Epilogue (was Re: Ron and Parseltongue)

[montavilla47]

No: HPFGUIDX 183343

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Lynda Cordova" <sweenlit at ...> wrote:
>
> CJ:
> 
> what we get instead in DH is a long but ultimately pointless
> diversion through the Deathly Hallows plot line -- anything but "plowing
> straight toward the goal", IMHO. Eliminating the Hallows from DH would
> have resulted in a shorter, faster, more-evenly-paced story, freed us
> from long, boring chapters of the Trio wandering around waiting for
> Harry to finally make up his mind to do what we were expecting him to do
> in the first place, and allowed JKR plenty of room to tie up many of the
> dropped plotlines. Oh, and actually allowed for Horcruxes to be
> destroyed *on page*.
> 
> Lynda:
> 
> What we got was exactly what JKR had planned all along. A lot of readers did
> a very good job of convincing themselves what "had to happen" in the last
> book, but not being the writer they were at least partially incorrect.
> Eliminating the hallows from the last book would have left gaping holes in
> the plot because there were clues scattered throughout the earlier books
> that alluded to them indirectly--very indirectly I admit, but that's the way
> Rowling writes. 

Montavilla47:
I'm curious.  What are these clues?  I'm not sure I picked up on them.