History YMMV / HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows

** Averted in that they missed alot of truly memorable scenes, or moved them off-screen. Note Fred's death, Kreacher arriving with the house elves, cutting Grawp and only giving Teddy Lupin a very minor handwave that he had even been born and not mentioning Harry being the godfather, even though it's a right of passage scene and greatly defined how Harry had grown into a man.

* AndTheFandomRejoiced: The fact that the movies would be split thusly; Part 1: The Great Horcrux Search and Part 2: The Battle of Hogwarts. Considering all the [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome amazing moments]] that happen during the Battle, it was only natural.

* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler:Snape's death. Nagini coming out of Bathilda Bagshot's neck. Harry even decided to spare Hermione the details of Nagini's arrival]].
** The guardian spell of the [[spoiler:Slytherin locket.]] (Sickeningly interwoven with FetishFuel. Burn you, fanfreakers!)
** What Ron sees when he [[spoiler:destroys the locket.]] Made even worse when you realize that the locket was probably telling him those exact same things, over and over, in the time before he ran away.

* ShipSinking: [[JKRowling J.K. Rowling]] had to sink the [[spoiler:Harry/Hermione ship]] ''thrice'', the third time of which was in this book. First, in an interview about the possible pairing, Rowling said she didn't think they were suited for each other. Secondly in ''HalfBloodPrince'', and then the internet exploded, with [[spoiler:Harry/Hermione shippers]] [[DieForOurShip sending out death threats, burning books]], and [[FanDumb swearing to abandon the series if she didn't change it]]. To drive the nail in the coffin, this book has Harry giving the "LikeBrotherAndSister" speech to Ron and Hermione, right after a scene in which Harry/Hermione appears as an evil illusion [[spoiler:made by the locket-Horcrux]] that seems vaguely perverse and is intended entirely to enrage Ron into attacking Harry by using frequent Harmonian arguments, at that.

** The entire Horcrux quest. Not only do they never leave Britannia and spend 90% of the quest in a tent, snapping at each other because of a Horcrux ([[SarcasmMode very intelligent J.K.R.]]), but the gorram Horcruxes are ''barely'' protected, at least compared to the first two (Gringotts silliness apart). What, Voldemort found himself out of budget for the last pieces of his soul? It was too much trouble to put at least some defense in them? What should have come as an Indiana Jones/Conan the Barbarian-style quest of epic proportion instead came as a weekend with bernie with wands.

* WhatAnIdiot: Yes, to safeguard the Horcrux, let's wear it at all times. It's not like we had proof that said Horcruxes can posses or damage the bearer or had a handy bag to put it in. And the feelings of paranoia and anger, plus the deterioration of friendship... totally normal.

* AbandonShipping: Too many to mention but any couple that wasn't [[spoiler: Harry/Ginny]], [[spoiler: Ron/Hermione]], or [[spoiler:Remus/Tonks and Bill/Fleur]] was officially torpedoed.
* AssPull: the revelation that [[spoiler: the reason Harry's InvisibilityCloak never tears or falls into disarray because it is one of the eponymous Deathly Hallows is a clever inversion of this, much like the rest of ChekhovsArmory in the books. Harry takes the power of his Cloak for granted, simply assuming that all Invisibility Cloaks are just that awesome, but attentive readers will notice Mad Eye Moody talking about having to borrow a fellow Order member's Invisibility Cloak because his was starting to wear off. The average reader would wave it off as a [[PlotHole continuity error]], but it [[TheyPlottedAPerfectlyGoodWaste it becomes an important plot device in the final book]].]]
** On the other hand, Dumbledore's claim that [[spoiler: the Cloak's true magic is that it can hide multiple people]] is a more traditional AssPull. So if anyone ever manufactures [[spoiler: an oversize Invisibility Cloak, does it automatically get promoted to Hallowdom?)]]
*** Not its true magic, but it's true ''worth'' as a [[spoiler:Hallow. The Wand and the Stone were for more selfish uses in comparison.]]

** Although it serves to illustrate what is never explicitly stated in the film: that Harry and Hermione are like siblings and will never be a romantic couple. The dancing scene looks like a make-out scene at first, but it soon becomes apparent Harry is only trying to cheer Hermione up. He fails.

