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

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 183356

> CJ (Now):
> I will admit to being incorrect about what "had to happen" in the last
> book. But when the major plot line of HBP consists of Dumbledore
> tracking down horcruxes, all but getting himself killed in the process;
> when the destruction of the horcruxes is absolutely essential to
> defeating Voldemort; and when DD specifically commits that task to Harry
> before dying, I think I can be forgiven for thinking that's what we were
> going to get in book seven. Instead, after spending an *entire book*
> setting up the horcrux plot line, she shunts it aside for a new plot
> line that ultimately goes nowhere. I strongly suspect -- though of
> course I cannot prove -- that if there had been no DH plot line, nary a
> soul would have noticed those "gaping holes".

Shelley now:
CJ, I'm in agreement with you there.  The DH are something new, like she set 
up that pattern that she had to have a new mystery to solve each book, and 
so she had to invent one for this last book, but I seriously think that if 
she had just broke that model, and merely dealt with resolving all the 
Horcruxes, that no one would have noticed anything "missing" from the last 
book. Instead, we might have gotten a full resolution on all the plot 
elements that we did love- like finding out more about Snape so that his 
death didn't seem like such a waste of print, or letting us know what else 
was going on in the Wizarding world during those long camping sessions. I 
really thought the last book would be about the Horcruxes, too, and it's 
almost like they are resolved in afterthought or by mistake- a bit too 
disappointing compared to the story I hoped I would be getting.