The editor was sobbing

lupinlore rdoliver30 at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 29 18:41:27 UTC 2007


No: HPFGUIDX 166864


> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eggplant107" <eggplant107@>
> wrote:
<SNIP>
> >At any rate after what the editor said we can be sure the series
does
> >not end with And they all lived happily ever after
> >
>
> va32h, still disagreeing:
> <SNIP>
> Just because the editor cried doesn't mean there is no possiblity
of a
> happy ending. People do cry when they are happy.


I'll second that.  I very seriously doubt I'll cry at anything that
happens in DH short of dropping it on my foot, but the editor's tears
could mean anything, including the fact that he knows he's about to
lose his biggest cash cow now that the series is over -- the pain in
the bank account would make anybody cry, :-).

But seriously (well, half-seriously, anyway) I don't believe he
really gave much away.  As I recall, he acknowledged there are
deaths, which is something we knew already since I think JKR herself
has said that "both goodies and baddies" bite the dust in DH.  He
also did not say that he was crying specifically over the deaths, or
over the ending, but because it was "a very emotional book."

That actually bodes well in a lot of ways.  Many of us have observed
over time that lots of the emotional arcs in the series never seem to
reach completion.  There are any number of highly-charged
plotlines "hanging fire" at the moment -- Percy's fate, the
background and fate of Snape, the fate of Draco, the fate of
Wormtongue, the relationship or lack thereof between Harry and Lupin,
the story of Petunia, the revelations about Dumbledore to which JKR
has alluded, a Weasley wedding, R/H romance, ongoing H/G romance, the
fate of Umbridge, the future of Neville, the ultimate fate of Dobby,
Kreacher, and the other house elves, and so on.  All of them could be
very emotional; some more than others, I admit.  I doubt all of them
will be addressed -- even in a large book JKR just doesn't have time -
- and some that are addressed probably will be presented in a matter-
of-fact way.  Still, there is more than enough there to leave a
sensitive person in tatters, happy ending or not.


Lupinlore, who observes that if Harry dies the price of hit men will
go through the roof, since JKR will have two publishing companies and
a major studio putting out contracts on her





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