[HPforGrownups] Epilogue Bashing

[Metylda]

No: HPFGUIDX 172944


--- OctobersChild48 at aol.com 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.
>  
>  
<snip>

bamf, answering a lot of posts bout the epilogue:

I don't care what an editor says we should take from
the epilogue.  I've had teachers try to tell me that
Eve was subservient to Adam before the fall in
Paradise Lost. I disagree.

What I took from the Epilogue was nothing other than
something so divorced from what we had just read it
killed the book for me. It wasn't serving coconut pie
at the end of a fabulous feast.  It was serving fillet
mignon in a delicate wild mushroom reserve with
asparagus tips on the side and them for dessert, it
was having a bag of candy corn thrown at you from
across the room. The two things just don't go
together.

I am not a shipper.  I have never cared who Harry
ended up with and would have been more pleased if he
had ended up alone, raising Teddy himself. (Why does
he need a job? He inherited two substantial fortunes!)

We learn nothing in the epilogue that we didn't learn
in the book, with the exception of the names of their
brats.  

I would rather have read about the few weeks following
the events.  I wanted to know how George coped with
the loss of his brother - his twin - the person that's
always been there for him his whole life.  I wanted to
know if Lavender survived.  I want to know how things
changed at the ministry and if Umbridge ever got her
comeuppance. 

To me, the epilogue paints a false picture.  Sure,
eventually you get to a place where you can move on
and be happy, but the epilogue misses out on the fact
that it isn't easy.  It won't be easy to mourn those
who have fallen, no matter how valiant their deaths. I
would rather have ended with a dedication at Hogwarts
to those that fought, with the scene ending as Fleur
states she's pregnant.  To me, that shows that life
continues, even amid the tragedy. That after the dust
settles, the next generation will be born. 
 
I'm allowed to complain about feeling let down.  As a
fan, it's my job.

*putting several knuts down, as I spoke more than to
coppers...*

bamf

There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.

*****

Me t wyrd gewf


       
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