Which Harry Potter book did J.K. Rowling finish writing on a hotel room’s marble bust?

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

Rowling wrote the final pages in January 2007 while staying at the hotel. A statement commemorating the occasion was later written on the back of a marble bust in the room. The statement records that she finished the book there on 11 January 2007, making the room a notable location in the history of the series.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was published on 21 July 2007. It is the seventh and final novel in the original Harry Potter sequence. The story resolves the conflict between Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort and concludes the central school-year narrative.

The event is sometimes misremembered as taking place in a café, because Rowling wrote parts of earlier books in cafés in Edinburgh. The hotel detail belongs specifically to the completion of the final novel, not the beginning of the series.