Ending the series (was: Dept. of Mysteries, "Love" room.)

[eggplant107]

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"deborahhbbrd" <hubbada at u...> wrote:

> to leave Earth with this most impressive
> and delightful set of travelling companions,
> he chooses to stay. He has formed 
>'loving bonds' with his adoptive father,
> and will voluntarily forget everything
> that has happened. 

The very very worst ending of the Potter series would be for Harry and
all other wizards to lose their powers to defeat Voldemort and they
become Muggles and even worse they are happy about it. Too many
fantasy and science fiction stories end with the object of wonder
being destroyed, the alien planet blows up, the incredible creature is
killed , the secret to the amazing invention is destroyed, and their
exciting adventure is forgotten, so everybody can go back to their
safe pedestrian lives. 

> I do certainly trust her to be at least 
> as subtle and imaginative, and not plunge
> us all into either a Stephen King bout 
> of violent silliness or a diabetic coma. 

Don't underestimate Stephen King, he's written some very good stuff,
and he's a big Potter fan too. Of course King has written some junk
too, his problem is that he writes too much. I hope Rowling has seen
the revenge fantasy film "Kill Bill" and takes some inspiration from
it, the last Star Wars movie too. We've already seen Harry the angelic
little boy, it would be interesting to see him transform into an angel
of death.
The thing is, if Harry were a real person I'd want him to have a happy
life and always do the most moral thing, but as he is a fictional
character I don't want that at all; I want him to do the most
interesting thing and have the most interesting life.

Eggplant