Oh Jo...
I've never had a big problem with J.K. Rowling. I think she deserves a lot of credit for inspiring a generation of children to read. I also credit her for her deep and elaborate mythology. I wouldn't say she is the next Bard, hardly, but her books are enjoyable and easy to read. I've never really been upset about stuff with characters, and I've
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And while she left things open-ended in the actual book, it's not open-ended in her head, obviously. Some consider her interviews complete canon, others not, so it's not set in stone, you know.
I thought you were going to address how she said that Ron went and helped George with the joke shop as his career, which differs from her saying that he and Harry became fantastic aurors. But I suppose he might has done the auror thing second, and it all still fits. I like it.
Oh, and this is getting to be a long comment, but! I felt okay with Tonks' and Lupin's deaths now, moreso than I did after I got to the part where suddenly they're dead, and I'm all, "WTF happened there?" It seems more real to me, for it to be a bit ambiguous, with the chaos of the battle. Sure, they were huge characters killed off with so little ceremony, but isn't that life? Hmmm.
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As for the Luna bit, if she had Luna getting married in her head, why'd she go and say it was open ended? Because she left so much out of the epilogue, you have to take the interviews as cannon, or else a lot of left blank.
This was something that's been bothering me all day, because I was like "Didn't she just say Luna and Neville...maybe?" To me, it makes no sense to validate a ship, then shoot it down within a 1 week span.
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