[HPforGrownups] Re: Ending the series (was Dept. of Mysteries, "Love" room.)

[Ladi lyndi]

No: HPFGUIDX 130375

madorganization  wrote:
 
I said that literature tells us what we 
need to hear as opposed to what we want to hear.  
 
 
If JKR is to make this story believable and real, 
then Harry will never be the same again.  We won't ever see that 
happy, healthy boy we met on the train to Hogwart's.  
 
 
Lynn:
 
Well, if literature is what we need to hear, then Harry will survive and go on to live happily ever after since that's what I need to hear.  However, since others probably need to hear something different, I guess the series won't satisfy everyone.  That's the problem with the statement that literature tells us what we need to hear, just who determines what that is?  Personally, I think literature is more about what the author wants to tell us.  After all, how would they know what each individual needs to hear?  Then, if we want to listen, we'll read what they've written.
 
I certainly hope Harry is never the same.  He wasn't a happy, healthy boy when he boarded that train to Hogwarts.  He was a malnourished, abused, apparently friendless, unhappy boy who has finally gotten nourishment, is cared for, has friends and has learned to laugh and have fun.  Obviously there is a different interpretation regarding the beginning of the book so who is to decide what type of ending is believeable or real?  Or even if it has to be real?   
 
People keep talking about what lessons there should be and how the classics do this or that.  However, JKR isn't CS Lewis, Tolkien, Austen, Hemingway or any other author.  She has her own distinctive voice and I'm looking for her to give her own very distinctive ending.  If the ending is one I don't want to listen to, then I'll probably never read a majority of the series again.  However, if I want to listen, then the series will probably end up just like my Austen books, having to be replaced over and over for having been read so often.
 
Lynn
(who personally would like to see the series end with Harry killing Voldemort while saving Dumbledore then going on to be the DADA teacher and eventually replacing Dumbledore as Headmaster.  He'll marry Ginny who will replace Flitwick when he retires.)


 

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