Hated DH epilogue

[houyhnhnm102]

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Sue White <susanawhite123 at ...> wrote:

> Why did JKR ruin this book and perhaps series 
> for me with the trite epilogue?

> I quite literally laughed out loud as I read it, 
> it was unbelievable: the children's names, the 
> treatment of grown-up Draco etc...

> Am I alone?

houyhnhnm:

I thought the epilogue was Rowling at her most 
Austenesque.  Here is what the late critic Mark 
Schorer had to say about the ending of _Pride and 
Prejudice_:

>>The movement of these individual human beings 
exists, of course, within a larger movement, that 
of the whole world about them.  Not everything in 
that world is happy at the end.  The Bennets are 
left with their entailed estate.  Mrs. Bennet, like 
the life force, will persist as foolishly as 
ever . . . The gaunt spector of Lady Catherine 
has not been laid . . . Pride and predjudice have 
not departed from the world.  And Jane Austen need 
not have feared:  hers is a moral relativism, and 
the world is not intolerably bright by any means.  
Still, it is brighter.<<

Similarly, not everything in the Wiazarding World 
is happy at the end.  The sorting goes on. The 
rivalry between the houses goes on.  Gryffindors 
and Slytherins still dislike and mistrust one another.  
Draco and Harry nod curtly to each other, but they 
are not friends.  No doubt, the house elves are still 
enslaved.  The Ministry of Magic is as undemocratic 
as ever.  Other magical beings are not recognized 
as equals by wizards, despite Grawp and the last 
minute aid of the Centaurs.  Still, that world is 
brighter.  Voldemort is gone.  A new Dark Lord has 
not yet arisen.  Harry's scar has not pained him for
nineteen years. All is well (for the time being.)