[ SECRET POST #2696 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2696 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I like happy endings, even happily-ever-after endings when it fits the story. But there's a difference between a fairytale happy ending and an ending so artificially perfect that it breaks suspension of disbelief.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think it's that "artificially perfect"

There's still plenty of room for problems, but the main character gets what he wants in the end.

[(Anonymous)]

Did he though?

The thing that stuck out to me in the epilogue is that we're spending all this time talking about kids' names and I'm thinking "what changed? Are centaurs accepted in wizard society? Werewolves? Are goblins treated better? House elves? Are there still death eaters? Is there still rampant blood snobbery? Did they change *ANYTHING?*" and the epilogue was like "lol, who cares, Albus Severus is awesomest name."

[electromouse]

/Throws all the +1s here

[cushlamochree]

To be honest, I could even have taken an ending that was too perfect. It's not the happiness or the perfection of the ending that gets me, it's the goofiness of it and the shallowness. It's just unsatisfying. Not because it's happy, there's just not enough there. It's not just happy. It's pat.

And also, the names are really bad.

[elaminator]

Agreed. Though I'm not even saying HP's ending is artificially perfect because I never finished HP (only read about the epilogue), but in general I agree with your sentiment.

Happy endings are great, and sometimes they're exactly what I want, and sometimes they fit the story to a T.

But sometimes they don't make any sense.

Plus, not every happy ending has to be a 'fairytale' happy ending. A happy ending can still be imperfect.

[needled_ink_1975]

+1. Actually, +many.