i finished the book yesterday and i thought it was great...but i thought it shouldve been atleast 2 or 3 more chapters. The epilogue was okay i guess, i dont think it was a total waste of my time but ince it was the final book i thought the last chapters would have a little more to it. Any one else think so? just asking for opinions.:)
2007-07-26 09:24:11 · 13 answers · asked by CJ W 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
yes, i was a little disspointed...ive spent so many time readin fanfic...and some of the stuff in the fanfic really do happen in the book...except for the way they happened, etc. so i felt like i was reading a fanfic...it's not my favorite, but i still loved it! i enjoyed reading it very much...i was disspointed mostly on the epilogue...and before the book came out barnes and noble, mugglenet, etc. all sadi there would be 784 pages, but there are only 759, so i was disspointed too because i thought that i couldve enjoyed another 20 pages or so, which is about one or two chapters...there were some questions that i had that weren't answered...for example, the book never mentioned if harry did become an auror (he always thought and wanted to become an auror)...but it was still a great book. i think it wasnt a waste of time either...and the wait was worth it...
2007-07-26 09:37:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The 7th Harry Potter book could technically have ended before the epilogue. It would have left so much to the imagination. However, since the epilogue was included, it could have provided information on what careers were chosen by Ron, Hermione and Harry. Overall though, the book was brilliant and wrapped up a lot of unanswered questions.
2007-07-26 09:30:24 · answer #2 · answered by Darke Angel 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Personally, I thought it ended wonderfully.
I have read many complaints from people who wanted to know more of what happened afterwards (who was teaching what at Hogwarts, what jobs the main characters had, etc), however I do not want to be told this information. I have so many ideas in my imagination about where these characters would end up twenty years in the future that I like not knowing. I get to keep my images of Harry's future, which I think is pretty cool.
It wasn't my absolute favorite from the series (Prisoner of Azkaban still holds that position) but I really loved the way it turned out.
2007-07-26 09:29:24 · answer #3 · answered by Obi_San 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
how could you have possibly been disappointed? every page kept me craving for more! however, i do see your point. as the final book in the series, and one of the most anticipated works of literature since who knows what, the end could have been a little more substantial. i think there probably could have been one more chapter in between the epilogue and the end, just to tie things off better. but i was in no way disappointed with it.
2007-07-26 09:35:06 · answer #4 · answered by aLittleLost 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I heard mixed reviews about the book, i usually wait 3 or 4 days before buying the harry potter books, so i decided i would buy it. So i went into tescos and lifted the book, but i decided if it was that bad, then i would read the last page, and thats what i did.
2007-07-26 09:34:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I read this today. I think she should have just written this in the back:
But now that the seventh and final novel is in the hands of her adoring public, Rowling no longer has to hold back any information about Harry Potter from her fans. And when 14 fans crowded around her in Edinburgh Castle in Scotland earlier this week as part of TODAY’s interview, Rowling was more than willing to share her thoughts about what Harry and his friends are up to now.
Harry, Ron and Hermione
We know that Harry marries Ginny and has three kids, essentially, as Rowling explains, creating the family and the peace and calm he never had as a child.
As for his occupation, Harry, along with Ron, is working at the Auror Department at the Ministry of Magic. After all these years, Harry is now the department head.
“Harry and Ron utterly revolutionized the Auror Department,” Rowling said. “They are now the experts. It doesn’t matter how old they are or what else they’ve done.”
Meanwhile, Hermione, Ron’s wife, is “pretty high up” in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, despite laughing at the idea of becoming a lawyer in “Deathly Hallows.”
“I would imagine that her brainpower and her knowledge of how the Dark Arts operate would really give her a sound grounding,” Rowling said.
Harry, Ron and Hermione don’t join the same Ministry of Magic they had been at odds with for years; they revolutionize it and the ministry evolves into a “really good place to be.”
“They made a new world,” Rowling said.
The wizarding naturalist
Luna Lovegood, the eccentric Ravenclaw who was fascinated with Crumple-Horned Snorkacks and Umgubular Slashkilters, continues to march to the beat of her own drum.
“I think that Luna is now traveling the world looking for various mad creatures,” Rowling said. “She’s a naturalist, whatever the wizarding equivalent of that is.”
Luna comes to see the truth about her father, eventually acknowledging there are some creatures that don’t exist.
“But I do think that she’s so open-minded and just an incredible person that she probably would be uncovering things that no one’s ever seen before,” Rowling said.
Luna and Neville Longbottom?
It’s possible Luna has also found love with another member of the D.A.
When she was first asked about the possibility of Luna hooking up with Neville Longbottom several years ago, Rowling’s response was “Definitely not.” But as time passed and she watched her characters mature, Rowling started to “feel a bit of a pull” between the unlikely pair.
Ultimately, Rowling left the question of their relationship open at the end of the book because doing otherwise “felt too neat.”
Mr. and Mrs. Longbottom: “The damage is done.”
There is no chance, however, that Neville’s parents, who were tortured into madness by Bellatrix Lestrange, ever left St. Mungo’s Hospital for Magical Maladies.
“I know people really wanted some hope for that, and I can quite see why because, in a way, what happens to Neville’s parents is even worse than what happened to Harry’s parents,” Rowling said. “The damage that is done, in some cases with very dark magic, is done permanently.”
Photos by Andrew Kandel for TODAYshow.com
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Rowling said Neville finds happiness in his grandmother’s acceptance of him as a gifted wizard and as the new herbology professor at Hogwarts.
The fate of Hogwarts
Nineteen years after the Battle of Hogwarts, the school for witchcraft and wizardry is led by an entirely new headmaster (“McGonagall was really getting on a bit”) as well as a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. That position is now as safe as the other teaching posts at Hogwarts, since Voldemort’s death broke the jinx that kept a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor from remaining for more than a year.
While Rowling didn’t clarify whether Harry, Ron and Hermione ever return to school to finish their seventh year, she did say she could see Harry popping up every now and again to give the “odd talk” on Defense Against the Dark Arts.
More details to come?
Rowling said she may eventually reveal more details in a Harry Potter encyclopedia, but even then, it will never be enough to satisfy the most ardent of her fans.
“I’m dealing with a level of obsession in some of my fans that will not rest until they know the middle names of Harry’s great-great-grandparents,” she said. Not that she’s discouraging the Potter devotion!
“I love it,” she said. “I’m all for that.”
2007-07-26 09:30:24 · answer #6 · answered by Marge Simpson 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Actually, I was the complete opposite with the ending! =)
Although she could of included some more in the epilogue, like what their jobs were, and stuff like that. But other then that, I loved it =)
2007-07-26 09:30:53 · answer #7 · answered by Miss New Jersey =] 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sort of. I feel that way, but about the epilouge! What are all the other characters up to? What are the trio's jobs, plus their new ally, Ginny? Poor George, is he still willing to run the joke shop with half of him missing?
2007-07-26 09:29:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I thought that she paid too much attention to their travels...it was getting tiresome! I personally think there shouldn't have been as much attention paid to the wedding either.
2007-07-26 09:30:27 · answer #9 · answered by Fedup Veteran 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, I loved every page! everything was solved that I cared about and I knew what happened to everyone after the end of the story.
2007-07-26 09:28:23 · answer #10 · answered by wendy_da_goodlil_witch 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