i personally could hav done without it although i am glad that all those delusional harry/hermione shippers will finally b silenced
2007-07-29 02:52:36 · 17 answers · asked by roniloveu15 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I'm actually half-and-half about it. Personally, I would have wanted Harry to die a heroic death. But how to end the book with that scenario, I haven't got a clue. Also for the sake of my 2 kids, I was glad she included that part, however cheesy I personally find it.
I guess JKR simply satisfied her younger readers (especially the kids) with some answers to the most expected questions. Just imagine the barrage of questions if there was no epilogue at all!!! I mean, there was the epilogue yet people were clamoring for answers to things she didn't mention! Those anti-HP people would have had a field day insulting us!
I agree with you on the shippers, though.
2007-08-04 02:34:36 · answer #1 · answered by zachmir 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought that since JKR decided to fast forward the story 19 years later, the least she could have done was put in a lot more details about the three main characters and the rest. I have no idea what Harry, Ron, and Herminone do for a living.
And NO, I shouldn't have to nor do I want to seek other sources (for example, interviews being done by JKR), to find out the answers to those questions and many others that should have been answered in the book.
After so much time and money invested in the HP series, I just think JKR owed her fans a more complete final book.
2007-08-01 20:41:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought it a little pat and a bit sappy, but as for the Harry/Hermione 'shippers, I would guess that they'll start writing fanfictions about how each cheats on his/her spouse and they still end up having a relationship. I had no idea how vehement some of them really are! Personally I don't see it. I thought the parallelism in the epilogue appropriate in most places, and while it didn't tell what happened to everyone, it was a satisfactory overview, a dream come true for Harry, whose childhood is mirrored but improved in the next generation.
2007-07-29 03:03:43 · answer #3 · answered by Black Dog 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hey, I like Harry/Hermione, and I kept hoping for it up until the middle of the seventh book. I could have done without as well...it didn't really answer any burning questions I had, and I didn't see anything I would have liked to have (a simple domestic scene, maybe what Harry ended up doing for a job), but it was a nice way to say "goodbye". I'd have liked to see Luna Lovegood, though. Can't you imagine the send off she'd give her kids?
2007-07-29 04:21:14 · answer #4 · answered by mury902 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I thought it was really poor. It was so cheesy. Why on earth did Ron call his son Hugo?!? To be honest I think everyone assumed that Harry would marry Ginny and have an ordinary life so I don't think it needed to be included. I'd rather JK Rowling just posted info about the characters on her website or even wrote a short book about it.
2007-08-06 00:30:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I hated it. It was crap and really cheesy. Might as well've said : " a million years later everyone gets married has kids and is normal again. Nothing ever happend. The end."
But , of course , if she hadn't have written that lots of people would be carrying on Hermoine and Harry and saying that Harry ends up being headmaster and stuff.
2007-08-05 14:01:25 · answer #6 · answered by Jenna 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ending could have been better. In the climax Ron and Hermione didn't have much part . In the epilogue all 3 have normal lives, it would have been better if we know how all the main characters ended up.
2007-08-05 17:25:41 · answer #7 · answered by jyotika 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think she needed to show that Voldemort Wasn't ever coming back, that Harry would finally have the kind of family he desired as a child, that he could be the kind of godfather that Sirius could not be, and that Ron and Hermione would finally get over their "denial".
In that effort, she succeeded. It wasn't much to advance the story, but it didn't need to advance the story...
As far as their growing up into "ordinary" lives, I'm afraid that's what Harry would have wanted more than anything. Events as gigantic as a war between good and evil can't happen over and over, or they loose their dramatic punch.
Even Neil Armstrong only landed on the moon One time. Is his life "ordinary"??
2007-07-29 02:59:07 · answer #8 · answered by chocolahoma 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I thought it could of def. been better, but i absolutley LOVED the book! It is my favorite. The dumbeldore dream dragged on a bit but it was an amazing book! It does however, leave an opening for another book, with all of the kids and everything which I hope J.K Rowling decides to do!
2007-07-29 03:07:01 · answer #9 · answered by Krissy S 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I thought it was cute in a fanfiction-ish kind of way. It wasn't really nessicary (another chapter after the battle would have been nice.) The book itself felt a little bit unfinished.
sarahbella - It says that Teddy was there to "see off" Bill and Fleur's daughter, Victoire. He wasn't there to get the train.
2007-07-29 03:45:04 · answer #10 · answered by Mr. Thorax 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