Epilogue: What about FRED???

[va32h]

No: HPFGUIDX 172402

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Kamil <kamilaa at ...> wrote:
I too wondered where in the world poor Fred's namesake was.
I think that's what I hated most about the epilogue: to see such a
short snapshot of only the Trio's offspring. I didn't give a fig about
them, and I still don't.
 
I wanted to know if Harry is an Auror; I want to know if Hermione
really did effect change in the lives of House Elves; I want to know
if George had the heart to keep on with the joke shop, and if he did,
did Percy just show up one day and start filing things away, and then
came back a day or so later, just to make sure the sellers he'd
contacted the first day were keeping to their bargain, and after that
came back again, to ensure all the shipments came in alright, and so,
after a month or so just became part of the place, or did George have
to go on alone. *sniff*
 
I wanted to know these sorts of things - I really could care less what
they named their offspring.

va32h:

But that is the BEAUTY of a vague epilogue. You can have all the 
things you want for your ending (your idea that Percy would gradually 
become a partner in the joke shop is entirely fitting), and some 
other reader can have all the things they want in their ending.

I will never understand the obsessive need some readers have (not 
singling anyone out) to have each and every question, no matter how 
minute, answered in full by the author. 

As soon as JKR shared her characters with us, they became OUR 
characters too. Make whatever future you want for them. Who cares 
what JKR would have done - she didn't, you can. 

As for Fred - I will say it again, surely GEORGE was much closer to 
Fred than Harry or even Ron. If anyone would name a son after Fred it 
would be his twin. 

va32h