Harry Potter

[plainjane]

yep, you're right... but Harry Potter isn't dead... 19 years later he's married to Ginny and has three little kids and leads and utterly mundane and boring life
if anything nearly as exciting as his fight against Voldy was to happen to him, it would have to be either in between the end of book 7 and those "19 years later" or after those 19 years.

Flashbacks are a possibility, or maybe like Bobby in Dallas, it was all a dream..... :roll:

[Walter]

yep, you're right... but Harry Potter isn't dead...

Yes, he isn't dead. All the easier for continuation. As if 'easy' were necessary for continuation anyway, which might be the point of the Holmes example.

[Hyacinth42]

Here is an article that says JKR will write another book, with backstory and epilogue:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19959323/

And here is her saying it again, along with what Harry, Hermione, and Ron are doing:
http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/n...-rowling_N.htm

[kratsayra]

I'm late to the party cause I've just finished the book last night.

I guess I'm just a sucker, but I really liked the epilogue. Even though it's just a story, happy endings of that sort are really reassuring with regards to my own life. So I just like to see them. I guess Harry and Ginny ending up together is a bit silly, but the characters that end up together throughout the books have never been a surprise really. And I'm not surprise that Rowling put it there, I was kinda expecting something like that . . . and of course Neville ends up as a Professor at Hogwarts.

There was a lot of humor with Ron and Hermione finally getting together. When Ron comes back you really think Hermione is going to kiss him, and then she starts punching him. And then when they finally kiss towards the end, Harry's like, "um, guys . . . now's not the best time" (yes, I know that's not a real quote)

I love the chapter when Harry learns all about Snape's life. It's just too fascinating.

And also when Harry asks Dumbledore if his conversation with him is real or in his head and Dumbledore says (and this is a quote): "Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?" That's probably my favorite line of the book, it really stuck out.

[Logos]

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[Whifflingpin]

Walter : "Can there be more Harry Potter? Of course! Arthur Conan Doyle tried to actually kill off Sherlock Holmes because he wanted to do other things in his life, but the fans demanded otherwise, so Sherlock Holmes came back with an ingenious explanation about how his presumed death had only been apparent. "

Sleepywitch: "yep, you're right... but Harry Potter isn't dead... 19 years later he's married to Ginny and has three little kids and leads and utterly mundane and boring life
if anything nearly as exciting as his fight against Voldy was to happen to him, it would have to be either in between the end of book 7 and those "19 years later" or after those 19 years."

If JKR is intending to stick with children's literature, and continue in the Harry Potter world, then I'd guess the main characters would be the next generation. Clearly Albus Severus is a character in his own right already, even with so short an introduction.

[kratsayra]

If JKR is intending to stick with children's literature, and continue in the Harry Potter world, then I'd guess the main characters would be the next generation. Clearly Albus Severus is a character in his own right already, even with so short an introduction.

You know what I just realized? Albus Severus' initials are ASP. Interesting, huh? Like a snake. I wonder if it's intentional. (unless Ginny and Harry do the hyphenated last name thing! haha)

[Annamariah]

I love the chapter when Harry learns all about Snape's life. It's just too fascinating.

Ever since the chapter "Snape's Worst Memory" in Order of the Phoenix I've liked Snape and I just COULDN'T believe he was a bad guy even when he killed Dumbledore in the end of the Half-Blood Prince. I just refused to believe he was really with Voldemort... I think the whole Snape loved Lily -thing explains that Snape's Worst Memory chapter pretty well.

You know, when I first read it, I was wondering why it was Snape's WORST memory. I mean, surely James and Sirius had been teasing him in many other occasions, too. After Deathly Hollows I realised it was his worst memory because that was when his friendship with Lily ended

[Derringer]

I was generally disappointed with the last book. I haven't liked Harry for a couple of books now - he's almost a mix between Pip from Great Expectations and Holden Caulfield from The Catcher in the Rye .

Generally I would revise all of the novels -- to much re-telling of events by the characters, overtly judgemental of the characters , a muddled philosophy -- Dumbledore is the greatest wizard and his big thing is a 'greater good' --yuck! Too simple!

