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The excruciating wait is over and the final installment of Harry Potter is out. To save you the trouble of standing in line a the bookstore, fighting off rabid fans, fending off your brother/sister/wife/roommate who wants to read it first, and in general reading the whole thing, BasKya brings you the most interesting parts o the book:

#6. Harry, Ron and Hermione are being chased by death eaters and are in danger of being captured. They use the polyjuice potion to convert into Lara Dutta, Mallika Sherawat and Rakhi Sawant and do an item number until the death eaters leave.

#5.Voldemort shoots an Avada kedavra curse at Harry. Hagrid sees it flying towards Harry and takes a diving leap towards it. It hits Hagrid in the chest. He slowly breathes his last in a sobbing Harry’s arms (”Please take care of Fang and Grawp for me, and Buckbeak and … “). In the meantime Voldemort hangs around in the background waiting for this scene to get over before resuming the fight.

#4.Draco Malfoy shows photoshopped photos of Harry kissing Hermione to Ginny and Ron. Both go into a jealous rage and become death eaters. They help Malfoy capture Harry and Hermione. I can’t reveal the rest since that would be a major spoiler.

#3.Ron is supposed to meet Hermione at Hogsmeade village for a date, but forgets about it. Hermione, alone at Hogsmeade, is surrounded by death eaters. She flies away on her trusty broom, with the death eaters in pursuit. Her broom breaks, she is captured and taken to Voldemort’s hideout

#2.Voldemort kidnaps Ginny, and holds a ceremony to get married to Ginny. Fortunately, Harry arrives on the scene just before Voldemort can say, “I do”.

And the number 1 most interesting plot point in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

#1.In the last sequence, Harry has destroyed all the horcruxes, and has disarmed Voldemort. He is just getting ready to hit Voldemort with the Avada kedavra curse when Rufus Scrimgeour arrives on the scene and insists that due process of the Ministry of Magic laws should be followed. Reluctantly, Harry hands Voldemort over to the dementors and hugs Ginny. Title song starts in the background.

Update: In the comments below, Mosilager gives us the most important plot point: Nagini goes to Voldemort and says, “main tumhaare bachche ki maan banne vaali hoon.” Voldy kicks Nagini and throws her out. She joins Harry and gang to bring down Voldy’s empire (although dying in the process because unwed mothers are not fashionable in 80s hindi movies).

Interesting links for your browsing pleasure:

• Certified Grief Counsellor available for parents and children to deal with feelings of loss after reading about the death of character(s) in the book.
• Some guy photographed each page of the book and uploaded the whole set to the internet
• There is a global network of Harry Potter inspired rock bands by kids.
• Not only are people predicting what will happen in book 7; they have also published books about their predictions; and this guy has analyzed the books of predictions and given a nice chart. Compared to these guys, what have you done for your favorite book?
• I got the idea of writing this post after reading this delightfully rambling review of HP#5 the movie.
• A great Harry Potter spoilers comic strip (doesn’t contain actual spoilers)
• Final Harry Potter Book Blasted for Containing Spoilers. In The Onion, America’s Finest News Source. And one of the inspirations for BasKya. “The least [Rowling] could have done was put a spoiler alert or something on the front cover.”
• Mosilager wonders what would have happened if Harry Potter were written by some other famous authors