The (Hated) Epilogue

[Katie]

No: HPFGUIDX 172244

I'm seeing a theme here...

No, I didn't love the epilogue, either. It was trite and lite and 
didn't fit with what we know of the series, the characters, or JKR's 
writing. I felt like she had written it a long time ago (which she 
did actually do, right?) and then felt she couldn't, or shouldn't, 
alter it. 

However, she really should have. I thought DH was a fantastic book, 
best of the series. It was dark, morbid, scary, heart-breaking, 
redemptive, exciting...just fantastic. And then along came the 
epilogue...it just did not work. 

Don't get me wrong  -  I wanted an epilogue. Desperately. I really 
wanted to know what happened. But I wanted it to be sooner than 19 
years later, first of all. That was too far. And, I wanted it to be 
true to the series. It just was off. Too Disney and cute and 
perfect. 

All that said, I did love seeing Hermione and Ron together. I was 
never a huge fan of Harry/Ginny, so that was just ok. I also loved 
the comment Harry made about Snape being one of the bravest men he 
had ever known. That made me cry. I also enjoyed hearing that 
Neville was the Herbology prof, and that Hagrid was still at 
Hogwarts. But aside from those things, I didn't love it. It was a 
snapshot, really, not an epilogue. 

However, after writing over 4000 beautiful, remarkable, classic 
pages of wonder and magic, I'm willing to allow JK a little slack 
and a crappy epilogue.  ;) KATIE