[HPforGrownups] OOP - The Book, in General (some SHIP)

[Taryn Kimel]

No: HPFGUIDX 61797


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RobinTX:
We are dealing with 4 generations of characters in the books:

1)  Harry's Generation
2)  James and Lily's Generation
3)  Voldemort's Generation
4)  Dumbledore's Generation

We pretty much know who falls into what generation and of course, we 
have characters crossing generations, as well.  In this book, we 
learned more about James' circle of friends and I began to compare 
them to Harry's cirle of friends.  Ron and Sirius are obviously 
counterparts (best friend to Harry and James, respectively).  Then 
we've got Hermione and Lily.  This one is a bit more difficult to see 
right now, but obviously, they are both girls and at some point, Lily 
and James obviously become friends and then "more". Then you've got 
Neville and Peter (Wormtail), both in the circle, but just slightly 
less talented than their friends.  Lupin is a hard one to come up 
with a comparison for in Harry's generation...about the closest I can 
come up with is Ginny...she is also part of the circle, but slightly 
removed because she is a year younger, but both have suffered (Lupin 
a werewolf and Ginny being possessed by Voldemort).  

Me:
I'll disagree and say that Hermione's parallel is Lupin: the voice of sense in the group, responsible one, etc. Ginny would be more similar to Lily in being outside of the group a bit, as we see Lily was.

RobinTX:
The only problem with this is TIME.  JKR has said that she will only 
write 7 books and that would mean that Harry's saga ends with the end 
of his 7th year at Hogwarts.  Ron and Hermione would supposedly also 
be at Hogwarts the same amount of time as Harry and would not marry 
and have a child prior to leaving Hogwarts.  So, maybe it's not about 
an exact parallel.  Or perhaps, due to the war with Voldemort, they 
all leave school early.  I don't really see that happening, though.

Me:
I think we'll most likely have an epilogue wrapping up future events.

--Taryn

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