My 2 cents on the epilogue

[Sandra Collins]

No: HPFGUIDX 172274

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Joe" 
<joemurphyus at ...> wrote:

> 
> Until Harry Potter and the Death Stick, book 8: Harry, now an 
adult  with three children, is pulled out of retirement due to a 
sudden upsurge of dark magic and needs to retrieve the Elder 
Wand for one more adventure. Arrives in bookstores in early 
2008. ;-)


Hello Joe,
My thoughts exactly! When I first read it (I've read the book twice 
now) I thought it was an okay way to end it all, and bring us back 
to the innocent wonder of the magical school through the next 
generation's eyes and so on, but now I see it as "Son Of Potter - 
The Malfoy Brat Raises Voldermort" and off we go again, but with 
new main characters who can be better or worse than their 
parents. After the second read through, the epilogue doesn't sit 
very easily in so far as it just seems rushed, and I wouldn't be 
surprised if there were desperate executives at Bloomsbury and 
various movie companies who were screaming "Give us a safety 
net! Give us anything! We need easy money!" over her shoulder 
all the time she was writing the book - and of course, why would 
JKR want to walk away from being a global phenomenon? Her 
next books, with new characters in a new world with new 
problems, probably won't catch on in the same way and rely on 
her name to leap off bookshelves.
Or maybe I'm being cynical, and it really is just a randomly 
chosen year when the Potter, Weasley and Malfoy kids are going 
off to school.....

Sandra x.