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[lizzyben04]

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> Sherry now:
> 
> Call me crazy or not insightful, but what I took out of the ending
was that
> JKR was showing us how much the world does not really change after war.
> People still hang on to their prejudices and preconceived notions.  I
> thought it was very realistic, though disappointing.  I'm a fan of
the main
> character, so didn't like some of the Slytherin "baddies", but I
actually
> did hope for house unity and wanted to see the four houses band
together to
> defend Hogwarts.  I was disappointed it didn't happen.  and yet, after
> thinking about it, I thought, this ending is probably far more
realistic,
> with not much really changing overnight.  Maybe, if we were to see
the world
> in 30, 40, 50 years, things might have begun to change, but for now,
it felt
> like something pretty typical after a war.
> 
> Sherry
>

lizzyben:

So what was the point of it all? Gryfindors & Slytherins still hate
each other, Slytherin still equals evil, and there'll be another Dark
Lord in ten years, tops. Voldemort was the symptom, not the disease.
And he was a symptom of a profoundly broken, corrupt, fragmented,
oppressive society - as long as that society does not change, it'll
keep on churning out Dark Lords on a regular basis. The only thing
that would bring real peace is reforms & changes in that society - for
example, integrating Slytherin into Hogwarts, lessening rivalries &
hatreds, etc. But there's no indication that any of that happened;
meaning there's not a whole lot of hope here for the fate of the
Wizarding World.

And it would have been *so easy* to go a different route. Why not show
Slyths working w/other students to save their lives? Why not have
Harry & Draco work together in some small way? Or Snape working with
the Order? Some acknowledgment in the epilogue that little Albus
Severus & Scorpius (lol) have become friends? It would have been
dramatically satisfying & show that Harry's fight against LV resulted
in real, long-lasting change. Why was JKR so insistent on *not* giving
us that type of ending? Seems like most readers wanted it. Indeed, it
seems like the whole structure of the series was leading to it - but
we didn't get it.

That's the fundamental *weirdness* of this ending to me. Other
novels about rivalries or feuds end w/some sense of reconciliation
between the feuding parties, of lessons learned & wisdom gained. Not
this one. In Romeo & Juliet, the tragic deaths lead the feuding
families to reconcile & seek peace. But here, it's like the Capulets
realized that the Montagues are totally evil & worthless, & it really
was all the Montagues' fault anyway. Uh, yay?  


lizzyben, who couldn't even be happy about Evil!Dumbledore.