It brings me back to Dumbledore's line, about how it's not less real if it's in somebody's head, or, as the case may be, "just" in a book - it's real enough for somebody to sort their emotions through it, to deal with hardships using the truth of it, emotional truth just as factual one.

There were some articles floating around at the time of the release talking about kids working through the grieving process due to the death of fictional characters. My friend, who is a school counselor, called it bibliotherapy.

ION, Nilly not only made me cry, she actually made me like the epilogue a little. Bless.

I think it would be awesome if the Weasleys...the impoverished, generally disparaged Weasleys...turned out to be descended from Merlin, possibly through Viviane.

That was exactly my thought, too.

I think it would be awesome if the Weasleys...the impoverished, generally disparaged Weasleys...turned out to be descended from Merlin, possibly through Viviane.

That was exactly my thought, too.

Mere words cannot express how madly in love I am with y'all's spicy brains and this train of thought. I'm just sitting here at my desk flailing.

And waiting for someone to write a fic. Bonus points if it contains fragments of a lost chapter or two from Malory.

Merlin had kids?

Didn't he have Mordred with Viviane Le Fay?

I guess it's time for me to reread Morte d'Arthur, too.

No, Mordred was Arthur's son - and nephew. Thus, the angst and the curse.

Mordred is the son of Arthur and his half-sister Morgause.

That's right. And it was Morgan Le Fay, not Viviane.

I've got to reread some Malory soon.

Morgan Le Fay became conflated with her sister Morgause in later retellings.