I really identify with comment 5. I think you've expressed exactly the way I feel about the movies versus the books, only I'd never put it into those words before. I had similar thoughts about the epilogue, also, and I think perhaps this is why the epilogue works: because it can show in a few seconds what the book takes several pages to set up and describe in excruciating detail. It just becomes this little moment between Harry and Albus and it being okay to be a Slytherin, and not, "Let me find an excuse to spell out the full name of everyone ever, also hi Lupin's kid-who-is-not-a-werewolf."
And I noticed the films seemed to be pushing Luna/Neville. Which I think I was okay with, as insular as that relationship would be.
Haha, and you've expressed my feelings about the epilogue a lot better than I did. It worked much better as imagery, as a very tangible new beginning, than it did as part of the story; it tied off storylines far too neatly in the book and yeah, look at all the terrible tribute names we gave our kids.
I noticed the Luna/Neville thing too, and was kind of intrigued. It was just awkward enough to be okay, though. Was that a thing in the book? I can't remember.
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And I noticed the films seemed to be pushing Luna/Neville. Which I think I was okay with, as insular as that relationship would be.
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I noticed the Luna/Neville thing too, and was kind of intrigued. It was just awkward enough to be okay, though. Was that a thing in the book? I can't remember.
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