End of Harry Potter Series

[melodiousmonkey]

No: HPFGUIDX 44787

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "psychic_serpent" <psychic_serpent at y...> 
wrote:

> >   The whole "dream" 
> > thing shows a lack of planning and imagination on the writers 
part. 
> > They've painted (or written) themselves into a box and the only 
way 
> > out is to make it all a dream (cop out, cop out, cop out!!!).  

Yes, I tend to agree with that.  I feel cheated when I find out 
nothing has actually happened.

> Barb wrote:

> It wouldn't even have to be a matter of a 
> boy named Harry waking up from a dream; it could be that all along 
she    
> intended the epilogue to be about a girl named Joanne waking up and 
> preparing to take her first book manuscript, about a boy wizard 
named 
> Harry Potter, to an agent, in hopes that she would escape her 
dreary 
> life and find success as a writer. 

That is pretty good!  But how about this:  11 year-old Harry wakes 
from his dream. Disoriented, he sits up and bumps his head on the 
roof of his small cupboard under the stairs.  He remembers having a 
strange and wonderful dream, but barely remembering any of it.  He 
lies back down, rubs his head, and as he does so his fingers sweep 
over his lightening bolt scar.

Then, as an epilogue, JKR refers the reader to "Harry Potter and the 
Philosopher's Stone", sending the world into an infinite recursion of 
re-reading the series.  I'm not saying that this is the best way to 
end the book.  Nor do I think it will happen (in fact I am quite sure 
the books won't end in a dream), and few of us need any further 
motivation to re-read the books!  I think however JKR ends it, it 
will be amazing, and leave us all more than satisfied.  Maybe 
emotionally shattered, but definitely not dissatisfied.

Paul
-- this is my first post - hopefully it went okay.