Spoiler alert, the following discuss and reveal important plot lines in the series. Don’t read if you don’t want to know.
I have just concluded reading the Harry Potter books, years 1 thru 7, I do have to say it was an amazing story to read. I will someday reread them. It was a well written and engaging story, of good and evil, loyalty, friendship, and morality. These are some answers to what happens after the story concludes and some questions answered about the last book, Deathly Hallows.
Your ''Hallows'' questions, answered!
Still stumped after finishing ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows''? We tackle some nagging queries
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SPOILER ALERT! The following article contains plot details about book 7. Read at your own risk.
How did Godric Gryffindor's sword get into the Sorting Hat after Griphook the goblin took it? —Amy
The same way it got from Dumbledore's office into Harry's hand in book 2 —because Neville Longbottom is a true (and brave) Gryffindor.
Why was Draco the rightful owner of the Elder Wand? How did that work against Voldemort? —Nick
Deep breath: When Draco disarmed Dumbledore at the end of book 6, the Elder Wand — won by the headmaster when he dueled Grindelwald — passed its allegiance to young Malfoy, not to Snape, whose ''murder'' of Dumbledore was prearranged and therefore not a defeat. Then Harry won Draco's wand at Malfoy Manor. So when Voldemort tried to kill Harry with the Elder Wand and Harry countered using Draco's wand, the two wands effectively canceled each other out. The Elder Wand realized it was attacking Draco's wand, refused to act against its master, and rebounded the Killing Curse back onto Voldemort. The Dark Lord never had a chance.
Who was the ugly baby crying in King's Cross that Dumbledore said couldn't be helped? —Andrea
The dead portion of Voldemort's soul that had been a part of Harry.
Why wasn't Kreacher freed when Harry gave him Regulus' locket? —Jenny
A locket isn't clothing.
Students at the new Hogwarts had to prove their blood status to attend. So how did Muggle-born Colin Creevey manage to stay? —Maddie
He didn't. Colin likely returned for the battle along with other members of Dumbledore's Army (alerted by their enchanted Galleons).
Voldemort's kin, the Gaunts, had kept the Resurrection Stone; Harry's ancestors held the Invisibility Cloak. Since those items' original owners were brothers, are Voldemort and Harry related? —Sara
Perhaps, but there's been so much intermarrying among wizard families that we suspect nearly everyone with magical blood is related to some degree.
Harry and Ginny's kids are all named after figures from their past. So what's the significance of Ron and Hermione's kids' names, Rose and Hugo? —Jen
Beats us. Because they have the same first letters as their parents' monikers? Or Rowling just liked the names? Or she's a serious Lost fan?
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Editor's Note: This Associated Press story contains spoilers. If you'd rather not know what happens in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," stop reading now.
"Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling thought of the idea on a train trip in 1990.
She told fans Monday what she thinks happened to many of the book's characters after the final installment.
In a 90-minute live Web chat, she fielded some of the approximately 120,000 questions submitted by devotees. It was her first public comment since "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" -- the last book in the series -- debuted on July 21.
Rowling said she was elated to share with fans the secrets she'd been harboring since she conjured up the idea for the boy wizard during a train journey across
"It is great to be able to do this at last," she said. "I've looked forward to it for so long!"
"Deathly Hallows" sold over 10 million copies in its first weekend. All seven books in the blockbuster series have sold a combined 335 million copies worldwide. 
In the novel -- which centers on Harry's journey to kill Lord Voldemort, the most powerful dark wizard of all time -- the young wizard learns of three powerful magical objects called the Deathly Hallows that, when combined, will make their owner the Master of Death, meaning he or she accepts mortality without fear.
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Rowling said in the online chat the hallows were in part inspired by "The Pardoner's Tale," one of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" about greed and death.
Rowling shared with fans, many of whom said they'd read the final book several times in the last week, where she imagines their favorite characters went after the series' conclusion.
SPOILER ALERT: Those who do not wish to know what happens to the characters after the book ends should stop reading here.
Rowling said the world was a sunnier, happier place after the seventh book and the death of Voldemort.
Harry Potter, who always voiced a desire to become an Auror, or someone who fights dark wizards, was named head of the Auror Department under the new wizarding government headed by his friend and ally, Kingsley Shacklebolt.
His wife, Ginny Weasley, stuck with her athletic career, playing for the Holyhead Harpies, the all-female Quidditch team. Eventually, Ginny left the team to raise their three children -- James, Albus and Lily -- while writing as the senior Quidditch correspondent for the wizarding newspaper, the Daily Prophet.
Harry's best friend Ron Weasley joined his brother, George, as a partner at their successful joke shop, Weasley's Wizard Wheezes. Hermione Granger, Ron's wife and the third person of the series' dark wizard fighting trio, furthered the rights of subjugated creatures, such as house elves, in the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures before joining the magical law enforcement squad. The couple had two children -- Rose and Hugo.
Luna Lovegood, Harry's airily distracted friend with a love for imaginary animals who joins the fight against Voldemort in the Order of the
And what Muggle, or non-wizard, song would have been played at the funeral of Albus Dumbledore, the most brilliant and talented wizard the world had ever known?
"Surely 'I Did It My Way' by Frank Sinatra," Rowling told her fans, referring to the song "My Way," written by Paul Anka but popularized by Sinatra, among other singers.
As the chat wrapped up, Rowling thanked readers for their loyalty to the series.
"What can I say? Thank you so much for sticking with me, and with Harry, for so long. You have made this an incredible journey for Harry's author."
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