[HPforGrownups] Re: End of Harry Potter Series

[sugarkadi at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 44729



 bohcoo" <sydenmill at m...> wrote:
> > It struck me as I reread the books that Rowling has been 
> > foreshadowing the ending of the Harry Potter series all the way 
> > through the books:  Unfortunately, I think she is going to have 
> Harry 
> > awake from a dream, at the age of 17 or 18, living with the 
> Dursleys -
> > - with a thought that he had just had some incredible, 
> fantastic 
> > dream.

I'm not much of a writer, but my english teacher last year told us that ending a story with the character waking up and everything having been a dream is the ultimate cop-out.  I don't think she'll do that.  She's too good a writer and has read enough stories to know what makes a good one, and the ending having the character waking up is not one of them.  and remember, Rowling said the last chapter will basically be an epilogue, saying what happens to the survivers.  That means Harry would have to wake up on about the last page and we would be left with something incredibly unfulfilling, which Rowling has said is something that bothers her in books.  I don't think you have to worry about her doing that to us.  =)

~Katey