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- **Spoilers for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows lie here. Read at your own risk***
JKR's chat with the Leaky Cauldron:
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J.K. Rowling: Hermione began her post-Hogwarts career at the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures where she was instrumental in greatly improving life for house-elves and their ilk. She then moved (despite her jibe to Scrimgeour) to the Dept. of Magical Law Enforcement where she was a progressive voice who ensured the eradication of oppressive, pro-pureblood laws.
J.K. Rowling: Yes, Teddy was raised by Andromeda.
After a few years as a celebrated player for the Holyhead Harpies, Ginny retired to have her family and to become the Senior Quidditch correspondent at the Daily Prophet!
but he held them together; his humour and his good heart were essential.
What about being a git and stomping off all the time? Was that helpful?
What about being a git and stomping off all the time? Was that helpful?
I was half hoping Ron would go evil so he could be smacked around some.
One of the things I'd like to know is; what happened to Umbridge? It would've been nice to see her get her comeuppance.
See, I'm okay with her not being all of that. It's like...it's like, I'd be pissed if Condoleeza Rice got a state funeral. Umbridge thought she was Somebody, all important and stuff, but without either cheating or dominating children, she wasn't much at all.
And I liked that where they'd been all terrified of her before, now Harry just blew her away.
So Harry and Draco will never be friends. They don't have to be, because as Spike says, "You'll never be friends."
What's odd about that interview (which I loved) is that she gives Ron a different future. I'd believe that one more than that he became an Auror, gallivanting about and fighting Dark Wizards with his ol' chum Harry Potter. He'd have way more fun with the joke shop.
Well, I can see that he could have done both - - started off in the jokeshop and then later become an aurer - having been brought in by Harry.
