Now that you Read the book?

[bigbear]

What did you think of the ending?

[Jocasta]

As a fan of Severus and follower of The Snape is Good campaign for many years, I'm thrilled!
I knew his love for Lily and his guilt for not saving her was behind his actions... he is, as Harry says, the bravest man... a complete and perfect hero.
I'm happy.

[Eternal_Element]

I almost cried when Fred died. The twins were always my favorites! But Percy came back and kicked a little bootay, so all did end up well. You know, Harry and Ginny ended up together and Ron and Hermione did as well, I thought that Neville and Luna should have hooked up as well. I know it's kind of a stretch, but it kind of makes sense.

[rlm]

Originally Posted by Eternal_Element

I almost cried when Fred died. The twins were always my favorites! But Percy came back and kicked a little bootay, so all did end up well. You know, Harry and Ginny ended up together and Ron and Hermione did as well, I thought that Neville and Luna should have hooked up as well. I know it's kind of a stretch, but it kind of makes sense.

here's something that you might find interesting. this was from an interview jk rowling did. also it seems that there might be more to the interview on the site in the upcoming days or weeks.
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Finished ‘Potter’? Rowling tells what happens next
Exclusive: Author gives details on events after the book’s final epilogue


By Jen Brown
TODAYShow.com contributor
Updated: 6:38 a.m. CT July 26, 2007

Spoiler alert: This story reveals some key plot points in the final Harry Potter book. So if you've haven't finished the book, J.K. Rowling asks that you not read this story.

If you found the epilogue of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” rather vague, then J.K. Rowling achieved her goal.

The author was shooting for “nebulous,” something “poetic.” She wanted the readers to feel as if they were looking at Platform 9¾ through the mist, unable to make out exactly who was there and who was not.

“I do, of course, have that information for you, should you require it,” she told TODAY’s Meredith Vieira rather coyly in her first interview since fans got their hands on the final book.
Ummm … yes, please!



Rowling said her original epilogue was “a lot more detailed,” including the name of every child born to the Weasley clan in the past 19 years. (Victoire, who was snogging Teddy — Lupin and Tonks’ son — is Bill and Fleur’s eldest.)

“But it didn’t work very well as a piece of writing,” Rowling said. “It felt very much that I had crowbarred in every bit of information I could … In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything.”

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.”


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.”

[BoredJen]

My thoughts:

I was with Jacosta in the snape is good movement. I knew all along he was aiding Dumbledore. Well...maybe not knew...but hoped.

The saddest thing in the book was Dobby. NOT NICE!! Totally a teary part for me. A couple other teary parts were Fred, HEDWIG, and Harry giving his son the name Albus Severus.

I have to admit, I was a liiiiiittle dissapointed with the book. Only because I didn't feel like there were any big surprises. I knew since it was the last book their had to be a moment where Harry HAD to die, but that there would be some loop hole where he wouldn't die because JK Rowling just couldn't do that to the fans who are kids. And as I said, I had strong suspicions that Snape was working with Dumbledore.

It was also tough reading the book without Hogwarts appearing until the end. The school semester was a really great outline for all of the previous books and without it some of this one just meandered in some parts.

And that epilogue was just SUPER cheesy. But I was a sucker for that Albus Severus thing.

Though, it's still Harry Potter, it's still a children's book, and I don't think it could have ended any other way.

[rlm]

yeah theres a lot of people who don't like the ending. even some people i know have complained that it was too happy ending and cheesy. and i always remind them that this book started out as just a children's story. for kids. but yes along the way the parents reading to those kids got caught up in it. then the buzz got out and it made others of all ages start reading it. even though the story got dark, all this time it was still a childrens story and that's why it had to end that way. c'mon if dorothy had died at the end of the wizard of oz by the hands of the witch, kids would have just gone nuts.

[MrsLegolasGreenleaf]

I absolutely loved the last book! In fact I love all of the books! I was still crying from when Dumbledore was killed! I was all like "I'm going to kill you Snape!". Now that I find out that he's a "Good" guy I'm all like sorry! Anyway It was well worth the wait! I cried when Hedwig and Dobby both died! Then Lupin and Tonks died and left their new son Teddy! Then Fred died! OMG then Percy came back to help fight voldemort and the death eaters! And so did my absolute favorite Oliver Wood! ~SWOON~