Moralising and preaching/Loose ends in Book 7

[Miles]

No: HPFGUIDX 145920

> Miles:
>  the main threads should have an end that at least relates
> to the other ends. If they are not, I doubt a series like Harry Potter
could
> be good literature. This is not a short story

Geoff Bannister wrote:
> Permit me to disagree with you in turn.
> If I read a story in which all the loose ends are tied up, it always
> seems to me as being too neat and too "clever".
>
> But it is not her style to tidy everything up neatly. The world of
> Harry Potter parallels our real world and interacts with it and, in
> so doing, I believe it leaves unfinished and unknowable bits and
> pieces strewn along the way. There are a myriad of odd facts which we
> do not know, probably not germane to the main story.

Miles:
I think we do *not* disagree. Yes, there will be many loose ends after book
7. There will be important issues of the Potterverse without a proper end -
for example I do not expect a solution for the corruption in the wizarding
society (maybe the beginning of a solution). This will be a loose end - but
not an important one for the story of Harry Potter. Important for the
Potterverse - yes. But Potterverse will cease to exist with the final
chapter of the final book, as far as it concerns JKR. We will know the
secret of Voldemort, we will know how love could vanquish him, we will know
about the protection Lily's sacrifice installed. We will see Harry as a man,
so this is the end of the Bildungsroman. We will see the final duel of Good
and Evil (not for the world, but for the story).

We will know the answers to the *important* questions, and lose ends hanging
in the decoration. That's what a novel should do (it's not a short story
after all).

Speaking of the meta level of the story, Good and Evil in general, love and
hate, moral/ethics, racism - I do not expect solutions, merely answers to
these loose ends. But this is something completely different.

Miles