![]() By the time I reached the conclusion of the architecturally scaled final tome, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, with its multiplying MacGuffins-seven Horcruxes, three Deathly Hallows, two turtle doves -I confess I was glad to be done. The epic sweep (and increasingly epic length) of the final books proved, at least for myself, less congenial to Rowling’s talents than the taut plotting and drawing-room deduction of the earlier installments. In place of the sequential yet self-contained conundrums of the early books, the saga entered a longer narrative arc, as the war between good and evil that had lurked in the wings gradually assumed center stage. ![]() The final three books-perhaps inevitably, perhaps even wisely-gradually dispensed with Rowling’s original formula. ![]() That was for me, however, the series’ printed-word apogee. ![]() How the Movies Succeeded Where the Books Failed ![]() The 9 Strangest Harry Potter Controversies ![]()
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