** Probably the greatest of all of them being when Neville, the series' perpetual ButtMonkey [[spoiler: pulls Gryffindor's sword from the Sorting Hat and slices off Nagini's head. Even more awesome because this is what makes Harry's final victory over Voldemort possible, by eliminating the last Horcrux and making him mortal again.]]

* CompleteMonster: If there was any doubt that [[TyrantTakesTheHelm Dolores Umbridge]] did not fit this trope to a T and that she was JustFollowingOrders, her actions in this book completely destroy that argument. She's more than happy to stay on in the Ministry after Voldemort takes over and [[StepfordSmiler cheerfully presides over the]] [[ThePurge show trials of Muggle-borns]].

* DieForOurShip: After announcing that [[spoiler: Harry and Hermione would not become a couple]] JK Rowling was actually getting threats of boycotts as well as ''death threats'' from [[spoiler: rabid Harry/Hermione shippers]]. She apparently brushed them off with this book as a big TakeThat.
* FanonDiscontinuity: Some [[spoiler: Harry/Hermione]] shippers think that JKR wrote the "nineteen years later" epilogue primarily or solely to spite them by making [[spoiler: "Harry and Hermione get together after Hogwarts"]] stories uncanonical. A number of fans reject the canonicity of the epilogue to get around this, leading to the phrase "Epilogue? What Epilogue?"
** Dumbledore gayness. Or at least the relationship with Grindelwald. Not only it came as a lame WordOfGod (and kinda offensive), but it robed all moral ambiguity and deep of Dumbledore mistake. Instead of the foolishness of ego and age, resentment, despair of the conceited, the darker side of the Light, the fall from grace and the quest of Power (and what does with power should do with it) it transform the entire thing in a cheap soap opera barely worth of a Slash Fic. Better leave the book message: PoisonousFriend, the corruptness of power and the foolishness that even those wise and powerful can fall.

* GeniusBonus: Probably unintentional, but the conflict in Shakespeare's ''TheWintersTale'' begins with a man who believes that his wife (named Hermione) is cheating on him with his best friend.
* HarsherInHindsight: Remember Molly's boggart from ''OrderOfThePhoenix''? [[spoiler: It comes true with Fred's death at the end of the book.]]

* LoveItOrHateIt: The most divisive book in the series along with ''Half Blood Prince''.
* MemeticBadass: Neville Longbottom will reject your bribes and kill your pet. Neville Longbottom uses Basilisk venom as soy sauce. Neville Longbottom would have done it in four books. Nevile...you get the idea.

* MissedMomentOfAwesome: Ron and Hermione [[spoiler: recovering the basilisk fangs from the ChamberOfSecrets. This could have been used to show another spiritual illusion to try and stop them, like with the locket.]] but was left out due to the book's CosmicDeadline (see above).
** In the book, [[spoiler: before the Dursleys leave Privet Drive, Dudley shows concern about Harry’s safety, tells Harry that he doesn’t consider him to be "a waste of space," is thankful to him for saving his life, and even shakes his hand]]. For [[spoiler: Dudley]], this is positive CharacterDevelopment and a CrowningMomentOfAwesome rolled into one, [[spoiler: because it presents Dudley as finally accepting and appreciating Harry]]. Disappointingly, this is left out in the film.

** The entire Horcrux quest. Not only they never leave Britannia and spend 90% of the quest in a tent, snapping at each other because an Horcrux ([[SarcasmMode very intelligent J.K.R.]]) but the gorram Horcruxes are ''barely'' protected, at least compared to the first two (gringots silliness apart). What, Voldemort found himself out of budget for the last pieces of his soul? It was too much trouble to put at least some defense in them? What should have come as an Indiana Jones/Conan the Barbarian quest of epic proportion; it came as a weekend with bernie with wands.
* MoralEventHorizon: Throughout the books, Malfoy's sidekicks Goyle and Crabbe were mostly ineffectual rivals to our trio, but towards the end [[spoiler: Crabbe actually goes CompleteMonster and almost kills the three]], even when Draco is dead set against it.

