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Anyone else love the book but hate the epiloge?
Overall I think this book is ok. I probably got caught by the excitement of holding the last HP book in my hands and forced myself to think it is a great book. The epilogue is just pathetic and the happy ending is very childish. I understand it's a book for children but we definitely need to teach our kids life is spicy and not that everyone ends marrying the girl they fancied in primary school.
Anonymous User about 1 year ago
I liked the evolution of Dumbledore and Snape's characters, how their loyalty and truthfulness gets easily muddened.
All the same, I'm sad I won't have any more HP books to read now.
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This is one of those cases where the ending should have been left open for the imagination to explore.
Amanda 5 months agoThe epilogue seemed almost completely detached from the book.
Tyler 5 months agoit was really cliche.
i really wanted the last horcrux to be his scar and have harry be a tragic hero and have to kill himself.
the fact that it ended with 'happily ever after' disappointed me like nothing else.
Annette 5 months agoThe epiloge for me was too brief, not enough details and I can't imagine how the movies will give the topic justice. Who knows, they might not even breech the subject.
After all that goes on in the final book, I am hoping to leave the theater,( knowing that this will be the final Harry movie), that I will be satisfied knowing that all is well (finally) in the world of Potter and company but that his children and extended family will have the opportunity for more zaniness in the future. Can you imagine growing up a Harry Potter household? Even though JK she is finished with the HP series, the possibilites are endless (along with reader imagination).
Karla 5 months agoEven if she just skipped the whole epilogue and left us guessing, that would've been better than what we got.
Facebook User 5 months agoIt doesn't seem real, the epilogue I mean. I know the book is fictional but they somehow had a happy ending. I'm not a sadist, but I don't think they'd get married like that, I'm probably biased cause I'd like Draco to get together with Hermione But, I wish she didn't really write the epilogue and left it to our imagination. It was really a great boo but I didn't really like how she made the epilogue, it's kind of like a fairytale ending. they had kids, got married and stuff. `Cause we get it, they got back to their normal lives.
Candice 5 months agolove the book and series, but the epilogue is corny...
Facebook User 5 months agoYes!
Facebook User 5 months agoIt isn't the stupidest things ever. At least if you truly did read the books, most of the epiloge was reasonable. Ron and Hermione have always like each other yet they both didn't know it till it was time. And Harry and Ginny, well, Ginny has always liked Harry, and in the end, Harry liked Ginny in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. But other than that, the other things had to be made up. I just thought it was kind of a funny ending.
Facebook User 4 months agoHad to be done. Otherwise people would have complained that it was "unfinished." It's a fairy tale. Remember that, and the epilogue is just fine.
Andy 4 months agoI agree it had to be done, but I don't think it did the 7 books any good, after all that harry potter had gone through it would be nice to think he led the easy life after that however J.K had never written that kind of "Once upon a time ... and they all lived happily ever after" leaving the epiloge a bit disappointing.
Lily 4 months agoI absolutely loved the books. ALL of them. The best were the first, third, sixth, and seventh.
The seventh book "drags" in the middle and "nothing happens" because it shows the difficulty of their journey/task of finding horcruxes. she shows how they really had NOTHING to go on, and it wasnt a fun little scavenger hunt with direct instructions. its not like "yay we found them all in 3 weeks!" they make attempts to find them, and fail a couple times. it is realistic. not all of their ventures can be successful on the first try, if she stuck to THAT them, THEN the books would be corny. it also shows the stress of the situation, how even the best of friends can have fights, and also how they will return in the end.
But, I dont see the point in Fred dying. Why? Didnt the Weasleys lose enough already? Ginny almost died in the chamber of secrets, arthur almost died in the department of mysteries, bill gets all scarred up and loses his good looks, george loses an ear. I mean, come on! This poor family.
And Lupin and Tonks. What the hell? But I guess if one of them died, the other one would have wanted to anyway... but i always thought that tonks loved lupin more than her own son anyway, and the same with lupin for tonks. JK loved killing off Harry's father figures. His real father, sirius, dumbledore, lupin. almost killed arthur weasley.
I do also agree with the fact that there should have been more of a resolution scene after the battle of hogwarts.
THE EPILOGUE- was terrible. Barely anything happens, names are thrown in without any explanation of who they are or what they do. I definitely think she could have written a better epilogue.
But she even said herself- she really wanted to stress that "All was well" with Harry after everything he'd been through growing up. He was happy, loved, loving, and a good parent.
Kasey Tveit 4 months agoI completely agree that the epilogue felt hasty and did not in any way live up to the ending I thought the series should have had. After an epic 7 book series of increasingly dangerous battles between good and evil - someone already mentioned this - the kids doff their adventure hats and settle in to a quiet life of obscurity, of course all ending up together and having kids? Ew. I don't want to think about any of those kids having kids - it was just too much of a jump for me with no "middle".
I would have liked to see the characters go on to have more adventures, maybe allowing for short stories or spin-off series featuring other characters, maybe not necessarily Harry himself.
I would imagine that after all they went through, they'd want to go out and explore, maybe help clean up a bit? I don't think all the evil in the world was vanquished with Voldemort, do you? What better task for on-the-job trained wizards? There is so much potential in this series to keep those of us who love the world Rowling created interested. Stories about giants! Dragons! Other wizards! What if Ron and Hermione went off on their own? Give us more!! :)
Stephanie Chesky 4 months agoNope. The epilogue floored me. I was happy knowing life had taken on a sense of "normalcy" for everyone. No complaints at all.
John 4 months ago