Ed Bellis posted...
From: Biolizard28 | #071
I was mostly referring to the Sirius thing. >_>
Your points make plenty of sense, if I'm getting the correctly. It's like, you have this big, world changing event, and rather than going into the aftermath and repercussions, it's just "Who cares, yay weddings and babies"
Oh. My bad!
Yeah, that's pretty much my point. Flashing forward into the future is fine, but the entire world the books constructed just got left behind abruptly. We get 'resolution' in the sense that we see a happy ending in the distant future, but there was so much left unexplored, left unanswered. JK Rowling said she'd 'like to imagine' Harry got a portrait of Snape hung in the Headmaster's Office. She - and we - shouldn't have to imagine that at all!
It's called ending fatigue, Ed. There's only so much you can stretch a climax before it winds down unnaturally and the reader ends up feeling cheated out of a decent end. Additionally, there's the matter of presentation - it would be very difficult to take the usual third person/first person viewpoint of the rest of the books and make it work over the years without making it much longer than any other chapter, or very jarring. That sort of stuff works in the books of Terry Pratchett, but on in the books of J. K. Rowling.
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