Hated DH epilogue

[Annette]

No: HPFGUIDX 172607


How I agree with much of what Leah wrote here. I was expecting a far 
more rounded picture of the WW post the Battle for Hogwarts. What has 
it all been for? The pleas of the Sorting Hat for House Unity seem to 
have fallen on deaf ears. Slytherins are still the bad guys,worse 
still now, they are positively the untouchables! For all JK's 
promotion of House-elf rights, parity for non-wizard magical folk and 
acceptance of Muggle-borns/Half-bloods,there is still prejudice 
towards Slytherins. 
Instead of a pithy epilogue,there should have been a chapter, as in 
all previous books, where a feast was held to bring everyone 
together.There Harry could have stepped into DD's shoes and addressed 
the Hall; a moment to honour the fallen, to explain the purpose of 
his 'chosen lfe' and his debt to Snape. I feel to leave the ending as 
it was, Harry sloping off to eat a sandwich in the dorm, was 
shocking. It smacked of, "well, I've done my bit to save the world, 
so what?"
The 7th book was an exciting ride,an adventure, but spoiled by 
the "happy ever after".





--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "littleleahstill" 
<leahstill at ...> wrote:
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> Leah: 
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>SNIP.... I wouldn't expect a whoopedy-
> do 
> world after Voldemort's defeat, with all house elves liberated 
> overnight, but I would have expected some sort of abolition 
> movement.  I would have expected some evidence of a change in 
> mindset. SNIP
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> And then there's the whole Slytherin problem. From Hagrid in book 
> one onwards, Slytherin has been the despised, the evil house; it's 
> been reinforced in every book. Even in DH, DD doesn't say, "You've 
> been a brave chap,Severus, there must be good in Slytherin", 
> it's "we sort too soon", ie. you should have been a Gryffindor, 
mate 
> (and Pettigrew presumably in Slytherin).  As others have pointed 
> out, no Slytherin student is named as fighting with Harry.  If 
> Slytherin is indeed so corrupt and hopeless, why does it still 
> exist? Or why hasn't it been renamed Snape House and reformed?  
> We're talking about changing a school system here, not the world.  
> Harry's behaviour in the epilogue is totally inconsistent.  He 
> whispers to Albus Severus that it won't matter to the Potters if 
> their son is in Slytherin. But if Slytherin is what it seems to be, 
> it should matter.  On the other hand, if Harry believes that 
Snape's 
> life and death make Slytherin worthy of equal treatment, then why 
> does he whisper this, and not shout it out? Why has he allowed one 
> son to taunt the other all summer with the threat of being in 
> Slytherin, without apparently doing anything to stop him? 
> 
> If the septology had just been about the defeat of Voldemort, the 
> mythic overcoming of good by evil, I wouldn't mind.  This would be 
> as you say, an individual victory and the world goes on unchanged.  
> However expectations on the social level have been raised 
throughout 
> the book and there is no delivery of them at the end.  If Harry had 
> said to Albus Severus, go ahead, be in Slytherin, do things there 
we 
> can be proud of,...SNIP
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