Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows *Warning - Thread WILL Contain Spoilers*

[JeanAvril]

Am I the only one who thinks this book was about as bad as the new Versace ads? I mean, I liked it a lot, and it made me feel sympathy for Snape, but the epilogue just RUINED it! Harry and Ginny just didn't need to be together (a better match would be Harry and Luna). And how could they be so mean as to name that poor child Albus Severus. That just did it for me.

 

[Lacroix]

I think the epilogue shouldve been left out, my friend who doesnt even read the books thought (when I told her about it) that J.K shouldve just left it for the imagination and I so agree. It seemed rushed and too neatly pulled togeter I'd much rather wonder what Harry wouldve done with his life than have it there for me. I try and ignore it and pretend it ended at the Battle of Hogwarts

 

[Salacya]

^^Just try to forget that epilogue.
I love your avy Lacroix.

 

[JeanAvril]

I try and ignore it and pretend it ended at the Battle of Hogwarts

Me too...

 

[Lacroix]

^^Just try to forget that epilogue.
I love your avy Lacroix.

I will try and erase it from my memory, or just rip those few pages out

 

[zembla]

JK said on the Today Show that she still doesn't see Snape as a hero and he absolutely would not have helped Harry had he not loved his mother so much...

 

[JeanAvril]

I just realized how much I hate Ginny Weasley and Harry's dad. Ginny, because she had no substance. And Harry's dad, because he was an a$$hole to Snape.

 

[Lacroix]

^ Yeah...he was! I think I sort of started to dislike him (James) in the OOTP when Harry sees Snapes memories in the occulmency lessons. But, then again I know Harrys dad was an **** but Snape was into the whole Dark Arts thing and his supposed hate for Mudbloods (his true self was only sort of known to Lily) and Harrys dad was young, just messing about? But he was an idiot in general. I really have a soft spot for Snape now though.

 

[Lacroix]

JK said on the Today Show that she still doesn't see Snape as a hero and he absolutely would not have helped Harry had he not loved his mother so much...

J.K has started to annoy me I really think some things should be based on interpretations and I loathe her for doing that epilogue and taking so many thing away from the imagination

 

[KhaoticKharma]

Sunday night Dateline is doing a whole hour on the end of Harry Potter at 8 PM

I seriously almost cried when I heard that, seriously.

JKR discussed the careers she pictured for Harry, Ron, and Hermione in the Today show interview (they weren't included because they ddin't work as literature, even if they functioned). Harry and Ron have revolutionized aurors, and Hermione works at the ministry. Always the Potter characters enthusist, I had some futures of my own...

- Ginny is a full time mom and part time cashier at Flourish and Blotts

- Hermionie is the Head of the Department of Magical Enforcement a the Minsitry of Magic, which is under a pax magica thanks to the Minister of Magic, Kingsley Shacklebolt. She is the front running candidate for Minister of Magic after Shacklebolt retires years from now.

- Cho Chang is seeker for the Tutshill Tornados (and married to Roger Davies with a daughter); Angelina Johnson plays Chaser for Holyhead Harpies; Katie Bell is currently on the reserve team for Ballycastle Bats; Oliver Wood is now captain for Puddlemere United (and married to Alicia Spinnet); Marcus Flint is a player for the Montrose Magpies

- Lavender Brown married the lead singer of The Weird Sisters. She really just lives off his money and buys expensive things. They have two children, one of whom (a son) is in the same year as Albus Severus Potter and Rose Weasley.

- Lee Jordan is the top DJ in the wizarding world, with the #1 rated morning show

- Filch still works at Hogwarts

- Parvati Patel is the new Divination professor at Hogwarts. She still keeps in contact with Lavender.

- Goyle teaches Potions at Hogwarts

- Padma Patel is the new co-owner of Madame Malkin's with her husband, a Frenchman/former Beauxbatons boy she met at the Yule Ball

- Blaise Zabini married Pansy Parkinson, and they are haughty, obnoxious and very wealthy together

 

[Faith Akiyama]

why?

Luna's a little too oddball for Harry.

Oddball, perhaps, but still completely understanding in her own right. IMHO, after being misunderstood seven straight years by everyone, I thought that Harry would want to spend the rest of his life with someone who both complemented and empathized with him (Being a loner, in his own world, etc.). I just feel that Luna's characterization was the perfect description of what Harry, as a flawed hero, would find happiness with. Even at the end she was the one who truly knew what he really needed:


*(Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, US hardcover edition, pg. 745 -- after the final duel with Voldemort)

...After a while, exhausted and drained, Harry found himself sitting on a bench beside Luna.

"I'd want some peace and quiet, if it were me," she said.

"I'd love some," he replied.

"I'll distract them all," she said. "Use your Cloak."

