more Harry Potter? Spoilers!

I've re-read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and I have frankly changed my original opinion of it. I'm happy that Harry's story ended happily, with his marriage and his family and all, but somehow J.K. Rowling's treatment of the end of it all seems a bit off. It seems hurried for one, and the writing isn't too clean. From a writer's point of view, I'd hate to think that J.K. sacrificed the quality of her writing under pressure to finish the book. :(

Then again, I'm just glad it's over.

Still, for those who want more of Harry, and those who feel that J.K. has left so many things unsaid, this one's for you.

J.K. Rowling goes Beyond the Epilogue

[info from various sources including MSNBC and USA Today]

J.K. Rowling has announced in new interviews with the Today show on NBC TV today (July 26) that the epilogue of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was vague on purpose.

She said it was her desire for it to be "nebulous," something "poetic," and that she wanted the readers to feel as if they were looking at Platform 9 3/4 through the mist, unable to make out exactly who was there and who was not.

She admitted her original epilogue was "a lot more detailed," including the name of every child born to the Weasley clan in the past 19 years. For example, Victoire, who was snogging Teddy, Lupin and Tonks' son, is Bill and Fleur's eldest child.

"But it didn't work very well as a piece of writing," J.K. said. "It felt very much that I had crowbarred in every bit of information I could ... In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything."

But now that Book 7 is in our hands, J.K. no longer has to hold back any information about Harry Potter. With 14 fans crowded around her in Edinburgh Castle in Scotland earlier this week, J.K. has now told us the following exciting information:

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So there's going to be more. I would definitely like to learn more about what happened to everyone at the end.