PERSONALLY I LIKE THE EPILOGUE

[Milz]

No: HPFGUIDX 173123

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, jerri willmore 
<colouringpurple at ...> wrote:
>
> There has been a lot of epilogue bashing here, personally I really 
liked it and I especially liked the last sentence.
>    
> We are discussing Tolkien.  Actually he did write an epilogue to 
The Lord Of the Rings! It had Sam and his daughter Elanor (second 
fave T character) around 15 years after the book.  His editor told 
him to not include it and it is actually better without it.  But you 
can find it in the book "Return of the Shadow," I believe.
>    
> Anyone here like Jo's epilogue?
> 
> jerri
>

*raises hand*

I liked it. It gave me an idea of how their lives are like "19 years 
later". 

I don't think it would have been appropriate to go into great detail 
what happened--that would be too soap opera-ish. I mean, I happy she 
spared me details of George sinking into depression and developing a 
firewhisky dependency or Lavender Brown having a gender identity 
crisis or Ginny deciding to marry Harry before or after she gives 
birth to their first child or a custody fight over Teddy between 
Andromeda Tonks and Harry . (Don't worry, I just made that stuff up!)

>From the epilogue, I know that Harry, Ginny, Ron and Hermione have 
good lives after their ordeal. That's the best I can hope for any 
character in a book (or a real life person too!)

If Rowling publishes the encyclopedia, as she is rumored to do, it 
will bring more insight to the Potterverse. But the DH epilogue was a 
fitting end to the series, imo. It left me thinking that Harry and 
the rest of the wizarding world had a 'happily ever after'.

Milz