Epilogue Bashing

[littleleahstill]

No: HPFGUIDX 172943

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, OctobersChild48 at ... wrote:
>
> There is so much bashing of the epilogue going on that I am 
posting this  
> excerpt from Cheryl Klein's (editor at Scholastic) blog about 
Deathly  Hallows.
>  
>  
> And this leads me to the epilogue. It is not receiving much love, 
I  seeâ€"some 
> people hate it because it doesn’t answer all their questions, 

Leah:
Yes, this was one of the reasons I disliked it. Apparently there may 
be an encylopedia so perhaps information was deliberately 
concentrated. But I felt short-changed.  If the book had ended with 
no epilogue, I wouldn't have minded so much, but if there's going ot 
be one, let it be more of an overview.  As Geoff points out, Tolkien 
did it in a very few pages.  Eliot did it brilliantly 
in 'Middlemarch' in only  a few pages.. In the end, I got the 
impression that there were only a few people who really mattered in 
the Potterverse.

(snip) I think it paid off five essential themes of the series  (not 
just 
> the 
> book): 

Leah:
I have no problems with what is said about Family, Maturity, Fame 
and Power. I have no problem with Harry not being a huge hero 
figure.  Choice is where I get really hung up on the epilogue. I 
don't want to repeat what I've posted a few times but we just do not 
deal with the House problem, with the Slytherin problem; you still 
don't choose to go into Slytherin, so why is it still there? Then 
there is social justice, which is raised throughout the series, but 
is not dealt with adequately.


And finally. The epilogue is in my opinion, one of the most badly 
written parts of the entire seven books.  JKR can do famuly scenes 
brilliantly, this one (apart from the Severus moment) was just banal.

Leah