End of Harry Potter Series

[Haggridd]

No: HPFGUIDX 44784

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "bohcoo" <sydenmill at m...> wrote:

>  
> It would be a tidy way to end the series -- but I hope I am wrong, 
> don't you?
> 
> "bohcoo"

There are two questions which need to be answered here:  Whether JKR 
has indeed foreshadowed Harry's waking up from a dream; and whether 
this is desirable. To answer the second-- and perhaps more important--
question, having the entire Wizarding World be but a teenage boy's 
dream would be worse than a cop-out, it would deny its legitimacy. Of 
such fragile timbers is our "willing suspension of disbelief" 
constructed.  I can only dimly picture the profound sense of 
disappointment that would be felt by millions of readers of the HP 
books.  In all probability, this ending would be repressed in the 
minds of all those who enjoy the possibility of such a Wizarding 
World actually existing in parallel with our own. 

As for the first question, based in part on my argument in the 
previous paragraph, I cannot believe that JKR would knowingly 
undermine the "reality" of Harry's world.  Bohcoo has given only one 
text citation for this theory.  I myself have not reread the four 
books with this thought in mind, but in none of the half-dozen times 
I did read the books, in both UK and US versions, I do not remember 
dream scenes that did not relate to the story at hand.  I didn't 
catch even a whiff of this "and the Harry woke up" foreshadowing from 
the text. I realize that I am not the authority on HP.  In my next 
reading, I will be alert for the possibility.

Meanwhile, rather than argue the desirability of the dream theory, I 
would like to see more specific examples of textual citations by 
bohcoo that support this theory.  This might help focus the debate.

Haggridd