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- **Spoilers for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows lie here. Read at your own risk***
Hmm. I really hate that there's canonical info that isn't included in the texts themselves. Apparently people already knew about Aberforth being the bartender of the Hog's Head before this book. Not fair!
This is why I really hope she does get around to producing the Encyclopedia of Harry Potterverse that she mentioned as a possibility during an interview after HBP came out. She has boxes full of backstory that she didn't get to cram into the books (the names of all the kids who entered Hogwarts in Harry's year and what house they ended up in, backstory on some of them like Dean, etc.), and said that she wouldn't mind using it in a future project like that.
Like "Tales of Middle Earth." She could call them
Hogwarts Year Books
MSNBC has a bunch of readers' comments on the DH. I liked this one (from a 10-year-old):
The realization that one of the greatest series is over will take a few weeks to handle. Just like how Voldemort wanted, there will be no more happiness.
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This is so cute. I just have to tag.
Awwww!! That's so sad.
I am now put into a position to find a fault with a fabulous book
A ten-year-old wrote that?
This is why I really hope she does get around to producing the Encyclopedia of Harry Potterverse that she mentioned as a possibility during an interview after HBP came out.
She's going to!!!
The encyclopedia would include back stories of characters she has already written but had to cut for the sake of narrative arc ("I've said before that Dean Thomas had a much more interesting history than ever appeared in the books"), as well as details about the characters who survive "Deathly Hallows," characters who continue to live on in Rowling’s mind in a clearly defined magical world.
Oh, there's some good shit in here:
“Mr. Weasley, he was the person who got a reprieve,” Rowling said. “When I sketched out the books, Mr. Weasley was due to die in Book Five.”
I'm really looking forward to going back now and rereading the entire series. I've read each book only once and so had forgotten half of the previous one each time a new one came out. I kind of didn't want to reread until I could have a full-out marathon, and now I can. Whee!
Welcome, Margaret! Please don't say that you're old at 21. I just realized that the freshmen I'll be teaching next year were born the year I graduated high school. Ack!
“Mr. Weasley, he was the person who got a reprieve,” Rowling said. “When I sketched out the books, Mr. Weasley was due to die in Book Five.”
holy fuck. I do not like this at all. You can't kill Mr. Weasley!
Quick sidenote: Jilli, when ND and I were watching OotP a couple of weeks ago, he leaned over and whispered, "Luna is Jilli."
I was put out for a moment thinking about the spacy weirdness of her in the books, but then I watched film!Luna feeding the baby thestral and had to admit he had a point.
