Hated DH epilogue

[Mari]

No: HPFGUIDX 172575

> houyhnhnm:

> I thought the epilogue was Rowling at her most 
> Austenesque.

Mari now:

This is a nice way of putting it. I happen to agree, because the 
epilogue satisfied me too, though I know I am in the minority ;-)


houyhnhnm again:

> 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.)

Mari again:

Not everything is happy, no. I do see some evidence, however, that 
the generation that includes the children of Harry, Ginny, Ron and 
Hermione will be perhaps a little less likely to make instant snap 
judgements about people or other magical creatures. I can't help 
hoping that Slytherin might, at some time in the future, be 
integrated into the life of Hogwarts in a way they were not in 
Harry's time. Harry has seen outstanding courage shown by at least 
one Slytherin, and has taken the time to tell his son about this so 
that he knows the house can produce people worthy of emulation:

 "Albus Severus", Harry said quietly, so that nobody but Ginny could 
hear, and she was tactful enough to pretend to be waving to Rose,  
who was now on the train, "you were named for two headmasters of 
Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin and he was probably the bravest 
man I ever knew."

What more need be said? :-D Harry has come a LONG way since the first 
book.