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mickyfinn more specifically, spoilers about the very last bit. the Epilogue. The horrible, no good, very bad epilogue. the epilogue that frankly took a fairly decent book and put some real crap right at the end, just to leave readers with a nasty taste in their mouth.
IMPORTANT. I dont have the desire to attach IMHO to every sentence. Just mentally put it on there your own damn self. This is, in its humble way, an opinion piece. Ergo, everything in this is merely my opinion. Debate is welcome, flaming me because I challenged the worlds of the holy Jay Kay is not.
19 years later. Really, bad decision straight off. I'm offering a prize* for the first person who can come up with a good reason why 19 years later is a well chosen period of time (as contrasted to a nice round number like 20, not as contrasted to my prefered option of setting the epilogue anywhere from a couple of months to 5 years later.
Things we learn in the Epilogue
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mightygodking, writer of one of the best HP 7 reviews/spoilerfests, describes this as the "most blatant fanservice ever". Normally, I'm in complete agreement with this deific ruler, but "everyone is happy, nothing else changes" doesnt quite cut it as most blatant fanservice. The bit of my brain that is a HP fan spent the whole epilogue asking "where are the purges? when do we start rounding up all those who conspired with voldemort, confiscate their property and all their ancestral holdings and throw them into the dankest hole we can find?" I didn't even want to see justice, I wanted to see vengance.
As for the relationships, why not follow the example of nearly every romance novel? Show the happy couple together as a family after the birth of their first child. Perhaps a naming cermony, which would, as an added bonus, allow for the trotting out of every goodie that is still alive, and a whole bunch of gossip/expositon about the on going process of setting the wizzarding world back to rights, preferably with gory details of the drawing and quartering of some of the baddies who did the best job of getting fans up in arms. Why is this such a common option for wrapping up a romance? As a romance goes, it leaves the best of both worlds, the happily ever after is solidly locked in, but the future is open and allows ample space for a future of adventure.
Personally, I'd prefer not to go even that far. this is, after all, a 1/2 breed of a story of magical fantasy with a story of high school. how bout we set the epilogue close enough in the future that we don't have to settle the question of whether the high school sweetheart is the One True Love.
Basically, it failed to show what I would have liked to see; the changes that the victory worked on the wizzarding world, and showed what I didn't really want to see; a vision of a world where the choices made in high school fix the characters fate for the rest of their life.
*Prize: as much cyber-sex as you want**
**none is a perfectly acceptable amount of cybersex. Mind you, I've never done cybersex, or tried to write sex scenes, so theres a moderate chance it'd be amusingly bad.
IMPORTANT. I dont have the desire to attach IMHO to every sentence. Just mentally put it on there your own damn self. This is, in its humble way, an opinion piece. Ergo, everything in this is merely my opinion. Debate is welcome, flaming me because I challenged the worlds of the holy Jay Kay is not.
19 years later. Really, bad decision straight off. I'm offering a prize* for the first person who can come up with a good reason why 19 years later is a well chosen period of time (as contrasted to a nice round number like 20, not as contrasted to my prefered option of setting the epilogue anywhere from a couple of months to 5 years later.
Things we learn in the Epilogue
- And they all lived happily ever after (where all == Harry, Ginny, Ron, Hermione and Draco & happily == married with children)
- Harry is still famous (has his title been changed to The Man Who Lived Twice? cause that would be neat.)
- Teddy Lupin (Remus and Tonks's orphan child) is getting on OK and knocking boots with Bill and Fleur's daughter.
- Neville is professor of herbology.
mightygodking, writer of one of the best HP 7 reviews/spoilerfests, describes this as the "most blatant fanservice ever". Normally, I'm in complete agreement with this deific ruler, but "everyone is happy, nothing else changes" doesnt quite cut it as most blatant fanservice. The bit of my brain that is a HP fan spent the whole epilogue asking "where are the purges? when do we start rounding up all those who conspired with voldemort, confiscate their property and all their ancestral holdings and throw them into the dankest hole we can find?" I didn't even want to see justice, I wanted to see vengance. As for the relationships, why not follow the example of nearly every romance novel? Show the happy couple together as a family after the birth of their first child. Perhaps a naming cermony, which would, as an added bonus, allow for the trotting out of every goodie that is still alive, and a whole bunch of gossip/expositon about the on going process of setting the wizzarding world back to rights, preferably with gory details of the drawing and quartering of some of the baddies who did the best job of getting fans up in arms. Why is this such a common option for wrapping up a romance? As a romance goes, it leaves the best of both worlds, the happily ever after is solidly locked in, but the future is open and allows ample space for a future of adventure.
Personally, I'd prefer not to go even that far. this is, after all, a 1/2 breed of a story of magical fantasy with a story of high school. how bout we set the epilogue close enough in the future that we don't have to settle the question of whether the high school sweetheart is the One True Love.
Basically, it failed to show what I would have liked to see; the changes that the victory worked on the wizzarding world, and showed what I didn't really want to see; a vision of a world where the choices made in high school fix the characters fate for the rest of their life.
*Prize: as much cyber-sex as you want**
**none is a perfectly acceptable amount of cybersex. Mind you, I've never done cybersex, or tried to write sex scenes, so theres a moderate chance it'd be amusingly bad.
