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[ex_proverb]

Has anyone heard of there being any reaction from JKR to the reader reaction to the book? Specifically the crapilogue epilogue.

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[fueschgast]

I haven't, sorry, can't help you.

I've read good and bad reactions to the epilogue. Personally I liked it (though I would have like more info). I wonder what excactly makes people hate it. Someone tell me, please.

PS: your icon :o(((

[sari_malfoy]

This was also discussed in Dramione, and here was/is my answer

[fueschgast]

Oh right, now that you say it, I remember Jo saying that about finding out the fate of the survivors! Yeah, I wish we could have put more info in the epilogue. I guess Jo couldn't really fit it in there or decided to save it for the encyclopedia.

[alwayscherish]

I agree with the fact that the plot is just to dark for such a sweet and bright, everything-is-going-perfect, life-is-sweet epilogue. However, in my mind I know that if Harry survived then it was going to end just like that. The epilogue did seem just thrown in there though, and could have used a little more tying in.

But like you said. Humans make the same mistakes over and over again. And I don’t know if she put that in there to make us aware of it or if she just didn’t realize what she had done.

A question for you though. Were you saying that Jo crossed a line with Greyback’s lines and the fate of Ariana?

[estellasharina]

Initially, I *hated* the epilogue, but then I figured "hey, why don't I read it again?"
So I did, and guess what? It's not as bad as it first seemed. Sure, I still don't *like* it, but it's....I dunno....'tis difficult to explain. :p

Still loathe the "All was well", though. I've never read a line as crappy as that one.
As far as I'm concerned, HP and the Deathly Hallows ended with the final word in the last chapter (not counting the epilogue).

[butterfly_kate]

I liked the epilogue in that it showed that Harry got what he had wanted in PS: a family.

I completely get why people don't like it though.

Also, does no one read a slight sense of foreboding into the last sentence? I really get the feeling that whilst Voldemort isn't back, 'all was well' is a calm before the storm. As previously pointed out, evil is never eradicated.

[iko]

Not only did he get a family, but he lives essentially a "normal" life (well, for a wizard). Again, something that he wanted.

I love that it is vague. At first I was like, "TELL ME MORE!" but then someone commented that it will now allow us to fill in the rest of the story. I like that. A lot.

[lynsangelic1]

I dislike the epilogue because it reads like bad fanfic. 'La la la, everything's wonderful, everyone is deliriously happy, nothing bad will EVER happen again la la la

[i_like_neon_ice]

I think I don't like the epilogue because if someone asked me to write the last couple lines of the book and incorporate the word "scar" into them, I would have come up with those same lines. *sigh* I felt like it was unoriginal. Uninspiring. and I just expected... more... after 9 years. Besides, listing off the children's names kind of bugged me. And I didn't like how she kept calling them "Harry, Ginny, Ron, and Hermione" instead of calling them "mother" or "father" (though she did use Father at one point when Albus clutched Harry). I feel like she didn't try to show how they changed at all. Like the person above me said, it sticks out compared to the rest of her writing.

I would much rather have preferred a more emotional scene between two or three of the characters, at least. Not just lists of the progeny and a few lines of bantering dialogue.