Harry Potter characters' futures

[Kimi3013]

I don't see any compelling reason why the whole HP world shouldn't be magical, with no muggles at all. It'd make the series less escapist, I guess, and might hurt sales, but that'd be a small price to pay, IMO.

I don't think I'd have liked the series as much if everyone was able to do magic. I started reading the series when I was about 10 or 11, and the idea that there could be a whole hidden world out there was something that I really enjoyed. There was a chance they you could be special and taken away to a secret world just by going on a train journey was great.

Take way that hidden world part and you take way a sense of wonder and the chance it could really happen to your self. As kid I really enjoyed that part of the books, something that I wouldn't want to give up. It would be too much of a price to pay IMO.

 

[iguana_tonante]

I don't see any compelling reason why the whole HP world shouldn't be magical, with no muggles at all. It'd make the series less escapist, I guess, and might hurt sales, but that'd be a small price to pay, IMO.

I don't think I'd have liked the series as much if everyone was able to do magic. I started reading the series when I was about 10 or 11, and the idea that there could be a whole hidden world out there was something that I really enjoyed. There was a chance they you could be special and taken away to a secret world just by going on a train journey was great.

Take way that hidden world part and you take way a sense of wonder and the chance it could really happen to your self. As kid I really enjoyed that part of the books, something that I wouldn't want to give up. It would be too much of a price to pay IMO.

I can understand your reasons perfectly, and i agree it could have detracted from the enjoyment for some readers. But philosophically, i really dislike the notion of a caste who is "better" than normal people, be it aristocrats, wizards or jedi.

 

[spocksbrain]

My choice for a next book -- not that this will ever happen -- is one written purely for adults: Harry is now in his 40's and just like the captain of a high school football team, he peaked when he was 17 years old and it's been downhill ever since. He still hangs on to his faded glory, but it's just that. He's now in a midlife crisis, things with Ginny have cooled, he's tempted by the young witches he sees in the corridors of the Ministry who have heard of him from their parents. To get his mojo back, he gets involved in a mystery somewhat like the DaVinci Code, something with adventure and conspiracy, no one believes him, he returns to vitality but maybe has an affair along the way to keep things spicy. All set in the magical world, of course.

 

[Gaith]

I don't think I'd have liked the series as much if everyone was able to do magic. I started reading the series when I was about 10 or 11, and the idea that there could be a whole hidden world out there was something that I really enjoyed. There was a chance they you could be special and taken away to a secret world just by going on a train journey was great.

With all due respect, consider the case of a starving child refugee in Darfur for a moment. Just by going on a plane journey, he could enter the comparatively magical world of England... And Rowling has made a huge fortune by making English kids wish their lives were more enchanting. It's sort of nauseating, really; much like the ending of Narnia's The Last Battle. The ending to His Dark Materials, on the other hand, is far more socially responsible.

Don't get me wrong; I'm not saying HP is worthless solely because of this matter. But it does trouble me.

Well, it's always seemed to me that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows's finale should have involved Harry overthrowing the entire Wizarding social order by exposing the Magical world to the Muggles, and that that should have been the final key to defeating Voldemort.

I hadn't thought of that, but it's a terrific idea. One vote in favor!

 

[Neeka Keet]

I think magical people separated themselves from the muggle world for a good reason. I believe the piece of legislation that mandated that magic not be done in the presence of Muggles was created around the time of the Salem witch trials which I imagine led to magical people realizing what Muggles were capable of if they believed that magic was real. It's kinda like the prime directive in my opinion, they can protect Muggles from dark magic discreetly but they can't protect Muggles from themselves.

P.S. Hermione and Ron are perfect together and just 'cause Ron was a lazy ass oblivious boy doesn't mean he didn't grow up to be great husband, father, and Auror. Most of the conflicts they went through in their youths were caused by both their lacks of maturity (Ron's more than Hermione's) and miscommunication. Teenagers can be stupid like that.

 

[Trippy]

I think Ron/Hermoine worked in the books.

I think Harry/Hermoine worked in the films. Radcliffe and Watson have way more chemistry in scenes together than Grint and Watson do.

 

[Brendan Moody]

The ending to His Dark Materials, on the other hand, is far more socially responsible.

How, exactly? It's the same sort of well-meaning but vague "And now we've killed the bad guy people will be much nicer to each other" conclusion as you get in Harry Potter.

If we're going to take writers to task for creating fictional realities that draw people's attention away from problems in the real world, the list goes well beyond Rowling, I should think.

 

[Neeka Keet]

I think Ron/Hermoine worked in the books.

I think Harry/Hermoine worked in the films. Radcliffe and Watson have way more chemistry in scenes together than Grint and Watson do.

I agree with that statement when it comes to the first four movies but in OotP Grint and Watson suddenly seemed to have developed a very good chemistry. Did you see all the eye sex those two were having?

 

[Sci]

I don't think I'd have liked the series as much if everyone was able to do magic. I started reading the series when I was about 10 or 11, and the idea that there could be a whole hidden world out there was something that I really enjoyed. There was a chance they you could be special and taken away to a secret world just by going on a train journey was great.

With all due respect, consider the case of a starving child refugee in Darfur for a moment. Just by going on a plane journey, he could enter the comparatively magical world of England... And Rowling has made a huge fortune by making English kids wish their lives were more enchanting. It's sort of nauseating, really; much like the ending of Narnia's The Last Battle. The ending to His Dark Materials, on the other hand, is far more socially responsible.

I think you're being a little bit ridiculous here. I agree that Harry Potter should have more fully realized its theme of equality by having Harry overthrow the Wizarding world's secrecy, but I don't think it's accurate to say that the idea of equality is not a major theme there that shines through. Further, I reject the idea that His Dark Materials's ending is more socially responsible -- it is more somber, but both series essentially end with the primary characters realizing the necessity of rebuilding the societies they've known -- the Republic of Heaven for Lyra, a reformed Ministry of Magic for Harry.

And if you're going to fault Harry Potter for taking its readers away from their real-world problems, then you have to fault every single piece of literature ever written, quite frankly.

Well, it's always seemed to me that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows's finale should have involved Harry overthrowing the entire Wizarding social order by exposing the Magical world to the Muggles, and that that should have been the final key to defeating Voldemort.

I hadn't thought of that, but it's a terrific idea. One vote in favor!

Thank you.

 

[captcalhoun]

if everyone could do magic in HP's world, the whole story'd fall apart. the whole point was that harry lived with abunch of unlikeable relatives who had no truck with it and he knew nothing of it.

 

[Eduardo]

More information that wasn't contained in Eduardo's post:
- Hermione did in fact return to Hogwarts to get her N.E.W.T.s

- George married Fred's ex-girlfriend Angelina Johnson, and, in addition to Fred the Second, they had a daughter named Roxanne

- Luna and Rolf had twin boys whom they named Lorcan and Lysander

- Harry remained on 'Christmas card terms' with Dudley, and occasionally took his family to visit Dudley and his family, although this was mainly to allow his children to develop relationships with their muggle relations, since Harry and Dudley rarely talked during said visits

- Percy married a woman named Audrey, and they had twin daughters named Molly and Lucy

- In addition to Victoire, Bill and Fleur had two other children, a daughter named Dominique and a son named Louis

- Draco married Asteria Greengrass, the younger sister of his Slytherin classmate Daphne Greengrass

Oh right, that's what I forgot, to add everything that was revealed by the Potter Family tree!

Ooops, time to update the file.