A fine meal, and afterwards, terrible coconut pie!

[Sandra Collins]

No: HPFGUIDX 172600

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Pete Z 
<kelticpete at ...> wrote:
>
> The epilogue:
> The epilogue is just how the real world is.
> If one were an editor, or even a book reviewer, it
> might be acceptable. but seriously, as a fan?
> 
> Pete
>

True, but that's another glaring omission from JKR. I always 
wondered what on earth the characters could do after leaving 
Hogwarts, and she never said a word about their lives. I started a 
thread on this a year or so ago, and the best anyone came up 
with was Dragon Tickler, or something along those lines - 
no-one had a clue  but faith was given that JKR would mention 
something for Harry. But instead, she thought of nothing 
because there was never a point to Hogwarts existing in the first 
place. 
This bothered me about book one, all those years ago. A child is 
summoned to Hogwarts to learn about magic and will leave 7 
years later with qualifications appropriate for the mock medieval 
world of magicland, and although they can return to Muggleworld 
as and when they please (somehow) they're trained for 
absolutely nothing in that Muggleland and thus have to get by 
(should they prefer it to Magic Town) doing either jobs where a 
CV is not required, or Confunding everyone into believeing 
they're qualified at something which they're not. I was looking 
forward to JKR coming up with a role for Harry, Hermione, Ron 
and the others, even a vague suggestion would have been fun, 
but nothing was offered up. So other than being a dad, what 
exactly IS Harry, the grown up child-hero of the world "19 years 
later"? Or Ginny, or Draco. They can't all work for the Ministry or 
sell magical things from magical shops to magical people. 
There was never a point to Hogwarts existing and therefore the 
HP world, and now that book 7 has gone without any suggestion 
of their lives beyond studying odd subjects, I'm left feeling empty 
about it all.

Sandra, not too happy.