Harry Potter 6 and 7...?!
Question:
Harry Potter 6 and 7...?
What happens in the Harry Potter books # 6 and #7? Spill all the IMPORTANT details for both books....PLEASE and thanks!
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Well, the most important thing about Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) is that Dumbledore tells Harry about Voldemort's horcuxes, which are essentially objects in which Voldemort has placed a peice of his soul, thus preventing him to be killed until all of his horcruxes are destroyed. He tells Harry that Voldemort intended to split his soul into seven pieces, which are 1. his body, 2. the snake, Nagini, 3. the diary that Harry destroyed in Chamber of Secrets, 4. The ring of Marvolo Gaunt, Voldemort's grandfather, and a descendant of Slytherin, 5. A cup that belonged to Hufflepuff, 6. A locket with Slytherin's mark on it that belonged to Voldemort's mother, and 7. the diadem of Ravenclaw (like a tiara). Two of them are already destroyed, the diary and the ring, and Dumbledore takes Harry to find the locket, but the one they find turns out to be a fake, and when they get back to Hogwarts Snape kills Dumbledore. And that's where the 6th book ends.
In the seventh book we follow Harry's quest to find the rest of the Horcruxes. He destroys the locket and the cup, but deduces that the diadem is at Hogwarts, which is currently under Snape's control since Voldemort has taken over the ministry. He sneaks into Hogwarts and destroys the diadem, but then Voldemort finds out he's there and lays seige to the castle. Harry finds out that Voldemort is in the Shrieking Shack and he sneaks in and sees Snape there. Voldemort kills Snape so that Voldemort can take posession of the Elder Wand (because wands will obey the will of a new master if that person has rightfully taken the wand from the orginal owner (in other words, stealing it or being given a wand from someone else won't work) because he believes that Snape is the posessor of the Elder Wand because he killed Dumbledore. (I'll explain the Elder Wand in a second). However, since Dumbledore had actually surrendered to Draco Malfoy, not Snape, the wand doesn't work for him as it should (though Voldemort doesn't find this out until later). As Snape lies there dying, Voldemort leaves and Harry enters. Snape makes Harry take his memories so that Harry will understand why Snape did what he did. In these memories Harry discovers that while Snape has always hated his father, he was in love with Lily, Harry's mother, and had been since before they went to Hogwarts together. We also find out that the curse that Dumbledore was afflicted by when he put on the ring that had been a horcrux, was only stopped by Snape temporarily, and couldn't be permanently stopped, therefore Dumbledore only had a year to live, and had asked Snape to kill him if he were in a situation where otherwise he would be tortured and humiliated. So that's why Snape killed Dumbledore. We also find out that Voldemort accidentally made another horcrux when he attempted to kill Harry - Harry himself. Which means that Harry has to die before Voldemort can die. So Harry gives himself up to Voldemort, who kills him, but because of the nature of his death, Harry is given the choice to move on or go back, and Harry chooses to go back. So Voldemort walks up to the castle with his followers and Harry's body, and Neville, having been told previously by Harry that Voldemort couldn't be killed until the snake was killed, kills the snake. Then Harry stops pretending to be dead and Voldemort and he get into a dual and when Voldemort tries to kill Harry, the curse rebounds because Harry died to save humanity, thus giving everyone in the world, including himself, the same protection that his mother had given him (it might be a bit more complicated then that, but this is long enough already), and Voldemort essentially kills himself.
In the epilogue we see Ron and Hermione (married) and Harry and Ginny (married) sending their kids off to Hogwarts.
The Elder Wand is supposed to be a super evil, powerful wand, one of the three deathly hallows. One of which is an invisibility cloak that never fails to time or spell, which happens to be the one Harry inherited from his father as a descendant of the original creator of the hallows, the other is the elder wand, which Dumbledore had taken when he vanquished a dark wizard, and a stone that can bring back people who have died (though only in a bodyless form, rather like how everyone came back in Goblet of Fire when Harry and Voldemort's wand connected). This turns out to be the ring that had been Marvolo Gaunts. Together they offer the wizard who posesses them great power, which is what had tempted Dumbledore. In the end, though. Harry winds up the owner of the Elder Wand (he took it from Draco in a duel) and he puts it back in Dumbledore's tomb, so that as long as Harry dies of natural causes, no one can use it again. He also leaves the ring in the woods where no one will find it. It's kind of a rather complicated side plot the kind of matters because it explains a lot about Dumbledore (and we also learn a lot about Dumbledore's history in the 7th book), but otherwise doesn't turn out to be all that important, and since you're looking for the important details, I'll leave it at that.
The people who die in the book are: Fred Weasley, Remus Lupin, Nymphadora Tonks, Dobby the House Elf, Hedwig, and Mad-eye Moody (those are the main ones, anyway).