From: tsbrueni@dcn.davis.ca.us   
      
   On Friday, August 3, 2007 at 12:49:07 AM UTC-7, peter wrote:   
   > I still see people on the tube reading HP7, presumably now the kids   
   > have read it it's the parents' turn.  So - spoiler alert (and also   
   > passing references to Lord of the Rings and Romeo and Juliet!)   
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   > This may mave been said before - there are just too many posts to   
   > scroll through!  I found the endding of the last book unsatisfactory.   
   > No, not because it didn't end as I predicted. I would have had   
   > Hermione and Ron good friends, but not married to each other, and   
   > Hermione taking over the Daily Prophet or the Quibbler and turning it   
   > into a quality broadsheet. Nor was it because of improbable plot   
   > devices, which have been known in other works.  Why did Juliet not   
   > escape with Romeo to Mantua?.  Indeed, the whole series has been   
   > entralling, and any writer who has kids queuing up to read a book   
   > deserves praise.   
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   > The plot moved too quickly from the battle of Hogwarts, with many of   
   > the secondary characters slain, to "...and they all lived happily ever   
   > after".  Life isn't like that.  In Lord of the Rings, after the defeat   
   > of Sauron we move the the Scouring of the Shire (shamefully omitted   
   > from the film) which shows the prevasiveness of evil and how Frodo is   
   > too deeply scarred to return to a normal life.  Harry's experiences   
   > must have similarly affected him, and having watched him grow up I   
   > want to know how he coped afterwards.  Even wizards may be susceptible   
   > to post traumatic stress disorder.   
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   > And, yes, I would have liked to read how Hogwarts and the Ministry   
   > were rebuilt, and how Harry and Ginny's relationship survived Harry's   
   > celebrity.   
      
   I would like to know how the Slytherins recovered from the PR disaster   
   Voldemort caused, and if Hermione was ever able to free the house elves!   
      
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