My 2 cents on the epilogue

[laureng1958]

No: HPFGUIDX 173905

verosomm:

> Since there are about 100,000 posts in the last 18 hours or so, I
> can't go through them all... but I think the fact that it's 19 years
> later is HIGHLY significant.  That will be Sept. 1, 2017, almost
> exactly 10 years from now, and didn't JKR said other than the
> encyclopedia she may revisist the WW from someone else's perspective
> in "maybe ten years or so"?  I've heard several fans attribute
> this "10 years" quote to her, and, though I myself can't seem to
find
> it, I've heard it from several HP "fanatics" and ALL of them told me
> this BEFORE Friday, so there's no way they read the book and took a
> wild stab in the dark.
>

Something occurred to me about September 1, 2017. Harry and friends
would be 37, the same age that his parents, Petigrew, Lupin, Snape
and Sirius would have been at the start of the book. That generation
is gone; all died untimely and violent deaths. None of them had much
of a life. Snape and Sirius spent most of their adulthoods being
incorrectly labeled DE. Lily and James died young. Lupin had a life
full of prejudice and, like Lily and James, had little time to spend
with his new family. I can't help but compare the happy, peaceful and
contented Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny with the Marauders, Lily and
Snape. They are having the life that the earlier generation could not
have.

laureng1958