will go on to become a teacher, but it isn't "maybe the one you think, hint, hint, hint," and it isn't Ron, either. Our guess is Neville, but we'll see!
·We will find out something extremely important about Lily and James and it will have a direct effect on what Harry has to do. And no, conspiracy theorists, it's not that they were actually both working for Voldemort, an idea that sickened Ms. Rowling.
·We will see Dolores Umbridge again.
·We will see Rita Skeeter again. At the Edinburgh Book Festival, Rowling had this to say: "I actually quite like Rita. She is loathsome - morally, she's horrible - but I can't help admiring her toughness. She is very determined to do the job and there is something quite engaging about that. There is more to come on Rita."
·The last word of the book is "scar," though that may change with future edits.
·We will find out something "incredibly important" about Lily Potter.
·Harry's eye color will come into play. Also, JKR said that "he has his mother's eyes and that's very important in a future book."
·There is "more to the Sorting Hat" than what was presented in the first six books; we will "find out what it becomes" in book seven.
·Although Aunt Petunia is neither a witch nor a Squib, "there is a little bit more to her than meets the eye," and we will find out what that is.
·According to Jo, "one character got a reprieve, but I have to say two die that I didn't intend to die. A price has to be paid. We are dealing with pure evil. They don't target the extras, do they? They go for the main characters, or I do."
我们知道哪些事是真的，或者有可能发生的
·We may see Sirius again, but we do not know what form it will be in.
·"There is a character who does manage in desperate circumstances to do magic quite late in life, may perform magic in desperate circumstances." We know it's not Petunia (see below)...so, who is it?
·Book seven is predicted to be smaller than Order of the Phoenix. (JKRowling.com Feb. 28, 2006 diary entry)
·If Hogwarts reopens, yet another new teacher will take up the Defense Against the Dark Arts post; perhaps for as long as Professor Merrythought, assuming Harry vanquishes Voldemort.
·Fawkes will likely play a vital role in book 7.
·Harry "might get a different pet."
不可能发生的事
·Harry will not become a Hogwarts Headmaster.
·Snape will not be revealed to be a vampire.
·Voldemort will not be revealed to be Harry's, or any other character's, father. That's just sadistic.
·Draco and Hermione will not end up together, nor will they ever, in their wildest, most twisted dreams, even consider it.
·Aunt Petunia will not perform magic, because she is not a witch, nor will she ever be.
·Lupin will not reoccupy his role as Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.
·Wormtail will not use his silver hand to kill Lupin.
·The Sorting Hat is not a Horcrux.
·Neither Crookshanks nor Mrs. Norris is an Animagus.
·Harry is not a Metamorphmagus.
·Neither Dumbledore, nor any other character in the series, is another character who has come back from the future. If you remember, JKR cleverly wrote in Half-Blood Prince that in the Department of Mysteries skirmish in book five, all of the Ministry's Time Turners were destroyed, proving wrong the ridiculously complicated time-travel theories out there.
·Luna is not Snape's daughter.
·Nicolas Flamel will not teach potions at Hogwarts. He died, remember?
·Luna and Neville will not become a couple...what a shame!
·Harry is not related to Dumbledore.
·Lily Potter is not alive, and she never was a Death Eater.
·Neville is not Peter Pettigrew's son. Just because neither of them have won Witch Weekly's Most Charming Smile Award five times in a row doesn't mean they're related! Really, now...
Lupin is not a twin.

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