* RuinedFOREVER: Harry got together with [[spoiler: Ginny instead of [[VictoriousChildhoodFriend Hermione]]]]? Instead of [[ManicPixieDreamGirl Luna]]? Instead of [[FoeYay Draco]]? Instead of [[PerverseSexualLust me]]? Ruined FOREVER!

* ShipSinking: [[JKRowling J.K. Rowling]] had to sink the [[spoiler: Harry/Hermione ship]] ''thrice'', the third time of which was in this book. First, in an interview about the possible pairing, Rowling said she didn't think they were suited for each other. Secondly in ''HalfBloodPrince'', and then the internet exploded, with [[spoiler: Harry/Hermione shippers]] [[DieForOurShip sending out death threats, burning books]], and [[FanDumb swearing to abandon the series if she didn't change it]]. To drive the nail in the coffin, this book has Harry giving the "LikeBrotherAndSister" speech to Ron and Hermione, right after a scene in which Harry/Hermione appears as an evil illusion [[spoiler: made by the locket-Horcrux]] that seems vaguely perverse and is intended entirely to enrage Ron into attacking Harry by using frequent Harmonian arguments, at that.

* TearJerker: In the film we see Hermione Obliviating her parents' memories of her.
* TrappedByMountainLions The main storyline falls victim to this, which is the only point of view given after the first chapter. Obviously Harry, Ron and Hermione hunting down the [[SoulJar Horcruxes]] is a big deal, but with its difficult pacing and long stretches of [[TheDumbledore Dumbledore]] back story only tangentially necessary to the plot, it sort of falls short compared to Voldemort having taken over the Ministry of Magic and [[TheUnChosenOne Neville]] [[TookALevelInBadass running]] LaResistance [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome inside the school]], which [[FanNickname the Golden Trio]] (and thus the readers) only hear about secondhand.
* WhatanIdiot: Yes, to safeguard the horcrux let wear it at all times. Is not like we had proof that said horcruxes can posses or damage the bearer or had a handy bag to put it in. And the feeling of paranoia, anger and the deteroration of friendship... totally normal.

*** How often does one get DeathOfTheAuthor literally as well as figuratively, let alone simultaneously?
** While less severe than the above, the two thirds of the book Ruined Forever (or broke the set) the Magical Adventure. Is the last installment of a septology, an epic crossing to find the Horcruxes and finally defeat the BigBad and... they pass the time moaning, camping, discussing news and ''breaking relationships''. You don't get more '''BORING''' than putting over 400 pages of camping trip in a MAGICAL QUEST.

* HarsherInHindsight: Remember Molly's boggart from ''OrderOfThePhoenix''? [[spoiler: It comes true with Fred's death at the end of the book.

* FanonDiscontinuity: Some [[spoiler: Harry/Hermione shippers]] think that JKR wrote the "nineteen years later" epilogue primarily or solely to spite them by making [[spoiler: "Harry and Hermione get together after Hogwarts"]] stories uncanonical. A number of fans reject the canonicity of the epilogue to get around this, leading to the phrase "Epilogue? What Epilogue?"

* AbandonShipping / ShipSinking: Too many to mention but any couple that wasn't [[spoiler: Harry/Ginny]], [[spoiler: Ron/Hermione]], or [[spoiler:Remus/Tonks and Bill/Fleur]] was officially torpedoed.

* FanonDiscontinuity: Some Harry/Hermione shippers think that JKR wrote the "nineteen years later" epilogue primarily or solely to spite them by making "Harry and Hermione get together after Hogwarts" stories uncanonical. A number of fans reject the canonicity of the epilogue to get around this, leading to the phrase "Epilogue? What Epilogue?"

* MemeticMutation: [[spoiler:"NOT MY DAUGHTER, YOU BITCH!!!!"]], which made Molly Weasley ascend to {{Badass}} status.
* MemeticBadass: Neville Longbottom will reject your bribes and kill your pet. Neville Longbottom uses Basilisk venom as soy sauce. Neville Longbottom would have done it in four books. Nevile...you get the idea.

