any spoilers, do not read any further in this entry!
I get Google alerts about Harry Potter, because I wanted to find out how the
story ended, if it would be worth my while to read etc. Turns out, it is.
But apparently some people on the net are mourning the end of the series as
if they lost a good friend.
I fail to understand this! Sure, it's a bit sad to see a series end, which
means no more is coming from the author on this particular series - for now.
But it's happened before, writers have declared they were ending a series,
only to pick it up again because of the huge demand for it. L. Frank Baum is
one example. I forget how many Oz books he wrote and called it quits, but
had to continue because the public was clammering for more.
So that might still be the case here, but even if it isn't, and J. K.
Rowling remains firm about not writing another Harry Potter book, she ended
it perfectly, on a wonderful and touching note! I've known TV series that
ended very badly, so badly that they beg for a rewrite.
But not Harry Potter.
Harry is not dead. Nineteen years after Baldingwarts - I mean, Voldemort's
demise, Harry and Ginny are married and have a family of wizards going to
Hogwarts, Ron and Hermione, same there.
I've always liked Ginny and am really pleased that Rowling put Ginny and
Harry together, and Ron and Hermione as well. It nicely cancels out all the
trashy shipper, Mary Sue, slash and other crap fanfiction on the net. I
never could stand the Severus Snape&Draco Malfoy-obsessed Mary Sues, the
Hary/Hermione shipping etc. (Shipping is a major trend if not one of the
only reasons people write fanfiction, it's pairing off characters in a
romantic relationship.)
It was satisfying to find out that Severus Snape was in the end, on Harry
Potter's side, though he made a concerted and very believable effort to make
him and me throughout the series, think otherwise. A very nice touch! One of
Harry's sons has the name Albus Severus, my eyes got a little misty when I
read that, what a wonderful way for Harry to honor both Snape and
Dumbledore!
So, it is very sad that people died, though I'm not sorry any of Voldemort's
followers and Voldy himself died, I'm glad for that - good riddance to bad
rubbish!
The death that impacted me the most was Cedric Diggory's in the fourth book.
I hadn't read all of the other books after that, but only in part.
Another death that really has impacted me was that of the Muggle studies
professor, Charity Burbage, fed to Voldemort's disgusting snake, Nagini.
Scrimgeour the new head of the Ministry of Magic, and anyone else who was
tortured by Voldemort or by part of his depraved contingent.
As for Voldy's pet snake Nagini, she got killed by Neville Longbottom, who
had to defend himself from getting tortured and cursed by Voldemort.
I call that poetic justice! Harry lost his beloved owl in an attack by
Voldimort and his gang of thugs, so it was only fitting, right, and somehow
quite hilarious that Voldemort lost his snake. Voldy was furious enough to
lose his annoying composure and scream with fury! Roflol! I detested that
snake anyway, since it was a man-eater. Charity Burbage was just one of who
knows how many, really, that Voldemort fed to that animal. I have a very
strong aversion to animals that eat people, in real life or fiction, it
makes no difference.
I had my own quiet little celebration in my imagination, whooping it up,
dancing on Voldemort's grave, as much as one can do that in a daydream,
laughing and enjoying the satisfaction and hilarity of knowing that
sadistic, long-winded fool screwed himself over and croaked!
I had been afraid that one of Harry's closest friends, or maybe more than
one would not make it, and by closest friends, I mean Hermione, ron, Ginny,
and even Neville, who I always liked.
All survived and doing well.
So people, you haven't lost a friend unless you mean someone who died
somewhere along the way in the series.
Harry Potter and his friends are doing well nineteen years after Voldemort's
downfall and demise, and if that upsets people because they were into
Potter-shipping, slash and other crappy forms of fanfiction, then that's
just too bad, you'll live! I'm glad J. K Rowling tied the series up nicely
to cancel out the garbage that passes for fanfiction out there and hopefully
destroyed the heart to write any more Mary Sue and other silly pairing off
of characters.
Those who are simply mourning that there will be no more books, just be glad
for the way it ended and that the four main characters survived and were put
in a very nice setting to end the series. They're not dead, they're just
raising families of their own. What's to cry about?
