[HPforGrownups] Veterans Suffering. was Re: CHAPDISC: 34, The Forest Again.

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 185073

As it is, the "all is well" is just awful

Yes I agree. And JKR could have at least given Harry a mysterious limp
or something in the Epilogue.

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I don't agree. She wrote a story of a boy's growing up, fighting a horrible
evil and surviving that evil. And living beyond it. I don't need to read
that he had a limp or a scar or something of that sort to realize that in
reality, anyone who has survived the things Harry did is going to have
invisible if not visible scars. That the fictional Harry was written in a
way that indicates that he was able to recover as completely as possible
from what he went through is not a detraction from the epilogue but a plus.
He lived, got a job, got married, had kids of his own. He did not succumb to
self-pity, or wallow in despair. Its a win all around and a testament to
people who do survive and do so well.

Lynda


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