Life After Hogwarts

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JKR states that she will not continue Harry & Co.'s adventures past 
Hogwarts. 

Now, I've been thinking about this a lot lately, and am beginning to 
realize that it might be hard to say goodbye to characters we will no 
doubt by then have grown to consider part of our lives (for those who 
don't already! 8~) )

I'm wondering if anyone else thinks it might be possible that we 
could see a continuation of the series; if not by some chance that 
JKR should change her mind, but possibly by ::gasp:: *a different 
author*??

This thought process begins because my hubby is one of the biggest 
Star Wars freaks around and he has a collection of books written by a 
few other people, that continue the saga past Episode VI. Some of 
them even deal with things that happened before, as long as they 
didn't have to do with the goings on in Episodes I-III. 
[Star Wars fans: please forgive my complete lack of knowledge on this 
as I prefer to give my hubby lots of room to do his various hobbies 
and try not to get too involved...you just sometimes can't help it! 
I'm sure there are a few people on this list who know more about this 
than I. I apologize for my ignorance.]

What I'm wondering is if we might see the same thing come from this 
series, should she really not continue "life after Hogwarts." I don't 
believe I'm alone in thinking I'd like to see what happens after 
Hogwarts--should Harry survive it, that is! ;~)  

Has this been discussed before? What is your opinion, lovely listers? 
Would you read it? I'm pretty sure I would! 

And on the same note:

The Star Wars novels had basically the same few writers; but I don't 
know if the authors are fanfic writers (who got published) or 
professional or both or what. If JKR decides to end the series, would 
she allow someone else(s) to continue? And if so, would it be people 
she or her publisher "hand picked," since these works would be 
published? Or possibly they would have people submit their own works 
and pick a few that she/they thought might continue with the same 
integrity (which could also be established contractually, I would 
think). 

[I'm assuming that if this (Life After Hogwarts) were to happen, the 
books would have the same integrity, and the characters would not 
change drastically (in the sense of how they were conceived, yet 
maintaining the fact that they evolve as people/characters tend to do 
over time).]  

I realize Potterverse was created by JKR as her own world and there 
may be a chance she would never let that happen.....but we're not 
finished with the series yet and who knows what might evolve between 
now and then? 

t
[who is basically just thinking out loud here and trying desperately 
to read something other than the heated-discussion-that-will-not-be-
mentioned...and who seems to be liking punctuation today!!! 8~) ]

p.s. I tried to search the archives, the main list, and the OT list 
to see if this had been brought up before but I didn't have much luck 
finding any results with the search words I was using! grrrr!!