Harry's ideal ending & my idea of a horrible ending

[yolandacarroll]

No: HPFGUIDX 86244

Diana wrote:
>   It occured to me that the ideal ending to book seven from Harry's 
> point of view might just be to be a normal teenage wizard.  
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Depending on when Voldemort is defeated, Harry might 
not have too much time left as a "teenager".  I do 
want Harry to live through his confrontation with 
Voldemort and have a nice happy, normal adult wizard 
life.

> He might
> not be an auror, or headmaster or famous Quiddith player.  He might 
> be quite happy being just Harry, with no prophecy hanging over his 
> head anymore, no more Voldemort nightmares, no more weight of the 
> world on his shoulders.  

I'd love to see him as an auror since he has both 
expressed interest in being an auror and because he 
obviously has talents that lean toward that area not 
least of which is that he's a powerful wizard.  Not 
many fifth (third?) year students can make a corporeal 
patronus.

Once Voldemort's gone that will be a weight off Harry's 
shoulders and I for one am looking forward to that.  I 
want to see Harry have a normal semi-exciting life.  
Even with Voldemort out of the picture everything will 
not be quiet.  Harry said, "trouble finds me" and I 
personally don't think trouble will stop finding him 
just cause Voldemort's gone.  Nature abhors a vacuum.  
Once Voldemort is gone a new dark wizard/threat will 
come up.

I'm doing this from memory, but didn't Dumbledore defeat 
Grindewald in the early 1940's and about that same time 
wasn't a teenage Tom Riddle releasing the monster from 
the CoS?  One threat to the WW was going down while 
another was rising to power.

The wizarding world has always had dark wizards and it's 
also always had good wizards to stand up to them.  
"Constant Vigilance" will be needed.  The WW will need 
aurors like Harry.

>    And no more having to live with the Dursleys!  He wouldn't need 
> their protection anymore so he could go where he liked.  
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As soon as Voldemort's gone, I want them out of Harry's 
life.  (Actually, I want Harry to come back and gloat 
about his new wonderful, exciting life.)  However, toward 
the end of the summer before his seventh year, he'll be 
able to do magic.  I am so looking forward to that August.  
The Dursleys are evil + Harry has a temper = Something 
many HP fans have been looking forward to for a long time.

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>    I could see Harry dating Ginny by the end of the series, or 
> possibly even still looking for the right girl.  Ron and Hermione 
> could be seriously dating, with Harry happy as can be about them 
> finally getting together. 
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I am somewhat rooting for Harry/Ginny, but I'm not a big 
shipper.  I think there's a whole WW full of young women 
out there who'd love to date the "Boy who lived".  I know 
Harry hates the whole "famous Harry Potter" thing, however 
I think that as he gets older he'll simply except it and 
hope that some people see past his "famous" persona.  
Seeing as some people already have, I don't see this as 
a big problem.  Harry will have more witches than he can 
wave a wand at interested in him.  So, I am hesitant to 
hazard a guess at who he'll end up with.

Yolanda