The last of the Harry Potter series. I bought this as part of the wave of Harry Potter craze going on with the release of this final book. I''d just been to the fifth movie, I''d jumped on the train on the Monday after the book was released and it was like walking into a Harry Potter reading room. I realised soon that I must have missed a book (book six obviously) as some of the characters were dead and I was thoroughly confused - nonetheless I had been caught up in the whirlwind and it doe stand on it''s own as a great read striking similarities to Narnia chronicles where Aslan goes to sacrifice himself for everyone else. The ending is a bit trite, but probably necessary. I can''t wait for my nephew to be older so he can read these books too.