If you were to continue writing Harry Potter...?

Question

If you were to take up JK's mantle and carry on with Harry Potter where would you take the story? Would you start it from him being 17 still or would you continue from where she left off at 19 years later?

Answer 1

I would start it from being seventeen, by writing nineteen years ago upon the end of book seven and explain how harry and ginny have children how ron and hermione get together, how they cope with freds loss and then write present day (in the year of 2005 that is at the end of book seven) and carry on from there how harrys job is how hermione and ron visit and james,albus,lily and rosie go to school and little scorpius, there would have to be a new villian seeing as voldemorte is dead perhaps a death eater that thinks he has more power than he who must not be named.... id have real fun doing it! Or perhaps have Jk Rowling to write it with my help - it would be an experience.

Answer 2

Hasn't enough sh1t happened to him already?

I can't imagine that there would really be anymore original storylines for him to follow. Unless Tom Riddle/Voldemort had a son that we didn't know about who was bigger and badder and Harry's sons became a crime-fighting Hogwarts team to bring him down. But I think it's best left alone now.

Or you could change the genre of the stories altogether and perhaps do a RomCom where Hermione goes and has an affair behind Ron's back with Draco Malfoy, Harry's secretary keeps slipping him a bit of love potion and Neville gets it on with Professor McGonagall.

Although I would like to find out what really does lie behind that locked door in the Ministry...

Answer 3

I would leave it at 19 years later and have 1 or all of the children, probably Albus Severus being kidnapped by an irate death-eater, intent on avenging Voldermort's death. After all, not all off the remaining Death-eaters, might be locked up. And Harry, Hermione, Ron and Ginny will go on the hunt, just like old times. And it would also include all of the other surviving characters in one way or another.

Answer 4

From 17 but still have the same relationships as in 19 years later.

Answer 5

Truly, Harry Potter is JK Rowling's books ghostwriter.

Answer 6

19 years later is better i think, but this time the story does not revolve around Harry but Albus Severus and his extraordinary skills in magic. With a name like Albus Severus man would he be smart, maybe write about their life in Hogwarts after the Harry Potter days, bad guy would definatley be son or even daughter of a ex death eater!!!Women as the villian would be gr8!!!

Answer 7

Difficult one this. I was rather thinking that the children of Harry and Hermione etc. would take up the story and then Harry etc. would become involved much like Sirius had done etc. It doesn't have the same ring to it tho. I don't know its a difficult one. I do feel though that she has left the door open ...

Answer 8

Well, if I were to write about Harry, I'd carry on from when he was 17, but I would actually prefer to write a Marauder era story. (Lily, James, Sirius, Remus, Peter, etc)

That or I'd write one book that skips around a bit. A little from 17...a little from 18...Mainly the important events of Harry's life

Answer 9

That last chapter was appalling. It did nothing for the story at all. I'd carry on from where the previous chapter left off and end with Harry being the Headmaster at Hogwarts about 20 years down the line.

Answer 10

I'd pick it up in 2016. Albus Severus is sorted into Slytherin -- because he chooses it. He "borrows" dad's Invisibility Cloak, uses a finding spell to locate the Resurrection Stone, disarms dad then digs up the Elder Wand. Using the Resurrection Stone, he can call up Grindelwald or any other Dark Wizard (except Voldemort whose spook is too fragmented to be coherent), to learn the secrets of the Dark Arts. He becomes the next generation's dark wizard.