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J.K.Rowling reveals post-DH wizarding world details (spoilers!)
In the first part of her interview with the Today Show this morning J.K.Rowling revealed information about the wizarding world post-Deathly Hallows.
In regards to the last chapter of the novel;
SPOILER!!: The author was shooting for...
“nebulous,” something “poetic.” She wanted the readers to feel as if they were looking at Platform 9¾ through the mist, unable to make out exactly who was there and who was not.
SPOILER!!: Rowling said her original...
epilogue was “a lot more detailed,” including the name of every child born to the Weasley clan in the past 19 years. (Victoire, who was snogging Teddy — Lupin and Tonks’ son — is Bill and Fleur’s eldest.)
“But it didn’t work very well as a piece of writing,” Rowling said. “It felt very much that I had crowbarred in every bit of information I could … In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything.”
Jo also reveals the careers of some of the characters who survived Deathly Hallows;
SPOILER!!: Occupations
As for his occupation, Harry, along with Ron, is working at the Auror Department at the Ministry of Magic. After all these years, Harry is now the department head.
“Harry and Ron utterly revolutionized the Auror Department,” Rowling said. “They are now the experts. It doesn’t matter how old they are or what else they’ve done.”
Meanwhile, Hermione, Ron’s wife, is “pretty high up” in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, despite laughing at the idea of becoming a lawyer in “Deathly Hallows.”
“I would imagine that her brainpower and her knowledge of how the Dark Arts operate would really give her a sound grounding,” Rowling said.
Harry, Ron and Hermione don’t join the same Ministry of Magic they had been at odds with for years; they revolutionize it and the ministry evolves into a “really good place to be.”
“They made a new world,” Rowling said.
She also talks about characters who were not mentioned in the final chapter;
SPOILER!!: “I think that...
Luna is now traveling the world looking for various mad creatures,” Rowling said. “She’s a naturalist, whatever the wizarding equivalent of that is.”
Luna comes to see the truth about her father, eventually acknowledging there are some creatures that don’t exist.
“But I do think that she’s so open-minded and just an incredible person that she probably would be uncovering things that no one’s ever seen before,” Rowling said.
Shockingly, Jo also talks about a pairing which she previously dismissed;
SPOILER!!: When she was first asked...
about the possibility of Luna hooking up with Neville Longbottom several years ago, Rowling’s response was “Definitely not.” But as time passed and she watched her characters mature, Rowling started to “feel a bit of a pull” between the unlikely pair.
Ultimately, Rowling left the question of their relationship open at the end of the book because doing otherwise “felt too neat.”
The video of the interview can be watched below;
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Originally Posted by katiebell
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Yeah...I was wondering about those questions asked....*wants more answered*
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Now that's definitely a true epilogue! Answered a fair amount of my questions... but I still want to know...
What did Dudley see (in the Dementor attack)?
I still wonder... I think of the snake pit from the first book, but we won't know for sure.
But that's awesome! I'm glad she told us what happens
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-squee- Yeah!! Well, we learned more.. Which makes me happy
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about harry potter : "a generation grew up with them." ..
"why do you live?" "because I have something worth living for."
He couldn’t know that at this very moment, people meeting in
secret all over the country were holding up their glasses and
saying in hushed voices: “To Harry Potter — the boy who lived!"
This answered a lot of my questions, but i still have a lot more! I thought that the epilogue told a lot, but left out even more. I wish she would have answered a few more questions in her interview!