This death hit me the hardest. Even more than Fred, but I think that was the way Fred' death happened. If there had been other, closer family there, it would have been harder.
I don't get why people are hating on the epilogue so much. Well, other than the fact that those poor kids have badfic names. ... Even with the deaths and such, Harry Potter is still ultimately a KIDS BOOK. Of COURSE it's going to have a happy ending! And the pairings in the epilogue were nothing unexpected. More to the point, no one had a mullet, and NO ONE WAS AN ASTRONAUT. :p
See, that's just it. She allowed her writing to "mature" as the kids did and so by this time, there should have been a deeper happy ending then Harry married Ginny, Ron married Hermione, Draco wasn't quite the twit they all thought him, & so on. The more I think about it, the more I'm really annoyed that there wasn't a memorial for all those who died in the line of fire, so to speak. I think that would have been a more appropriate way of saying, "We will move on, but we will never forget." I understand the epilogue as it was showed that not only were those who had fallen not forgotten, but the next generation was being taught that old prejudices were unnecessary in the new, Voldemorte free, world. I just don't like the way she did it.
I may be just the slightest bit obsessed with that epilogue now.
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branchandroot
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Date: 2007-07-22 07:51 pm (UTC)As did I - Many times. HURRAH MOLLY!!!!
This death hit me the hardest. Even more than Fred, but I think that was the way Fred' death happened. If there had been other, closer family there, it would have been harder.
See, that's just it. She allowed her writing to "mature" as the kids did and so by this time, there should have been a deeper happy ending then Harry married Ginny, Ron married Hermione, Draco wasn't quite the twit they all thought him, & so on. The more I think about it, the more I'm really annoyed that there wasn't a memorial for all those who died in the line of fire, so to speak. I think that would have been a more appropriate way of saying, "We will move on, but we will never forget." I understand the epilogue as it was showed that not only were those who had fallen not forgotten, but the next generation was being taught that old prejudices were unnecessary in the new, Voldemorte free, world. I just don't like the way she did it.
I may be just the slightest bit obsessed with that epilogue now.