Board 8 > Seriously, why was the Epilogue even included? *HP Spoilers*

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It reeked of awful in the seventh book, and apparently this suckage carried over quite naturally into the film adaptation. Basically bad fanfiction, ugh. So someone who's a bigger fan than I am, please explain this to me: why would Rowling do such a thing?

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Because Albus Severus Potter

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BoshStrikesBack posted...
why would Rowling do such a thing?

cause she's not that talented?

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Liberal Degenerate posted...
cause she's not that talented?

She's damn talented with individual words and sentences and sometimes scenes. Not really good with universe coherency and large-scale plots and having a good sense of what to cut.

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I think she wrote the epilogue way back when she was writing the first books.

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I think she wrote the epilogue way back when she was writing the first books.

From what I heard, yeah. She wrote the epilogue before the first book was published and refused to edit it from how it was original for sentimental reasons.

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Dudley was going to have a wizard kid, but she decided that anyone related to Vernon by blood would have no hope of having wizard genes. Which is actually a good change IMO.

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My Immortal posted...
From what I heard, yeah. She wrote the epilogue before the first book was published and refused to edit it from how it was original for sentimental reasons.

That would make sense, yeah. Having reread all the books several times, the first few books have noticeably worse writing quality than the later books. The quality of writing steadily goes up until about book 5 when she more or less has her writing down.

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I didn't dislike the epilogue at all.

Like it was a bit "neat" I guess and one or two characters got shunned a bit, but it was a nice way to finish everything off.

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the movie epilogue was soooo bad

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An author tends to do whatever the **** they want. Because, you know, they're the author.

Well sure. Most authors, however, are trying to write *quality* novels, so leaving such a miserable conclusion in the final product is baffling to me, considering how great the conclusion is otherwise.

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What I really never understood is why Rowling needed to make a point out of declaring that Dumbledore was gay, seeing as it had no relevancy to the series at all.

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OInsaneOne32 posted...
What I really never understood is why Rowling needed to make a point out of declaring that Dumbledore was gay, seeing as it had no relevancy to the series at all.

IIRC, the movie people wanted him to have a love interest and she just casually told them she always envisioned him as being gay. It wasn't so much that she made a point of it as the movie directors wanted to add extra crap when they already cut out so much relevant stuff.

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wait they reference gay dumbledore in the epilogue?

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If the epilogue wasn't included, you'd have just as many people pissing and moaning about that.

She couldn't win.

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KingButz posted...
wait they reference gay dumbledore in the epilogue?

No, it was something she confirmed in an interview after book 7 was released.

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Biolizard28 posted...
If the epilogue wasn't included, you'd have just as many people pissing and moaning about that.

She couldn't win.

She could have rewritten it instead of using something she wrote a decade ago.

That seems to be the biggest problem with the epilogue - not so much that she made one, but that it was just sooo bad

like the movie one

which was extra bad

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KingButz posted...
wait they reference gay dumbledore in the epilogue?

No, it was something she confirmed in an interview after book 7 was released.

I was aware of that, I guess I incorrectly inferred that the movie epilogue referenced that. My bad.

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Ryo8889 posted...
This is her story. This maybe are last chance.

Superb.

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what happens in the epilogue? i read the first 6 books and then just...lost interest lol

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Harry and Ginny get married and have kids one named "Albus Severus Potter"

Ron and Hermoni marry and have a kid

Neville becomes a teacher at Hogwarts (Herbology?)

and some other stuff I forgot

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^ Doesn't Malfoy also marry some girl (not sure if they mention who) and briefly nods at Harry before walking away or something?

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up for more info about movie epilogue

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What makes the epilogue so terrible, though?

Except for Albus Severus Potter.

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BoshStrikesBack posted...
up for more info about movie epilogue

Movie epilogue was fine. Brief, but good.

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the epilogue wasn't too bad in the movie because you don't really hear all the kids names except Albus Severus.And as awful of a name as it is, it does go along with the "what if I go to slytherin" thing, WIZARD UNITY, so I didn't mind too much

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As somebody who hated the epilogue in the book, the movie one was entirely tolerable. The actors did not look their age at all, but they tried. Honestly, I think what made the book epilogue so bad was the way it was written. Rowling's writing style got much better as time went by, and the final book was by far the best written... Until it slams you in the face with something written almost ten years earlier and barely changed since. It's a little jarring!

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Yeah, as bad as "Albus Severus Potter" flows phonetically, I had no real complaints about the epilogue. I mean, it wasn't the crown jewel of the book/series, but it offered itself as a peek into their adult years.

I suppose that's just me though. =\

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They should have just had Ginny and Harry **** like rabbits and treat her uterus like a clown car in typical Weasley fashion and keep naming kids after all the adult wizards they knew. Just think of the possibilities. Remus Reubeus Potter, Minerva Nymphadora Potter, the awesome possibilities are endless I say!

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Yeah Snape is in heaven constantly taunting Sirius about "The kid's got my name and not yours, haha sucker"

She wrote it to stop questions about another book coming out after it and to try to stop fan-writen works and the like

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