J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series

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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Is Dumbledore dead?

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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Although scholars have argued both sides of the question with Talmudic rigor, the overwhelming consensus is that he's down for the count. But the afterlife is a mysterious thing in Harry Potter, and Dumbledore may yet have a role to play.

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