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just didn't want fanfic to make it up

I don't know anything about Suzanne Collins personally, but I do think JKR is smart enough to know that people would fanfic the hell out of her stories post-canon and having an epilogue would do very little to change it. So I'm thinking that's not the reason she wrote it.

JKR wrote the epilogue first. And it's perfectly in character--*all* Harry ever wanted was a "normal" life, with a family.

(Personally I detest HP fans who complain about the epilogue. In fact whiney fans in general annoy me. The books are AMAZING.)

Wrote it first, as in, before writing book 7? but yeah I agree, it's definitely IC. Though Harry did want to be an Auror, but I think he probably was able to accomplish that.

I don't mind critical analysis of a book but yeah in general I loved the series, and while the epilogue wasn't "OMG AMAZING" to me, I did like it and had no problem with it being there.

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No, I mean that was literally the first thing she wrote in the series *period.* Before she started writing PS, she wrote the epilogue--she knew all along where she was going with it (Ginny and Harry, Hermione and Ron, the kids' names, the symmetry of going to King's Cross again, etc.). In fact for YEARS she had assumed the last word of the series would end with the word "scar" (somehow. Not just by itself but part of a sentence, obvs). But I think it was during the writing of DH she changed that to "All was well."

I just get so annoyed at how entitled some fans are--sorry if I came off as grumpy :) These books are such a treasure--they're not perfect (I can find plot holes, problematic treatments, etc.) but what she did well was amazing. I read way too much fanfic that has that invisible chip on the shoulder, "here's how it SHOULD'VE been written!" that just annoys the **** out of me. All the fans who think Lily was a bitch, Ginny was a hoor, Snape was this misunderstood Nice Guy who was trashed by JKR. And they all seem to hate the epilogue! (Which is different from critical analysis--that, I love and appreciate.)

Ah, I didn't know that! That's pretty cool! Some amazing planning and she pulled it off well.

Is "hoor" an alternate way of spelling "whore"? And I'm so baffled by people thinking Ginny was a whore, or Lily was a bitch. (Like what? how do you even)