Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

TIME book critic Lev Grossman grabs an early copy of Deathly Hallows and finds it a sad but satisfying wrap-up to J.K. Rowling's seven-novel epic

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Potter is printed, somewhere. The record-breaking first run of 12 million dwarfs the number for the first novel: initially a mere 50,000 made it to stores.

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