Mugglenet.com's Harry Potter Should Have Died - Emerson Spartz [12]
Not only are the fates of the vast majority of characters missing in the Epilogue, there are also no clues about the fate of house-elves, goblins, or werewolves. What happened to S.P.E.W., the Society for Preservation of Elfish Welfare, started by Hermione? Were goblins ever treated fairly by wizards and allowed to carry wands? Were werewolves ever given basic human rights such as being able to hold jobs? These questions were raised many times in the series, and even in the W.O.M.B.A.T. tests given on the official site. But we don’t get any answers in the Epilogue.
What we do see in the DH Epilogue are some of the children of the main characters, yet the fans could scarcely believe some of the names. Draco’s child Scorpius seems to have a dark Death Eater name, though Draco supposedly reformed. In contrast, the names of Ron and Hermione’s kids, Rose and Hugo, seem to have been chosen just because they match the initials of their parents. Harry’s three children are each named for people significant to him alone, with the oldest named James for Harry’s father and the youngest named Lily for Harry’s mother. The middle Potter child is named for Dumbledore and Severus Snape, the ever-sarcastic professor who never had a kind word to say to Harry. That just seems beyond belief and surprising in a bad way. And it begs the question of why Ginny would be so compliant on the names when she was always so opinionated and feisty throughout the series. She has certainly toned herself down a lot because not one of her children is named after anyone in the Weasley family, not even Ginny’s father, Arthur, or her favorite brother, Bill, or her dead brother, Fred. Yes, we see Bill and Fleur’s daughter, Victoire, who is snogging Lupin’s son Teddy, but where are George Weasley’s children? Or Percy’s, since Harry overhears him talking in the train station? Why set the Epilogue in King’s Cross and miss a golden opportunity to show us the children of many more characters as they gathered to catch the Hogwarts Express? We wanted so much more!
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The Epilogue is not a letdown, unless readers had unrealistic expectations. J.K.R. could never write enough backstory to please all of her readers, and it would have been impossible to pack every detail about the characters into the last chapter. Who would want the series to end with a big genealogy chart? So J.K.R. had to focus on the most important characters that have been at the heart of the story from the beginning—Harry, Ron, and Hermione—and their children. If the chapter has a fairy-tale quality to it, it is because the characters have suffered and deserve a peaceful future. That’s the emotional payoff. And who cares if every detail is not explored? The author told an interviewer on NBC’s Today Show just after DH was released that she was going for a “nebulous” quality that didn’t give everything away [JKR-TD]. Every great book leaves something to the readers’ imaginations, and that is also true of Deathly Hallows. Additionally, we know J.K.R. is in the process of compiling an encyclopedia full of niggling details to satiate her most rabid fans.
Plenty of story lines are completed by the Epilogue. Harry has the family he always wanted. The orphaned Teddy Lupin has been accepted as a family member by Harry and Ginny. Harry’s children are the namesakes of those who tried to save Harry, and he and Draco seem to respect each other as adults. And the next generation of children is on their way to Hogwarts