The Ending Options

[myohmyitstara]

I thought the ending was good.. but i wish they could've added more to the epilogue though.. at least say where harry and his friends are working. and what happened to the rest of the order and the DA..

i agree..but i also think it would have been a bit to formal to openly just write what happened to the characters..in DH rowling slyly added in bits of information still keeping it as story telling in present time.

[TonksISmyHERO]

I liked the fact that she did the Ending in a story form instead of hears a list of people and this is what happen. However I wish in that story form she would have told us about more people. Also the few people who she did talk about I also wish she had given even more detail. But I guess you can't always get what you want.

[xc coach]

I wanted to hear what happened to the Dursley family. In the end, though, I suppose it doesn't really matter. They weren't that important to Harry.

[Archina]

Wow! I'm excited that she's going to do an encylopaedia!

Much as I adore Harry, not sure I'd buy an Encylopoedia. Seems a bit like "merchandising" or "milking it"...?

I know what you mean Debod, I felt similar about Fantastic Beasts and Quidditch Through the Ages.. but my feeling wasn't so much that she was milking it but rather that I'd be milking it by buying them when there was no need - I had other books to look forward to in the future if I could only wait! However give it a few months and I'll be completely Pottersick and itching to get my hands on any reading material related to the Potter world!

As for the ending, like someone else commented earlier, it was a little abrupt and when I read,

The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well

at the bottom of my page, I turned it fully expecting a little more!

I like that she didn't give us everything and tell us exactly what everyone's doing now, it's good to leave some things to the imagination!

[Debod]

As for the ending, like someone else commented earlier, it was a little abrupt and when I read, at the bottom of my page, I turned it fully expecting a little more!

I like that she didn't give us everything and tell us exactly what everyone's doing now, it's good to leave some things to the imagination!

Yep. Exactly my reaction. The simplicity of that final phrase means you turn the page, and then inevitably go back and read the last few lines again, just to check if you've missed something. It just seems to have more behind it than meets the eye at first...

This post has been edited by Debod: Jul 25 2007, 05:24 AM

[baty4potter]

Much as I adore Harry, not sure I'd buy an Encylopoedia. Seems a bit like "merchandising" or "milking it"...?

I really don't think it's like that. I think JK knew she wouldn't be able to wrap everything up, and therefore decided to put a book out to answer questions that a lot are begging for. She definitely doesn't need the money so, at least in my minds eye, it's not greed, merchandising or milking it. It's for the fans who want to know.

[chris_1988]

Hi guys, long time no post.

My immediate reaction to the ending was that I didn't like it. I thought it was too short, too predictable and too 'happily ever after'. But then when I thought about it, the main inner turmoil of Harry in the whole series has been his search to belong, to be part of a family. And it is nice to know that he eventaully found it. So I am happy for him, and i can see why JK wrote the epilogue, but still I think that she could ahve gone further. I wanted to hear if he'd become and auror, and what happened to Hagrid and the rest of the Weasleys and everyone. But anyway, it is her story and I think she showed in this ending what she thought the story was about...the importance of family. And good on her.

[Nermesa]

Could anyone remind me of the last sentence. I'm not sure, but I think I heard that the last sentence was written before like anything else wasn't it?

[The Bomb]

"The scar had not pained Harry for 19 years. All was well."

[baty4potter]

Could anyone remind me of the last sentence. I'm not sure, but I think I heard that the last sentence was written before like anything else wasn't it?

Have you read the book?

[Debod]

I really don't think it's like that. I think JK knew she wouldn't be able to wrap everything up, and therefore decided to put a book out to answer questions that a lot are begging for. She definitely doesn't need the money so, at least in my minds eye, it's not greed, merchandising or milking it. It's for the fans who want to know.

It's more likely to be the publishers / agents who are trying to "milk it" through this sort of merchandise, trying to convince JK that the fans are crying out for it...

[The Bomb]

It's more likely to be the publishers / agents who are trying to "milk it" through this sort of merchandise, trying to convince JK that the fans are crying out for it...

I'm crying out for it!!!

[baty4potter]

It's more likely to be the publishers / agents who are trying to "milk it" through this sort of merchandise, trying to convince JK that the fans are crying out for it...

I have to say that I believe JK has a mind of her own, and wouldn't do *anything* that she didn't want to do. I feel she is really devoted to her fans, and wants to please them.

I could be all wet, but I think she is doing this for the fans not because her publishers want her to.

[Debod]

I'm crying out for it!!!

I bet loads of people are. But I feel at some point you have to have some sort of artistic integrity? Rather than just keep churning out "products"... The story has its own direction and the characters their own role to play within a framework. I think that part of the joy is re-reading and interpreting for ourselves, rather than having a kind of exegesis imposed on us from the author or the publishers.

[The Bomb]

Think of it this way. The only thing her publishers ever forced her to do was change the name to "Sorcerers Stone," instead of "Philosophers Stone."

She says she still regrets it today, but it was the only way they'd publish it in America.

[chris_1988]

I dont see how this woudl relaly help any merchandising to be honest. It was purely there I think so that JK can let her fans know that her characteres lived on to be happy, and that was obvoiusly important to her. So good on her

[Witherwings]

Think of it this way. The only thing her publishers ever forced her to do was change the name to "Sorcerers Stone," instead of "Philosophers Stone."

She says she still regrets it today, but it was the only way they'd publish it in America.

Well, the reality is that alchemists aren't philosophers. They were the first "chemists" and, as such, were seen as sorcerers.

But I think she wrote the epilogue long before she wrote book seven to be honest.

[chris_1988]

I do wonder though whether the ending may have been a slight cave to the public desire to see harry/ginny and ron/hermione together...probably not, but there was alot of pressure from fans for that to happen

[Witherwings]

I do wonder though whether the ending may have been a slight cave to the public desire to see harry/ginny and ron/hermione together...probably not, but there was alot of pressure from fans for that to happen

I wouldn't be surprised if she reveals that it was nothing of the sort - that she wrote the epilogue before far before (maybe a year or two) before the last book. She told us she had the last sentence of the book for a long time.

[chris_1988]

Yeah, you're probably right, I was jsut speculating. I hope you're right, Maybe it's jsut me venting my frustration that there wasnt more detail in that epilogue, if a jobs worth doing...lol