Did you like the Deathly Hallows epilogue?

Question

did anyone acctually like it? personally i think it sucked. did JKR even write that? it doesen't seem like her style.

Answer 1

I read an interview of J.K. Rowling and she said that she meant the epilogue to be vague. She had originally written a extremely long one with tons of detail but felt that it was just too much. She is planning to release a sort of encyclopedia of how all the character's lives turned out after the defeat of Voldemort. I wasn't too thrilled with the ending myself but when i got a hold of the information I just mentioned I felt better about it. And Albus Severus, I think J.K. Rowling was just trying to emphasize the importance of the two characters he was named after. And Dumbledore isn't gay. Wherever you people found that information, it's a hoax cuz I don't remember anywhere in the book where it mentioned that. You freaky people.

Answer 2

It seems that most people hated the epilogue, but I liked it. Yet, it was vague and a little cheesy, but did a good job of showing, in the most basic details, that the major characters were now happy adults with families, and able to put the horrible experiences of Voldemort's return behind them. I would have liked a little more detail, at least to find out what kind of jobs they all had in the future, but I was satisfied with just knowing that everyone was alright now and happy. The style was a lot more like that of the first two books, but that didn't really bother me. It was back in the much happier, more innocent tone of those first books, back when the wizarding world was still a brand new place for Harry. But, while few other people I talked to liked the epilogue, I enjoyed it.

Answer 3

I found it frustrating. O.K. so she couldn't cover everything, but I felt that she left out some important details. For example, what jobs do they do? And what happened to the Dursleys? And did they go back and do that year at Hogwarts that they missed, or did they just flunk school? And I'd always hoped that at some point we would hear about Harry's grandparents. Neither set feature in the books at all. It's as if the Potters and the Evans just disappeared. That could have been dealt with with a couple of lines of dialogue in the epilogue. And what about Hermione's parents? Are they still wandering around Australia or did she find them?

Answer 4

Not the first time around, I was expecting a more LOTR style epilogue, where gives us alot of information and is still a story. I heard somewhere that she wrote during the time when she wrote Philosopher's Stone, so that's why the style seems weird. I felt it was...odd. I still do, but know I understand why she did that. She wanted alot to say in her Encyclopedia. The names were dreadful though. Nevermind Albus Severus, HUGO?!?!?!

Answer 5

I liked it. Harry, when we meet him in Chapter 2 of PS/SS has nothing. He is an abused, unwanted child with no family and no one who cares for him at all. one of the themes of the series is Harry coming to have what he never had as a child: security, friends, love, and a family (the Weasleys are his real family in the series--I hope that someone congratulates Arthur and Molly on being the parents of both the bride and groom, when Harry and Ginny marry).

The Epilogue shows Harry as a man who has all he never had. He has friends, a loving wife, children, a stable, happy home--in short after growing up more like Serverus Snape, he now has and his children have, more what his own father had.

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Answer 6

I thought it was brilliant! She included just enough information to keep us talking. Sure Harry's kids names were too predictable and cheesy, but who cares really? And the way she connected the steam to the chapter "King's Cross" was absolutely amazing! Go JKR and Harry Potter!

Answer 7

actually the epilogue was a little cheesy. and in response to that other answer yes dumbledore was intended to be a gay character. JK rowling came out and said so...she was reading a script for the 6th movie and made a comment on it correctly the script by saying dumbledore's character is gay. also, she has had a press conference that was covered internationally. so its real.

Answer 8

by way of fact maximum folk do unlike one in each of those happy finishing. Yeah he suffered lots in his existence in spite of the shown fact that it made him a greater constructive individual. The epilogue in simple terms placed the happiness element over the precise. occasion: greater human beings like "Empire strikes returned" fairly then "return of the Jedi". human beings like coronary heart soreness, and catastrophe. It makes them experience greater constructive approximately there existence. The previous "a minimum of it particularly is no longer happening to me" concept.

Answer 9

i kind of liked the epilogue it did tell what happened some of the characters but it didn't explain much else like who in their right mind would marry Draco malfoy

Answer 10

Of course not, it was the most generic ending I think anybody could ever have come up with.

Also, the poor kid deserves pity for his full name. Albus Severus Potter just makes me wince.