* ShipSinking: [[JKRowling J.K. Rowling]] had to sink the Harry/Hermione ship ''thrice'', the third time of which was in this book. First, in an interview about the possible pairing, Rowling said she didn't think they were suited for each other. Secondly in ''HalfBloodPrince'', and then the internet exploded, with Harry/Hermione shippers [[DieForOurShip sending out death threats, burning books]], and [[FanDumb swearing to abandon the series if she didn't change it]]. To drive the nail in the coffin, this book has Harry giving the "LikeBrotherAndSister" speech to Ron and Hermione, right after a scene in which Harry/Hermione appears as an evil illusion [[spoiler: made by the locket-Horcrux]] that seems vaguely perverse and is intended entirely to enrage Ron into attacking Harry by using frequent Harmonian arguments, at that.

* TrappedByMountainLions ''HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'' The main storyline falls victim to this, which is the only point of view given after the first chapter. Obviously Harry, Ron and Hermione hunting down the [[SoulJar Horcruxes]] is a big deal, but with its difficult pacing and long stretches of [[TheDumbledore Dumbledore]] back story only tangentially necessary to the plot, it sort of falls short compared to Voldemort having taken over the Ministry of Magic and [[TheUnChosenOne Neville]] [[TookALevelInBadass running]] LaResistance [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome inside the school]], which [[FanNickname the Golden Trio]] (and thus the readers) only hear about secondhand.

** Some Harry/Hermione shippers think that JKR wrote the "nineteen years later" epilogue primarily or solely to spite them by making "Harry and Hermione get together after Hogwarts" stories uncanonical. A number of fans [[DisContinuity reject the canonicity of the epilogue]] to get around this, leading to the phrase "Epilogue? What Epilogue?"

* ShipToShipCombat: Or rather Ship To Ship last stands, as this book effectively crushed the hopes of numerous shippers, but especially [[spoiler: Harry/Hermione]] shippers. However, true to the nature of shipping, many [[DieForOurShip still remain in denial.]]

* AssPull: the revelation that [[spoiler: the reason Harry's InvisibilityCloak never tears or falls into disarray because it is one of the eponymous Deathly Hallows is a clever inversion of this, much like the rest of ChekhovsArmory in the books. Harry takes the power of his Cloak for granted, simply assuming that all Invisibility Cloaks are just that awesome, but attentive readers will notice Mad Eye Moody talking about having to borrow a fellow Order member's Invisibility Cloak because his was starting to wear off. The average reader would wave it off as a [[PlotHole continuity error]], but it [[TheyPlottedAPerfectlyGoodWaste it becomes an important plot device in the final book]].

* AssPull: the revelation that [[spoiler:the reason Harry's InvisibilityCloak never tears or falls into disarray because it is one of the eponymous Deathly Hallows is a clever inversion of this, much like the rest of ChekhovsArmory in the books. Harry takes the power of his Cloak for granted, simply assuming that all Invisibility Cloaks are just that awesome, but attentive readers will notice Mad Eye Moody talking about having to borrow a fellow Order member's Invisibility Cloak because his was starting to wear off. The average reader would wave it off as a [[PlotHole continuity error]], but it [[TheyPlottedAPerfectlyGoodWaste it becomes an important plot device in the final book]].

* AssPull: the revelation that [[spoiler:Harry's InvisibilityCloak is one of the eponymous Deathly Hallows, especially when the characters start discussing how, oh yeah, Harry's cloak ''does'' have unique powers [[RetCon that we've never mentioned before]]! In Rowling's defense, she was never specific about the Invisibility Cloaks owned by other characters (Harry's is the only one that ever appears "in person"), but the ChekhovsGun is not that Harry ''has'' a Cloak but that his is special, and we've never seen any evidence about that one way or another. (Even worse, Dumbledore claims the Cloak's true magic is that it can hide multiple people. So if anyone ever manufactures an oversize Invisibility Cloak, does it automatically get promoted to Hallowdom?)]]

* AssPull: The whole concept of being able to make a word "Taboo". Aside from not even being vaguely hinted to be possible in the previous six books, it also results in a BrokenAesop.
** Also, the idea that Harry's invisibility cloak is [[spoiler:one of the uber-powerful Deathly Hallows]] rather than just an ordinary invisibility cloak. Given that previous books show it to be useless for hiding him from Dementors, Mad-Eye Moody's magic eye, etc., the notion that [[spoiler:it can hide its wearer from {{Death}} itself]] seems rather dubious.