I noticed the Nazi thing too, and I was looking for some bits and pieces of satire or analogy. Dumbledore's writing could be reminiscint of the Nazi's misuse of the ubermensch.

The exceptance of fate, sacrifice, an exclusive morality, live after death, family, and the soul tend to point towards something similar to Christianity (or possibly a similar religion). Although I guess all of those things tend to be excepted in pop culture anyways. I wouldn't call this book secular though.

[Aiculík]

I was a bit disappointed, too - there were several big mistakes that spoilt the fun for me, like... (spoilers! Don't read orange text if you haven't finished the book yet!)

(like Kreacher suddenly in Hogwarts, or the sword again in the Sorting hat, or disapparating underage students in Hog's Head...)

And I do hope that Rowling is very bad Seer and that Ron and Hermione won't name their children Hugo and Rose. I mean - Hugo? Oh come on. After six books full of strangest and funniest names, the poor boy is Hugo?

[Annamariah]

I was a bit disappointed, too - there were several big mistakes that spoilt the fun for me, like... (spoilers! Don't read orange text if you haven't finished the book yet!)

(like Kreacher suddenly in Hogwarts, or the sword again in the Sorting hat, or disapparating underage students in Hog's Head...)

Well, Kreacher had been in Hogwarts before because of Harry's order, so why couldn't he have gone there again? I guess that the sword coming from the sorting hat is some kind of old and mysterious Gryffindor-thing, I mean the sword really wasn't in the hat when Harry found it in the first place in the Chamber of Secrets, it just somehow appeared into it. And the underage students... maybe they used side-along apparition or floo-network? Well, I'm not sure, but those would be my guesses

[grace86]

****Spoilers******


I finished the book yesterday afternoon. Truthfully, I loved all of it. Save for the fact that I was really hoping Dumbledore's eyes were in the shard of glass. But I understood why he couldn't come back.

Well, when the underage wizards were disapperating, the ministry had kind of fallen. Scrimgeour was dead, and Voldemort couldn't control it...he was busy with a war...so considering the students might or might not know how to apparate, no one was going to tell them they broke the law.

I really didn't see the Lily/Snape thing coming, but I am so glad he was a good guy.

The epilogue I liked too, a little mushy and cliche to some, but it is a child's book. Kind of nice to know what happens to them all.

About killing off Lupin and Tonks, I'd rather it been them than Mr. Weasley, as Rowling said she was going to do. Sad for little Teddy, buy apparently he turned out okay. I thought Rowling was going to have Harry raise him or something.

Overall, I really really enjoyed the book. I am sad it is over, but I liked how it ended.

[malwethien]

I just finished it and I am deeply disappointed! I felt that JK rushed into a half-baked explanation of how to kill Voldemort without killing Harry because she ran out of ideas. She was unable to explain clearly about the the blood "connection" between Harry, Voldemort and Lily and the weird phenomenon of Harry and VOlemort's wand...The story was a nice, neat package until that point where it just fell apart. It kinda had the same feeling if the series ended by Harry waking up, finding out that he had dreamt the whole thing and he was still 11 years old sleeping in the cupboard under the stairs. JK took the easy way out. I also think the epilogue was so corny!! It would have been better if they told the readers what happened to the other characters...no just Harry and Ginny and Ron and Hermione who the readers knew for sure would have a happy ending....

I don't know...I just felt that the ending was forced...just so it will finally end. It could have been better....

and by the way...where did Neville get the Gryffindor sword? The last person to have had it was Griphook in Gingotts....so how did Neville end up with it in Hogwarts???

[androcles]

BIGAPE2992,
Why do you answer in such intemperate terms? eg "The question is beyond ignorance"... "Pathetic mind".
Child escapism? Patently so. J.K. Rowling is writing CHILDRENS books and fantasy is certainly a form of ESCAPISM.

[stephofthenight]

i have 2 questions on this book
1. how did the sword of griffindor get back in hogwarts after the goblin ran off with it in the bank...
2. how did draco have anything to do with the elder wand
?