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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 is a 2010 fantasy film directed by David Yates from a screenplay by Steve Kloves. The film follows Harry as he has been asked by Albus Dumbledore to find and destroy Lord Voldemort's secret to immortality – the Horcruxes.

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In 1997, Severus Snape meets with Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters at Malfoy Manor, reporting that the Order of the Phoenix will move Harry Potter, no longer under his mother's protective spell, to a safe location. Voldemort and the Death Eaters travel to Surrey to apprehend Harry, killing Hedwig and Mad-Eye Moody in the process. Harry escapes to the home of his friend, Ron Weasley, where they and Hermione Granger are visited by the new Minister for Magic Rufus Scrimgeour. He leaves them all a bequest from Albus Dumbledore: Ron a Deluminator, Hermione a copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, and Harry the Golden Snitch he caught in his first Quidditch match. Dumbledore also bequeathed the Sword of Gryffindor to Harry, but it has gone missing.
During the wedding of Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour, the guests are informed that the Ministry has fallen and Scrimgeour is dead. When they are attacked by Death Eaters, Harry, Ron, and Hermione escape to Number 12, Grimmauld Place, where Ron works out that Sirius Black's brother, Regulus, stole Salazar Slytherin's locket from Voldemort. Learning that thief Mundungus Fletcher later sold it to Dolores Umbridge, the three infiltrate the Ministry and recover the locket. Discovered by Death Eaters, Hermione hastily disapparates them to a forest, where they start their journey to discover and destroy all of Voldemort's Horcruxes, beginning with the locket.
After failing to destroy the locket, Hermione deduces that Gryffindor's sword can destroy Horcruxes because it is impregnated with basilisk venom. Ron, affected by the dark locket, is frustrated with their slow progress and becomes irrationally jealous of Harry and Hermione, leaving them after arguing angrily with Harry. Harry and Hermione search for the sword in Godric's Hollow, where Hermione notices a strange symbol in the graveyard that matches one on the cover of Beedle the Bard and one worn by Luna Lovegood's father, Xenophilius. Elderly historian Bathilda Bagshot leads the two to her cottage, where they find a photo of the young man Harry saw in a vision stealing a wand from wandmaker Gregorovitch, before Bagshot morphs into Voldemort's snake Nagini and attacks Harry. Hermione disapparates them to safety, but breaks Harry's wand doing so.
The two arrive in the Forest of Dean, where Hermione identifies the man in the photo as dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald, and Harry follows a doe patronus to the frozen pond where Gryffindor's sword lies on the bottom. After Harry dives in, the locket begins strangling him, but he is rescued by Ron, who also retrieves the sword. Ron then destroys the locket and the next day he explains the Deluminator led him to their location. The three visit Xenophilius and learn that the symbol represents the Deathly Hallows. As told in Beedle the Bard, three brothers once each received a prize for evading Death: the Resurrection Stone, the Cloak of Invisibility, and the Elder Wand, the most powerful wand known. Possessing all three makes one the Master of Death. Xenophilius then secretly summons the Death Eaters, wanting to exchange Harry for Luna, who is being held at Malfoy Manor.
The three are captured by Snatchers and brought to Malfoy Manor, where Harry sees a vision of an elderly Grindelwald telling Voldemort that the Elder Wand is buried with Dumbledore. Bellatrix Lestrange sees a Snatcher with Gryffindor's sword that she believed was in her Gringotts vault. Harry and Ron are locked into the cellar with Luna, Ollivander, and Griphook, while Bellatrix tortures Hermione. Harry sees a man resembling Dumbledore in a mirror shard and begs for help, which summons Dobby to the cellar; they retrieve Hermione and their captured wands from Draco Malfoy, but as they all disapparate Bellatrix fatally wounds Dobby, who dies as they arrive at Bill and Fleur's seaside cottage, an Order safe house. Meanwhile, Voldemort retrieves the Elder Wand from Dumbledore's tomb.
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