God, I hope not.

Yes, it could do. Their kids get on the train...

I don't think so. Voldemort was the driving conflict behind the whole series. I don't see a repeat in my crystal ball.

I think it's a possibility. It's certainly one that occurred to me. There would either have to be a new antagonist of some sort (what if Voldemort were actually the bidding of a greater malevolent force, for example), or it would have to turn out that he wasn't completely defeated after all. Which isn't totally out of the question-- after all, they thought he had been eliminated at the beginning of the series-- but I think the "larger malevolent force" is more likely.

I don't think so either. There's coldness between the Malfoys and the Greater Weasley family, but Draco isn't the pure evil that Voldemort had been.

That said, "Scorpius" is a pretty inauspicious thing to name your firstborn. I'd rather go with "Judas."

If there were a follow-up book, I'd be skeptical. And I'd probably buy it.

There's space for a follow up, but I think we need to see if Rowling *needs* to write one. She's richer than Midas now and if it were me I'd spend the rest of my days wandering the earth.

If she does write more, I'm guessing that she'll either go for something new or try and create something different inside the same universe. I'm guessing the former.

I still haven't read the first one. Someone gave me a copy but I haven't read it. *shrugs*

I tend to doubt it. I think it was more of a "life has gone back to normal" thing. That Harry had achieved what he had never had in his conscious memory, a loving family, and he was the proud father sending his children off to school in the way his father and mother could not.

I hope she is smart enough not to pull a David Eddings and tell the same story over and over again.

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That epilogue was about as interesting as a three-day-old fried egg.

Meh. The whole book didn't do much for me. Its plot fundamentals and character(istics) were pretty much the same as the first book and all the others. I want some frigging personality growth in addition to physical growth. Booring.

end rant. If you liked it, good on you, no worries.

Yep, the epilogue was a dud. The rest of the book was much better in tone and in spirit.

I'd like a companion book derived from her notes with everyone/thing's backstory, but not another sequel.

Good start. Long boring bit. Confusing ending.

Word, arse_hat. Yeah, I don't want a sequel. The whole point of the epilogue was that normality resumed, right? And that was a desirable thing. Harry *wanted* to be a Quidditch-dad, no matter how icky that was to us. He wanted the normality of family life, because he never had it.

(although I totally want the epilogue on everyone. Is Hermione Minister of Magic, or Muggle Relations or something? Are Harry and Ron Aurors? Is Luna the editor of the Quibbler? etc.)

i always wanted to know more about wands and goblins and magical objects since the first book and i want to know what happened to Weasley Wheezes.

Ya know, it's not like Harry has to work, he's got loads of money.

i just ate through that book on Saturday like everyone else, to find out what happened, suspending all judgement on how it was written. i wonder how they'll moviefy it with all the stuff they've left out.
i'm still not sure how people who didn't read the book got the last movie, they never even brought up the Dumbledore's Army bit until they got called it, etc.

I saw the epilogue as evidence of just the opposite.

Hogwarts: The Next Generation would be relatively awful, particularly since any conceivable antagonist (and you know there would be one) would have to be created new out of whole cloth. This new Big Bad would lack the history of You-Know-Who and (more importantly) the many connections to any protagonist.

Furthermore, the names she gave the children are ridiculously sentimental. I don't believe I could follow the adventures of young A. S. Potter without groaning every other page. And Draco's child? Sounds more like a Farscape villain ... because it is.

And beyond that ... by pitching the clock forward nineteen years, we'd be starting in 2017 (HP7 takes place in 1998). By placing Potter in Hogwarts originally in 1991, so historical context has never been an issue for Rowling. But though she barely includes any references to actual events in the series, still she would be challenged by imagining just how the muggle and wizarding worlds will have changed in the next ten years.

Now ... for my money, the more interesting spin-off from the series would be the tales that some of the fan-fic afficionados are calling for: "The Marauder Tales," a set of prequels about young James and Lily Potter, young Sirius Black, young Remus Lupin and so on.

Damn, I'm a geek.

The epilogue was the kind of thing that you really, really want when you're 11 years old but that gets old when you grow up. I saw it as a nod to the original, kid audience. And it also made me want to write another one, where Harry & Ginny date for a year or two, but it just doesn't work out, and he slowly starts drinking more and more, hanging out on the party circuit, never quite getting it together while meanwhile, Hermione and Ron live in quiet desperation because neither of them ever actually can make any money and the kids keep coming and they get ever more resentful of their rich alcoholic friend - you know, that kind of epilogue. A grown up one.