The "Positively" Final Battle (was: Wording of the Prophecy)

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 146424

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Dave Hardenbrook <DaveH47 at m...> 
wrote:
 
Dave:

> Anyway, these kind of speculations are interesting -- I do feel Jo
> has to find a way to give the series true closure... As well as rescue
> herself from the fate of Arthur Conan Doyle and L. Frank Baum --
> condemned for life to appease the "insatiable Oliver Twists" with
> book after book, _ad infinitum_, about the same damn Universe. :) :)

Geoff:
There is a difference though in that Conan Doyle's stories were 
episodic. Each one stands alone. JKR has already suggested that the 
last chapter will be an epilogue rounding off where everyone stands.

I suspect it will be more like the situations I found myself in when a 
lot younger and I would be helping out at a Christian holiday centre 
during the summer. At the end of the three weeks or whatever, we would 
bid each other goodbye, go off with the wealth of memories we had 
accumulated over the period and go our own ways, sometimes meeting to 
remember what went on but realising that the world had moved on.

Those were the days my friend,
we thought they'd never end....

That will be the closure. The Hogwarts chapters will have ended and all 
our heroes - at least those who survive the culls threatened by members 
of this group - will follow their own lives, some together, some 
separate. That's life, guys.