The Hook that was PoA CH 1-4

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No: HPFGUIDX 181457

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Mike" <mcrudele78 at ...> wrote:
<HUGE SNIP>
The panorama of life playing out 
> on a quaint canvas with a 14th century flavor. I longed for this 
> picturesque quaintness even more when we saw how bleak Diagon 
Alley 
> had become in HBP and worse in DH.
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Alla:

Mike, I am sooo with you. I loved those chapters too. I just wanted 
to say that I totally get why in the last books she would not 
portray such a lovely, yummy picture any more. Harry supposedly 
learns how grim and bleak the world he escaped too is and that this 
world is not really an escape, but on the contrary in need of 
saving, etc.

Oh, oh and I know you do not dig the interviews, so I am asking if 
you do want to know what fate awaited Fortesque in JKR's head at 
least?



But yes, having said this, I wish we would see the glimpse of 
Potters eating ice cream in the epilogue or something like that. I 
LOVED it.