What happens in DH?/ Fantasy endings

[julie]

No: HPFGUIDX 171506


> > <lindseyharrisst@> wrote:
> > 
> > <SNIP>
> > > What does everyone else think? PS I can't believe this is the 
last 
> > > time we will get to do this, even if we stay in fandom after 
it's all 
> > > over.   
> > > What are people's *fantasy* endings?
> > 

Julie:
Harry lives! Well, that better be the real ending too ;-)

I do see Ron and Hermione married, and Harry and Ginny
ending up together also--not necessarily my first choice,
but JKR put it in my head and now it's stuck!

Anyway, I expect Hermione would work for the Ministry,
where Arthur is the Minister of Magic. Ron might play
Quidditch for a while, then become a coach for a national
team. They'll no doubt have a passel of red-headed kids,
and one will have the middle name of Harry to honor their
greatest friend (no need to call two of their nearest and
dearest "Harry," and since Harry Potter is NOT dead, a
middle name suffices).

Harry will become an auror, and maybe Ginny will work as
an Unspeakable (much as Harry's mother possibly did).
At the end of the epilogue--July 31, 2007, Harry's 27th
birthday--they will have 3 boys, all named after the men
most infuential in their lives. The oldest will be Albus
James Potter, a well-behaved yet whimsical lad, and wise 
beyond his years. The second and third will be a set of
twins, given to sibling rivalry and early use of magic
to pull pranks on each other, two mischievous boys named
Sirius Arthur Potter and Severus Ronald Potter. 

(Hee, okay, maybe I'm kidding about that second twin,
even though I suspect Severus Snape will greatly aid in
Harry's defeat of Voldemort!)

Neville will become the Herbology professor at Hogwarts
and eventually Gryffindor Head of House. He will marry
a Squib, who can comfortably live in the magical world
with him, but who is not overcome by magic envy (perhaps
a granddaughter of Mrs Figg?).

After he has redeemed himself and helped Harry reunite
the Hogwarts Houses to defend the school from Voldemort,
Draco will become the Potions master and professor at
Hogwarts. Eventually he will become Slytherin's Head of
House, and he and Neville will engage in a (mostly) 
friendly rivalry, similar to what we've seen between
Snape and McGonagall over Quidditch matches.

Luna will become a Magical animal breeder and handler 
(Thestrals, Hippogriffs, Unicorns, etc). Due to her 
complete inability to be insulted by his sarcasm, and
her uncanny perceptiveness and ability to take him to
task with her artless candor, Draco will become deeply 
attracted to her despite himself. They will eventually
marry and produce a new and more enlightened generation
of Malfoys. (I really do think they could make a great
couple, with much more chemistry than I see in Luna and
Harry or Luna and Ron. And just forget Luna and Neville!
IMO of course ;-)

The Weasley twins will open a dozen or more franchises
of their joke shop throughout the world. They will both
eventually marry, one to a Muggle.

As for the adults, Lupin (who will survive an encounter
with Greyback) and Tonks will marry and have a family.
Bill and Fleur's marriage will flourish, and Charlie
will find a dragon-loving mate (a male one, since some
wizards must be gay!).

Snape is the one JKR was going to kill who was instead
given a reprieve. He will be exonerated of Dumbledore's
murder (Dumbledore died of the Ring curse, reactivated
when the life-supporting "stopper of death" Snape had
administered to save him was neutralized by the cave
potion), and his many contributions to the defeat of 
Voldemort will be recognized. He will get an Order of
Merlin but no Congeniality award, which will be fine
by him!
 
Snape will combine his Potions ability, healing skills
and DADA knowledge toward research and finding cures
for various Wizard maladies, including Werewolfism. 
All this he will do squirrelled away in a Potions lab
far from other people (and especially children), who
he doesn't much like anyway! He will deign to accept the
occasional visitor, but they better have a good reason
for interrupting his important work!

McGonagall will remain Hogwarts Headmistress for many
years to come. Trelawney will give up teaching (it 
made her nervous anyway) and after a brief fling with
the much younger Victor Krum, will settle in Ireland
among the leprechauns. Arthur as mentioned will become
the Minister of Magic, and he and Molly will welcome
their first grandchild courtesy of Bill and Fleur, to
be followed by a good two dozen more!

Who did I leave out? Well, I have a weird thing about
sticking with plausible scenarios, and since some 
wizards *will* die in DH, I'm sadly giving up Hagrid,
Percy (who turns back to the good side first and 
saves one of the twins before he is summarily killed,
thus recapturing his family's love and respect in 
death), Moody, Seamus and Parvati--the latter two
being the two JKR did not originally intend to kill.
(I know the two she didn't intend to kill may well
be more central characters than these two, but this
is my fantasy, right? ;-)

All the bad guys die, BTW. Bye bye Voldemort, Peter
Pettigrew, Bellatrix, Lucius, Narcissa, Greyback,
and...well, I'll let Umbridge live as long as she's
confined to St. Mungo's mental ward!

That's all I can think of for the moment,

Julie