[HPFGU-OTChatter] Life After Hogwarts

[Kathryn Cawte]

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Date: 14 January 2003 20:52:41
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Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Life After Hogwarts

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*??
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I'm not actually betting on her sticking to that. Not to doubt her word or
anything but while some authors make statements like that and rigidly stick
to them others don't. I believe she firmly meant it when she said it but
whether after se's published book 7 she finds she can stick to it or whether
the characters keep yelling at her to write more (or she just realises how
much more money she could make) is not certain.

After all Conan Doyle didn't want to write any more Sherlock Holmes to the
extent wher e he killed him off ... and yet he still came back anyway. I
personally have trouble believeing that if Harry is still alive at the end
of book 7 that she won't at some point end up writing more. If i were her
(and believe me the books would turn out much differently if I were ... not
as well written though) I would be very very tempted to have Harry die
defeating Voldie, and not just die but be stopmed into a million pieces,
dying a death from which no-one could ever hope to resurrect him because
that's the only way I could stop writing about him. 
I can't think of any fantasy examples of authors having to kill characters
to end the series (although I'm sure there are many) but the writer of the
Morse books said he felt it was time for Morse to die because he wanted the
series to end and because Oxford now had a crime rate similar to NYC :)

K