End of Book 7

[Anne]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:
> 
> The books began with a prologue, ten years before Harry's first 
> year at Hogwarts. An epilogue is already written, which could 
> easily take us ten years past the Trio's leaving school (if they 
> survive, that is.)
>

Hmmm. I guess I never thought of that as a prologue (it did 
say "Chapter One, The Boy Who Lived" in my Scholastic paperback 
edition). It certainly did set the stage, though. That's how Harry 
got to the beeping Dursleys' house to begin with. I'm waiting to see 
what "surprising" things JKR will tell us about them in OotP. 

Anne U
(wondering if the Dursleys in canon are as "redeemable" as Draco 
Malfoy is in fan fiction... well maybe not THAT redeemable!;-)