[HPforGrownups] Epilogue (was Re: Ron and Parseltongue)

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 183316

>>  Shelley:
>> > I just find it hokey that Rowling gave Ron this gift last
>> > second to be able to wrap up the series.
>>
>
>     Lynda:
>      I never thought of it as being a "last minute gift" of Ron's. She'd
> already established that the Weasley kids, Ron included have mimicry 
> gifts.
> And even the non-language gifted among people (me included) can repeat
> limited sounds to make a passable attempt at another language (believe me 
> I
> know--I sang Habanera this year in my community choir--no French speaker
> would have been able to decipher my words but the audience gushed at how
> well the choir did--no I was not the soloist).
>      Its all a matter of what you choose to believe--did Rowling simply 
> add
> stuff on to finish the series, or did she simply choose not to include 
> what
> seemed to her to be unnecessary examples of what some of her characters
> gifts were until later in the series or only in limited fashion until the
> end of the series. I think she chose the latter, and I understand why. It
> kept the series moving in a forward direction and did not cause it to be
> bogged down with a lot of extra stuff!
>
> Lynda

Shelley:
No, I don't think it's a matter of Rowling PURPOSELY CHOOSING not to include 
examples earlier as not to clutter up the series- no, rather I think that 
it's a matter that she hadn't planned out the ending fully in her mind. 
Thus, she could not have included examples earlier. Or that she didn't think 
of all the sub-plots out in her mind to fluidly resolve them all. This is 
where she could have really used her fans- they had extensively put together 
lists of plots and subplots that needed to be resolved for the series to be 
complete, and I really think that if she had read them, and reread her 
series, that the ending would have flowed a lot more better.

For Pete's sake, "extra stuff" is not whole chapters on another character- 
often it's just one line different here, another line different there, and 
maybe an extra paragraph. She knew that the fans were fanatics about detail, 
it's just a shame that at this point in the series, that she wasn't as well. 
I just don't get the purposeful imagining that goes on in the minds of some 
readers to explain away what Rowling didn't write (that Ron meditated on 
Harry's Parceltongue words four months earlier? HUH??? Ron had no interest 
to learn Parceltongue, that evil language of the Slytherin's that was 
explained to be not a very common gift, nor a good sign to everyone around 
them, and so suddenly Ron is supposed to admire this gift enough to want to 
try and replicate it? Not buying it....) I just think that some fans are so 
in love with Rowling that they will explain away any flaw she has in her 
writing, rather than just admit that they are there. I love the woman and 
her writing, but the flaws just drive me nuts.

Shelley