I do think it's a bit odd that his own children don't know why Harry's famous. I don't think it's inaccurate to think he could carry on with a normal life (and we do know that he's pretty high up in the Auror office), but how could his kids not know? That'll certainly be something to talk about when Albus comes home for the holidays.
I can't believe we've reached the epilogue! I haven't always posted, but I've lurked and I though we'd be here forever and ever.
Love the epilogue. Would have liked one or two aftermath type chapters, but maybe that's because I'd happily read about every one of those 19 years we didn't see before the epilogue lol
Thanks everyone for making this place so magical. This past year was amazing.
I saw the movie tonight and it was beautiful, epic, heartbreaking and wonderful all at once. I hope you all love it, too.
My thoughts on the epilogue:
I love the epilogue. I know it gets a lot of shit, but I do not think it is deserved at all.
Harry finally has the family he always wanted, the normalcy he craved, the stability and simplicity of leading a normal life. JKR said it best in her interview post-Deathly Hallows:
In many ways it would have been a neater ending to kill him. For sure, I knew that all along; felt that the books' overriding message was that love is the most powerful force in this world. My model with Harry really was war veterans, who have seen horrors and are asked to go home and rebuild, and go back to their ordinary life and care for a family, be a father - particularly be a father - [it is] a difficult job, in troubled times. I felt it would be a betrayal of his character if I did anything other than show him doing that.
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Beautiful post. The JKR quote you mention is why I could never cut the epilogue out of my book. But I wish that all you've written here came through in the epilogue without the explanations. I do love Harry's moment with Albus Severus, and I like the message that comes through from that. But initially it was like a note of discord for me. It really did read like bad fanfic and that list of children's names...
But again, I love this post. I kind of want to print it out and tape it to the end of the book with the epilogue. I love WHY it's there and what JKR's intentions were in including it.
The issue isn't that Harry doesn't deserve this stuff, it's that by jumping ahead to this dreamy, fanfictiony universe 19 years later Rowling hasn't earned any of it.
I didn't need this to know that Harry would turn out all right; the books made that clear-the character she spent seven books creating did. That she included it anyway is either not trusting her writing or her readers nearly enough, and it just felt unnecessary-at best-as a result
I was underwhelmed by the epilogue on my very first read, but now I love it. Harry gets to have the happy family he's always wanted, in addition to officially becoming part of the Weasley clan. Yeah, it's a bit fluffy, but I happen to like fluff
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In a lot of ways I think the epilogue was a subtle reprimand for a lot of the creepier fanfics out their. Creepier being Hermione/Death Eater, Malfoy, Snape etc.
JKR said earlier she didn't understand why people liked Snape or Malfoy because they were terrible people and I think this was just to end all of that.
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that means Sirius was receding
DUN DUN DUNNNNN
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Love the epilogue. Would have liked one or two aftermath type chapters, but maybe that's because I'd happily read about every one of those 19 years we didn't see before the epilogue lol
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I saw the movie tonight and it was beautiful, epic, heartbreaking and wonderful all at once. I hope you all love it, too.
My thoughts on the epilogue:
I love the epilogue. I know it gets a lot of shit, but I do not think it is deserved at all.
Harry finally has the family he always wanted, the normalcy he craved, the stability and simplicity of leading a normal life. JKR said it best in her interview post-Deathly Hallows:
In many ways it would have been a neater ending to kill him. For sure, I knew that all along; felt that the books' overriding message was that love is the most powerful force in this world. My model with Harry really was war veterans, who have seen horrors and are asked to go home and rebuild, and go back to their ordinary life and care for a family, be a father - particularly be a father - [it is] a difficult job, in troubled times. I felt it would be a betrayal of his character if I did anything other than show him doing that. ( ... )
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But again, I love this post. I kind of want to print it out and tape it to the end of the book with the epilogue. I love WHY it's there and what JKR's intentions were in including it.
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I didn't need this to know that Harry would turn out all right; the books made that clear-the character she spent seven books creating did. That she included it anyway is either not trusting her writing or her readers nearly enough, and it just felt unnecessary-at best-as a result
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In a lot of ways I think the epilogue was a subtle reprimand for a lot of the creepier fanfics out their. Creepier being Hermione/Death Eater, Malfoy, Snape etc.
JKR said earlier she didn't understand why people liked Snape or Malfoy because they were terrible people and I think this was just to end all of that.
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