Harry Potter and Disappointing Epilogue (Spoilers?)

[grinninfoole]

After some thought, I believe I know why I found the epilogue to Harry Potter 7 disappointing.  (Many others have told me that they hated it, too, but no one who's explained their dislike to me feels as I do.)  Nineteen years after defeating Voldemort, Harry (when he would be only a year younger than I am now) and his friends is seeing his two sons

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[morlock]

shes actually gone on record saying that she'll be making a "Wizarding World Encyclopedia" at some point soon... it'll basically be descriptions of past present and future cribbed from all of her various notes (apperently there is a lot of stuff she left out of the final couple books because of space and tempo of the story). there'll be explinations of whats been going on what HAS gone on and other shit

[grinninfoole]

Well, that's OK, I guess. A bit like what Tolkien did with 100 pages of appendices to LOTR, which was interesting. I don't know that Rowling's notes are that interesting, as opposed to how she uses them in telling a story, but we'll see. I'll probably check that out when it appears.

[macropixi]

she's also on record as saying that Ron and Harry do go on to become Aurors (harry's head of the department) and that Ron, Harry and Hermione basically turn the ministry upside down and make it a good place to work in. What it should be. Hermione goes into basically magical law.

[grinninfoole]

Well, that's cool to know, but she couldn't put that in the book? I know she supposedly wrote that epilogue years ago, but given her growth as a storyteller, I'm surprised she let something so thin and unrevealing stand. I wonder if she's going to tell us stories about, I dunno, Ted Lupin or something.

[macropixi]

I'd really like hearing stories about the next generation.

I have to say I think the epilogue was rather sparse as well.