Everybody Hates The Epilogue

"Harry Potter's magic disappeared before the end of his final book,
according to fantasy novelist Lev Grossman, and it's all because of
happy endings. Spoilers ahead for those who still haven't read the
Deathly Hallows!

Grossman explained his disappointment in JK Rowling's choice of future
for her boy hero to Newsarama.com:

I loved Harry Potter, but that epilogue was such an astounding
failure of imagination on Rowling's part! And in a way, it throws the
entirety of all seven novels into doubt retroactively.

I felt the problem she failed to solve was the question of,
"here's a young man who can do magic, who has defeated the enemy of
humanity when her was 18 ? what's the rest of his life look like?" And
the best she can imagine is that he marries his high school sweetheart
and puts on a big gut and lives in the suburbs. What a disaster!

He went on to say,

There has to be some better fate for Harry Potter than what he
gets. I think that's something of the message of [Grossman's new book]
The Magicians ? you're not going to go to Narnia, but there has to be
something better than that bourgeois suburban mediocrity that seems
like the only alternative."


See, the problem is, we learn the really cool stuff from interviews
and what not, not the book itself. The epilogue might as well just
said Our heroes get married, have kids, and take them to Kings Cross
each year.
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