Which Harry Potter book did J.K. Rowling finish in a room at the Balmoral Hotel?

J.K. Rowling finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in a room at Edinburgh’s Balmoral Hotel.

The seventh and final Harry Potter novel was completed in 2007. Rowling wrote the closing scenes in Scotland while staying at the hotel, and the room later became associated with the end of the series.

Deathly Hallows was published in the United Kingdom and United States on 21 July 2007. It concludes Harry’s conflict with Voldemort and resolves the major narrative threads developed across the seven-book sequence.

The hotel detail is sometimes confused with where Rowling first conceived Harry Potter. She began developing the idea years earlier, during a train journey from Manchester to London in 1990. The Balmoral Hotel was associated with completing the final manuscript, not inventing the series.