Not sure what was confusing about that, but let me know and I'll clarify.

 

She perhaps wrote an epilogue to stop EU stuff happening to her work after her death. Not every author likes other authors playing around with their sandbox and actually making money off it. Putting in an epilogue brings a lot of potential EU stories to a grinding stop.

 

IIRC, that's actually the reason she gave.

 

Ironic considering she was apparently dissatisfied with her own ending then.

She doesn't need to justify it--what I meant is that she's often asked these questions on official interviews.
She was asked the Hermione/Harry question that lead to this thread in one, so I wondered if other answers to some things that made me curious were also out there.

 

Does JKR not own the rights to Harry Potter? Why can't she just veto any potential EU stories?

 

Hmm, if she's reconsidering this relationship, does that mean she's reconsidering Lily and James too? I mean, they did butt heads more than once during their years at Hogwarts. They only suddenly became a couple in the seventh year, and I can't remember exactly how that even came about.

 

Thank you, sir, for taking back your wut.
Also Lilly and James are a lot harder to believe, since Rowling claimed she stuck with R/Hr out of stubborn daydreams or however she worded it.
Lilly and James have been eternal to the story and kinda give birth to the main character. I doubt she regreted them.
...But Snape did.

 

Guess I might have been misunderstood. What I was trying to point out if Lily, had she and James lived, would have been happy in marriage to James?

I don't care one bit about Snape's abloobloo feelings, he's completely irrelevant and his own fate was made with his own choices. Yeah, James and the crowd possibly were cunts to him, more than regularly so to others due to his friendship with Lily, but no one really forced him to be a Death Eater. It wasn't just his calling Lily a 'mudblood' that ended the friendship.

It's just strange to me that after six years of positively loathing the guy, she just up and goes becomes his wife straight out of Hogwarts. How does that work? They all just wave it off with "Oh he grew up." Splendid, truly splendid. Why not say the same about Ron then? He grew up.

That's the bit that irritates me the most I suppose.

 

Just going to argue that the success of the Uncharted series begs to differ. Nathan Drake is, at heart, just an ordinary guy in extraordinary circumstances.

...The difference is, Nate is well-written, and not a teenager going through adolescence, or dealing with teenage shit. The reason why average!Harry is unlikable as a hero is because he's a kid. He does kid things, and basically doesn't have a clue what he's going to do.

Like a kid.

 

Fuck that Canon Harry is best Harry.

 

Doesn't that apply to Harry as well, to some extent? Excellent flyer, gifted fighter, detective's mind, etc.

 

What? Aren't you exaggerating a bit?

 

lol, okay, you guys can keep shitting on Harry all you want. Sorry I said anything.

He worked his way through some mystery in each book. There. I don't know how much more non-complimentary I can make it. I meant to indicate the way he used deductive reasoning and intuition as a young man, which presumably led to success as an Auror.

 

Especially now that Snape is dead so he might actually suspect the real culprit.

 

Yeah, because the Dark Horse isn't a part of most mystery/detective novels . . . oh wait. Grown men get it wrong the same way all the time. And, oh yes, he was all of eleven.

Sounds like what you want to read about is a guy named Gary Stu. Harry Potter actually has flaws, and is wrong sometimes.

EDIT: Would you have even liked Voldemort if he couldn't slip past the investigation of an eleven year-old? Since he, you know, intended for Snape to draw suspicion exactly the way he did.

And if you ask many of the people on the forum, that reveal was easily one of the best parts of the book, if not the best. So, I don't know what point you're trying to make. Guess you're happy you stopped reading such trash after the first book right?

 

He's also a serial murderer, thief, vandal and destroyer of precious artifacts and historical sites, all done in pursuit of wealth.