Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
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Did you like the end?
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Jun 19, 2013 07:01AM
I enjoyed the end although I wish it was still going as I will miss it. I have always wondered what it would be like if there was another series about their children's journey through Hogwarts you know?
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Laura wrote: "Lauren wrote: "I enjoyed the end although I wish it was still going as I will miss it. I have always wondered what it would be like if there was another series about their children's journey throug..." Yes if only... obliviate, obliviate!
I know! Neville a professor, I would never have pictured that. Hahah yes three; James, Lily and good ole Albus Severus :P
Only in the movies. Luna eventually meets Rolf Scamander, grandson of the famous Newt Scamander. Rolf would become her husband and the union would produce twins, Lorcan and Lysander.
Jeni wrote: "Only in the movies. Luna eventually meets Rolf Scamander, grandson of the famous Newt Scamander. Rolf would become her husband and the union would produce twins, Lorcan and Lysander."
Lysander Scamander! What a cute name:)
So that happens only in the movies? ok. there is cold hard proof right there that books are better than movies.
Laura is right. Luna and Neville didn't hook up at all in the books. Neville married Hannah Abbott and became the herbology professor at Hogwart's. They lived upstairs from the Leaky Cauldron, where Hannah was the proprietor.The actor that played Neville, Matthew Lewis, was asked in an interview about what happened with his character and Luna? He replied "That was just a summer thing." (Adorable!)
Here's a really neat source of info about what happened to everyone: http://www.hp-lexicon.org/
They are the only characters I've ever read about where I felt that I could read several more books about them even if it was just their mundane lives. It was heartbreaking to have the series end at all.
I think that for those of us that grew up as the "Harry Potter Generation" (I was born in 1990, so I grew up in the heart of the Harry Potter phenomenon) there will always be the desire to learn mroe about the characters. As somebody that latched on emotionally to Harry Potter and used it as a literary escape from reality, I have always wondered what happened with Harry after he left school. I am curious to know about his children and if they had similar adventures.That being said, I think J.K. Rowling did a phenomenal job of providing the correct amount of detail for the stories to leave us with that unbearable desire for more. She knew when to end the series without adding unecessary details that would have clouded the story.
Personally, I believe that J.K. Rowling made the correct decision by not continuing the Harry Potter series to include tales of his children. As great of a writer as she is, I don't know if the additional information could be kept seperate in the mind of the reader from the originals, and I fear that if there was a different theme or mood in the additional books, they might ruin the originals. I felt that everything that Rowling put into the seven HP books was perfect for that series, and I congratulate her for not breaking under social pressure and keeping the series at 7 books.
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