What Next for Harry?

[career advisor]

No: HPFGUIDX 176786

<<Allie:

I immediately thought JKR was making a little nod to Stephen King with 
her "19 years later," since it seemed such an odd, uneven number. 
(Why not 20 years later? Or 15?) His Dark Tower series is full of 
references to 19 and he wrote a forward called, "On Being Nineteen." 
I believe it's well-known that he is a fan of hers, I don't know if 
she is a fan of his though.

Was I the only one?>>
   
  No, not only. I was reading DH hoping for a reference to Randall Flagg. LOL!
   
  But the real reason that JKR used nineteen years was that it fit the circumstances of Ted's arc. At twenty years Fleur's daughter (she was obviously conceived within three months of the end of the war and named after the victory) would no longer have been in school and thus he couldn't see her off. But the general idea is that it is set about twenty years latter at the cusp of the new genertion. Ted would very much be Harry's Bill to James and Al if she ever does a sequel.. 
   
  I keep on hoping Steven King does have some influence on JKR though because of one of three reasons.
   
  1. He might be able to convince her to write another HP novel some day, a more adult one in the same way that Diane Duane has with the young wizards series. But JKR should take at least a ten year break. 
   
  As an aside if I were to pick on person to continue the series besides JKR it would be Ms. Duane for two reason she has already written her own 'kvery succesful kids wizard series and two she is used to writing universes created by other writers, proof of which is her numerous Star Trek novels.   
  
 
  2. He might convince her to let him write a HP based novel or at least a short story for charity. Or he might convince her to start writing short stories of any sort, a form she seems to dislike.
   
  3. Or three he might convince her to have the Harry Potter novels done over as graphic novels, as he had done to the Gunslinger series. Graphic novels can fill in nuances of character  and setting that that you can't find in normal novels. Due to the pictures   
   
  DA Jones
   
   

       
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