All a dream? WAS End of Harry Potter series.

[arcum42]

No: HPFGUIDX 44783

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "bluesqueak" <pipdowns at e...> wrote:
> "And so Harry woke up and found it had all been a dream."
> 
> ARRGH! NO! BAD-JKR ELF! Go bang your head on the oven door 
> immediately!
> 
> No.
> 
> Absolutely not.
> 
> No, no, no, no, NO.
> 
> Errm... no, I don't think 'it was all a dream' is a terribly good 
> ending. Did you guess that?

Don't worry, I don't particularly think JKR does either. Take a look at this quote from an interview:

"I sweated blood over that story to make it work, but it really came from my heart. Only later can you start analyzing it. But you can overanalyze, too. I had a woman tell me it was clear to her that Harry was so abused that he becomes schizophrenic, and that everything that happens from the point of the arrival of the letters about Hogswart is his own escape into a sort of torture-fantasy. I tried to be polite and say something like, "Well, that would be one way of looking at it, I guess." But I was kind of scared. One of the nicest things about writing for children is that you don't find them deconstructing novels. Either they like it or they don't like it."

If she thinks the series as an escapism fantasy is overanalysing, I suspect the series as a dream would fall into a similar catagory...

--Arcum