[News] Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows [spoilers abound]

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Originally Posted by Crash Landon

BAD: The epilogue. Call me a completionist, but I'm interested in the fates of more than just the central three or four characters. There were enough classmates and supporters who played pivotal roles that it would've been worth noting how they managed to get on. I cannot be the only person with a curiosity as to what eventually becomes of Luna Lovegood or Ernie Macmillan.

Ditto that. Rowling should have made one more chapter before jumping ahead 19 years later. Like tell us the aftermath of the battle, the suvivors, casulties, the grief people felt from the death of loved ones...

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God I wanted to know how George is gonna cope without his twin, they were practically two halves of a person sometimes... Losing Fred must be like losing part of himself...

I also wanna know what happens to Luna too, along with alot of students, teachers, friends and families etc.

Also wanna know what happens with Draco.

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The epilogue seemed to imply that he and Harry aren't gonna kill each other, yet at the same time I wanna know if they had a talk and decided to calla truce, or animosity still exist between them but decided to just distant themselves from each other. Some closure between their rivarly was needed, since aside from Snape, its was an important character relationship for Harry in the antagonistic side. Jumping ahead 19 years later only tells me abit of the story.

Also does Harry go back to finish his last year at Hogwarts? Does he become and Auror or something else? I want answers more than "He marries Ginny and has kids." cliche. These type of "having kids" ending drive me nuts, since its overused and doesn't tell much about the characters we actually give a damn about. I didn't really give two shits about their kids at all, a couple of pages can't tell me enough about them to make me care. I wanna know what happens to the set of characters we know deeply. The naming of them was also blah and cliche, with the only redeeming factor is

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that Harry named one of his sons after Snape in his middle name, and we find out he felt respect for him when he learned the truth, and honoured his memory despite the past animosity between them.

Then again, Snape was always awesome. God I can't wait to see Alan Rickman potraying Snape again now that the cat's out of the bag, he probably has more liberty to reveal abit more about Snape in the movies now.

So yeah, good book, but terrible epilogue.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

That they become caring people/parents that have moved on to odinary peaceful lives?

We already know they're kind and caring, and you don't need the cliche kids aspect to say that they moved on to the peaceful lives stuff. There are plenty of other scenarios they could have used to tell us this info, yet she chose to use a cliche one where the kids dominated the scene and dialouge, and barely find out what happens to the entire cast of characters. This is the last time I can see my fav characters again, and instead the last few pages are bombarded with drivels from these kids I don't give a shit about?

What did they end up with career wise? Where are they all living? Other than having kids and sending them to Hogwarts, what else is new? The epilogue didn't really tell us anything new cept they had kids, and

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Harry has grown to respect Snape, and he and Draco had some sort of truce. That is it. Oh and Neville becomes a professor, good for him.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Hachifusa

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What the hell was that dying thing at King's Cross, while Harry was speaking with Dumbledore? That thing bothered me, and other than Dumbledore telling Harry to 'leave it', they never explain what it is... do they?

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Voldemort's soul in Harry.

Wonder when will Rowling start answering fan questions again on her site, I'm pretty sure there's alot we all wanna ask.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Well at least she told us in one way or another... She should put these on her site as well though...

Thanks for the link!

I was speaking idiomatically.

Her responses to all that she was shooting for “nebulous,” something “poetic.” She wanted the readers to feel as if they were looking at Platform 9¾ through the mist, unable to make out exactly who was there and who was not.

As from the link Stop Sign posted above.

Still, I say "meh" to that.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

On one hand, I like knowing more facts about our characters in the series. I just hope kids won't listen to their Homophobic parents....

But on the other hand, anyone bummed out that Rowling needs to do press conferences to shed more light into the characters? I still feel that book 7 would have been alot better if we also saw what was going on with the other characters, like maybe set in Neveille's point of view or something.

I feel that a good writer should be able to put more information and development into their final book, I'm sure fans won't care if its a little thicker if it means a better closure. I mean god, you don't find out crucial information like THIS big piece of news from DVD commentaries, do you? Some subtle language from let say, Dumbledore telling Harry why he and Grim had falling out would have hinted as to what his feelings were, instead we have to hear it through a news website.

And if you're going to go for vague epilouge, why destroy the fan's imaginations of what happened to their fav characters (fanfic though they may be) with more press conferences telling us what happended? You can't have it both ways. You either make it ambigous so we can imagine what happened to everyone, or you give us more details IN THE BOOK, not some after release commentary.

Anyone share similar feelings on this?

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