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Anyone else love the book but hate the epiloge?
I think the epilogue is fantastic. The world of Harry Potter belongs to JK Rowling and it should be from her imagination that we learn the future of our favourite hogwarts characters ,not the from our own mediocre minds.A true fan could not find fault with the best books ever written.
Anonymous User about 1 year ago
Just my view.
xo me
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this is the only intelligent response out of five pages
Facebook User about 1 year agoother than my own of course.
ironically all bad reviews from grown up people
about a childrens book haha..they all suck.
harrys word is better than theirs...losers!!!
Although the book was great, an ultimate adventure, the epilogue was like reading a fairy tale! Just marriages and children! I rated the book with 4 1/2 stars, and the only half which is missing is because of the epilogue!
Anonymous User about 1 year agoI'll start by saying I am a huge harry potter fan. Never mind children emotionally investing in this, I certainly did!! I love the main characters and everything Jo did with them. I'd say my least favourite book was the last one, for a couple of reasons.
All the wondering about camping in the countryside got a little tedious. Also the main twists and shocks such as Snape being good, Snape loving Lilly etc.... well I'd read all those ideas on IMDB anyway so nothing really came as a shock. The only thing that really hit me was Dobby's death, and it's just gutting that the films won't be able to capture the raw emotion on the scene where Harry buries him, since Dobby has not had a chance to grow into the much loved character he is in the books...
Sami about 1 year agooops I forgot to comment on the epilogue. Well it was nice to find out what happened to them afterwards, and as people have pointed out, this is a children's series so it was always going to have the happy ever after element. Although I don't think that with the loss of Remus, Tonks, whichever twin it was, Hedwig, Dobby, Mad Eye, Dumbledore, Snape etc , anyone can call it a HAPPY ending... Ok so it was a bit brief and I wanted to know more about what happened to the other characters, but I think it needed to be there.
Sami about 1 year agoJust a shame that she would sink to that level. The fact that she hadn't in the past was an indication of how good a writer she was.
Jeff Sandberg about 1 year agoIt means theres must be another book!! not to be with the seven but like a new charcter and later on but refers to harry etc ... 'she hopes interminably
Lucy about 1 year agoI thought the epilogue was... aside from being kinda mushy, it didn't say enough.
Paul Pearson about 1 year agoNow, if you look up interviews with JKR done after this book was published, she talks about how the epilogue that appears in the book is far less detailed than the one she originally wrote. That one is more like what we all wanted, where she details what happened to all the characters in the years afterwards. A lot of those details are mentioned in those interviews, like where everyone ended up working, and stuff like that.
The epilogue didn't work for me either. I can fight the urge to cry out loud "I wanted every detail, each character's profession and their kids' names and who was the new minister and the new heads of each mom department" etc etc. I didn't want the book to end without an epilogue at all either. I wanted a narrative at the end, where we would be informed about the most important events of the first voldemort free period; a description of how the world changed into something better; how the last death eaters were captured, how captured muggle-borns were freed. I wanted to see for myself how seven years (and more) of troubles with Voldemort ended with "mundane finallity" if you know what I mean.
Tatiana about 1 year agoAbsolutely! I thought the epilogue served a single purpose and that was to finish definitively the Harry Potter sequence of stories. It was an epilogue written for the publishing house not for the readers.
Facebook User about 1 year agoah no i thought it was great! A bit cheesy, with all the children going to Hogwarts destined to be 'the best of friends' but the only satisfactory way for it to end for me. I always feel like books cut off too suddenly and I was just thinking at the end, 'I wish I could find out how they all turned out', and then i did! It's the only way we can know that Harry and co' had happy lives after all the turmoil they went through. If you think it's stupid then you can't be a TRUE Harry Potter fan, the books are filled with plenty of cheese anyway and I love it! =D
Facebook User about 1 year agothere didnt seem much point to it, as if it had been written just to stop obvious questions from fans later on about 'what did harry do next?' also to prove that she wasnt planning on carrying on with th story.
I did like the fact the u got closure on a few of the on going sub-plots like ron & hermione & harry & ginny but its a little too sweet n easy for me...
Facebook User about 1 year agoIt just seems really corny and a tad stupid. And...not needed!
Mark about 1 year agoall the way through the book, there was only one hint that ron and hermione would get together, although everyone already guessed, but that alone was only because ron tried to protect the house elves, i think that if she was going to add something like that, she should have written another book set 19 years later, actually explaining how and why they got married. i think the whole epilogue was a bit pointless and i was a bit disappointed with the ending, all was well... what type of ending is that?
Suzanne about 1 year agoi just wish she would have given a whole new book for the end of the series epilogue, it was too short.
Facebook User about 1 year agoME. hated the epilogue, what a bunch of crap >.<
Anonymous User about 1 year agoThe difference in writing styles between the last chapter of the book and the epilogue was extremely jarring. I didn't mind the content so much (though I would *love* to have seen some of the suggestions posted in this thread instead). Book 7 was extremely dark and extremely serious and it was startling to go from that to the happy, light tone from the first book.
Annissa about 1 year agoI do agree with that...it was a little cheesy. I would have assumed that all that happened anyway :)
Amanda about 1 year agoI can't help but disagree! The epilogue was dreadful, the syle didn't fit with the rest of the book and I found the spelling out of their future lives annoying.
The books are based around Harry's school years and didn't need a chapter at the end to tell us that he lived happily ever after. The final chapter feels tacked on - as if the book was finished and then the publisher said " the guys with the film rights would like a closing scene as they can't possibly have any question left unanswered".
Lesley about 1 year agoi loved the book and then i read the epilogue and i was like wtf.
Facebook User about 1 year agoi mean seriously what kind of name is albus severus?