"And before he could say a word she had cried, "Oooh, look, a Blibbering Humdinger!" and pointed out of the window. Everyone who heard looked around, and Harry slid the Cloak up over himself and got to his feet.

Ginny was a strong character before book 7 and quite worthy of Harry, but for me, things just did not develop enough for them to form a convincing enough relationship

But ultimately, it's not a romance book, so adventure/magical-wise DH was still quite fabulous (Minus the hurried demises of so many we loved)

- Blaise Zabini married Pansy Parkinson, and they are haughty, obnoxious and very wealthy together

I concur

 

[Lacroix]

I wish J.K hadn't done that, Ginnys career?? WTF? she was so stong-headed and independent this diminishes her character I think, why can't she leave things be and let the brain create the endings???

 

[TheGlassAngel]

Nono.

That was just Khaotic Kharma's predictions

 

[Lacroix]

^ Oh?

I saw the same predictions on another site?!

Sorry I thought I saw J.K and then I skipped down to Ginny, apologies

 

[eternitygoddess]

And Harry's dad, because he was an a$$hole to Snape.

It's not like Snape wasn't an @sshole either.

but James Potter matured and grew out of the bully-ing phase.

And he was never drawn to dark arts or the whole pure-blood system.

- Ginny is a full time mom and part time cashier at Flourish and Blotts
- Filch still works at Hogwarts

- Goyle teaches Potions at Hogwarts

OH NVM. Those are just predictions.

She makes Ginny sound so...unambitious. I wish ginny had a better job than a CASHIER.

Filch has got to be 200 something.

Goyle as Potions master? WHAT?!

Where's Percy and Draco and everyone else?

 

[Label Basher]

Those guesses are not JK's they are KhaoticKharma's.

I doubt very much that Ginny works at Flourish and Blotts.

 

[Annu]

^really?! I thought those are real because those are so.. but #300 are real information from JK right?

 

[Annu]

(http://www.usatoday.com/)

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swapContent('firstHeader','applyHeader');The interview takes place at the stately Bonham Hotel in this ancient city where Rowling lives. She pulls up in a silver minivan driven by her second husband, Neil Murray, 36, a general practitioner she married in 2001. She leans toward him, gives him a kiss and, looking very hip, steps out in a blue-and-black-striped tunic, fitted jeans and black high-heeled boots.
Rowling — who recalls sobbing as she finished writing the final Potter book — appears relaxed and happy after a 17-year stretch in which she produced the seven Potter books that became a lifeblood to booksellers and attracted millions of young fans.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2007-07-25-jk-rowling_N.htm

In the weeks leading up to Hallows' release, there was intense speculation about whether the teenage Harry would survive a final showdown of good vs. evil with his archnemesis, the Dark Lord, Voldemort.
In the book, Voldemort meets his end and Harry survives. Rowling says Harry's survival was not always guaranteed, however.

"In the early days, everything was up for grabs," she says. "But early on I knew I wanted Harry to believe he was walking toward his death, but would survive."
She is pleased fans worried about her hero's fate before Deathly Hallows was released.
"I was very proud that people thought Harry's death was a genuine possibility. I was very proud, because my story had to make the possibility of death real. I wanted the reader to feel that anyone might die, as in life."
There were deaths that were traumatic to write, she says.
"Fred (Weasley, brother of Harry's friend Ron), Lupin (a former teacher at Hogwarts, the school for wizards and witches that Harry attended) and Tonks (Lupin's wife) really caused me a lot of pain," Rowling says.
"Lupin and Tonks were two who were killed who I had intended to keep alive. … It's like an exchange of hostages, isn't it? And I kept Mr. Weasley (Ron's father) alive. He was slated to die in the very, very original draft of the story."
With the publication of Deathly Hallows, Rowling begins a new chapter in her writing life — a life, she says, that will not include filling in the 19-year gap between Harry's final battle with Voldemort and the epilogue, which revisits Harry and his friends Ron and Hermione as happy adults.
"I truly have no desire to do that," she says, "and I feel it would be an enormous anticlimax. After the arc of the Voldemort story, what could match up?"
That, she says, would require creating a new supervillain. And to revisit Harry's story would be "continuing it for the sake of continuing it. I don't feel that's (another battle of good vs. evil) what happened in Harry's life. I think Harry gained peace. He got what he always wanted, which was a happy family."

 

[farren fashion]

^^ i'm glad she didn't kill mr. weasley. that would've been horrible to the storyline. ron would be depressed. he'd probably push hermione away. they wouldn't end up together. i'm getting depressed just thinking about it.

 

[russh_kris_z]

LOL hmm ^^ I'm so sad about Dobby's death... well I hope to see Cho as a seeker or model