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After everything they'd been through, they deserved to have a good life with their own families.
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And as always, I agree with you on the Epiloge. Like I said before I get the idea of giving everyone a happy ending, but while the core four having familes and kids is a good thing in general sense of that word, the series also revolved around many other important (and in fact much more important than romance) things, such as muggle born wizards struggling with prejudices against them, the Ministry being often corrupted, etc. And all those things imo had to be resolved in the end of the last book and were more important than the number of and names of main characters' kids. Quote:
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Did the Wizarding world change after the first War? No. Did our world changed after Hitler died? No. Waiting from Jo to resolve something like this, is a little too much. People don't change in one day or 20 years or a century and Jo of course knew that. They don't change because good people are in power instead of bad. Corruption, discrimination, racism, injustice is and always will be a part of human society. Jo picked a symbolic day to end her series. It wasn't about giving answers. And lastly, every good book leaves you with more questions than answers. Last edited by geoizz545; 04-13-2012 at 07:15 AM |
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And I think what Mary meant was that since it was the last book, some sort of ending is expected. Some issues have to be resolved but not entirely everything of course. I still am happy we got confirmation of how many children, the names, etc BUT I just wished I had more answers than questions because my imaginations always run wild. __________________
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I didn't mean that something would change in one day, but I expected more information to be given on the wizarding world and how it changed after the war because some changes obviously accured just like when it comes to our world after the World War. And obviously all the characters who's lives we followed for 10 years chose their paths in life as they entered the adulthood and that imo was something that should have been told about. I followed Hermione's story to get to know what kind of job she chooses or what kind of decision she makes regarding her life and obviously I would have been equally happy with her becoming a successful professional or being a happy houswife but I wanted to KNOW what she chose because without knowing it folliwing her journey for 7 books seemed a little pointless. I wnated to know HOW Harry got past his psychological trauma he had to endure because it was not only still there but was worse than ever especially after he lose so many people and obviously blamed himself for their deaths since we know he had such tendency. I know that eventually he recovered but I wanted to know HOW. How Ron managed to deal with his brother's death, how George's life went after Fred's death. "All was well" doens't do it for me shrug: Show vs. tell. And JKR only told us, but didn't show when it comes to the Epiloge.
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And considering there was 19 years to work with, there's no excuse to not have at least be a little bit of an idea of what the general state of the world was in after the war. "All was well" does nothing for me either. What exactly is "all" and how was it well? I don't know, the epilogue didn't say a damn thing. The whole being left wanting more thing is fine I think if the questions left unanswered are more trivial. I'd love to know how Ron proposed to Hermione, or if she proposed to him. But the romance wasn't the main theme of the series so if I don't get an answer to that, that's fine. I have no problem being left to imagine that on my own. But I feel like it was gaping holes of important information that were missing when those things should've been wrapped up, like a final is supposed to do. Unless of course JKR was planning an open ending all along, but I don't think she was if she even included an epilogue at all. I also feel like there wouldn't have been so many post-DH interviews, not just giving new information but also expanding on the epilogue, if JKR did a sufficient job of wrapping up the series. It's not that the information about who married who and how many kids they had was unimportant but it's not the basis of the series either, and certainly not all that defined the characters. They had unique personalities and individual ambitions and we learned nothing of what came of that, not even for Harry either. It's like the LOST finale all over again (though that came after HP but that's besides the point), where it was a show built on its mythology and mysteries but everything it developed was suddenly dropped in one episode. No questions were answered except for who ended up with who after all the characters eventually died because apparently 6 seasons of storytelling didn't matter when "all was well" in the afterlife.
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