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Book 7*** SPOILERS INCLUDED***; WARNING***THIS TOPIC CONTAINS SPOILERS
Topic Started: Jul 22 2007, 10:05 AM (1,254 Views)
Hadarac
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YAY!!!! I cant wait, mabye we'll be stisfied with what happens after Harry defeats Voldemort.
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Scarecrow
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Can't wait for the encyclopedia, and yeah I think it was Hermione who destroyed the cup, I want to reread it!! But my sister has it.


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Serena Svit-Kona
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I believe that Hermione did indeed destroy the cup. I wonder what happened to the giants.
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Lady Phoenix
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I completely missed that!!!! Oh well, I'll get there in the CD's!!
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couragesoccer17
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Ok, I just heard that JKR wanted the epilogue to be a bit vague.
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For those who are interested in the details of the interview, I just found this!!! Enjoy!

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.”

I don't know for how long the link will work, but even though, here it is:
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/19959323/
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Hadarac
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WOWWW!!! I think Luna and Neville would make a pretty weird pair...but a good one. I wonder who the new hedmaster is...and what they did before, and if Harry or anyone else knew them before..
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Lady Phoenix
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As I said before, we Harry Potter fans are never satisfied!! !LOL!!! I thought it wasn't fair that Minerva get to be the official Headmistress of the school. After thirty something years of loyal service??????
I was a little pissed by that piece of information!!!
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Serena Svit-Kona
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Maybe she did get to be headmistress after the events of Deathly Hallows, but maybe she decided to retire after a while. I don't know. :$
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Hadarac
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Mabye, but "getting on a bit"??? Whats that supposed to mean?
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Serena Svit-Kona
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It means that she was getting old. If I were her I wouldn't want to be headmistriss for years especially after after everything that happened at the school. I'd help get the school repaired and make sure everything is functioning and that every subject had a teacher. then I'd retire or go on a never ending vacation.
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Lady Phoenix
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I still think she should have been Headmistress for some years!!!

I am so disappointed that we didn't get to see Umbridge get her punishment!!!!! The stupid toad!!!
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Serena Svit-Kona
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Yeah me too. I guess we'll just have to wait for the encyclopedia to know what happened to that halfbred hating power hungry toad looking witch.
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Lady Phoenix
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I am curious to know what happened with Lucious and Narcissa Malfoy. I am assuming Draco made a decent life after the events! He even acknowledged Harry and Ron at Platform 9 3/4! Even though I was terrified that they would not make it out safely from the Room Of Requirements, I couldn't help but crack up when Ron tells Harry that if they died because of Harry going to rescue them, he would kill Harry! It's so Ron!!!
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Serena Svit-Kona
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Oh yeah thats right. Oh what about the part where Draco was pleading with that Death Eater and they saved him again. Ron was like "Thats the second time we've save your life you two faced bastard." sooooooo funny.
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