pynki:

headcanonsandmore:

ronandhappiness:

headcanonsandmore:

Let’s see how unpopular it is. 

Thoughts, everyone? 

(Thanks for the ask, anon!)

disagree and agree. i agree that “albus severus” was a bad move on jkr’s part. i mean, i’m okay with harry forgiving snape. It’s not for me to decide whether a victim should forgive their bully but to name your child after a spiteful, vile and unhappy man? hell no. i’m definitely biased over here but in my culture, we don’t name our children after people who’ve had shitty lives, because names are powerful. It’s as simple as that.

however, that does not mean that the epilogue is the worst chapter in the books and the way some hp fans talk about it, you’d think that jk rowling pissed on their plants. there are many things that shouldn’t have happened in the books. for example, ron bumping his head after his quidditch victory. dumbledore telling harry that he was going to make him a perfect instead of ron. a certain aspect of the lavender business that I won’t elaborate on or the hermione stans will eat me. But the epilogue gets more hate than it deserves.

I’ve noticed that most people only hate the Epilogue because their garbage ships got sunk. And sorry not sorry but most of fandumb’s crack-ships aren’t any better than the canon ships, and there’s nothing you can say that’ll change my mind. Heck, I’ve actually read a so-called “better” version of the epilogue and it was the fucking same (word by word actually) except it was gross dr*rry instead of hinny and cho x ginny except for drastoria (they didn’t change romione, though.) congrats to the author for adding diversity but shame on the author for thinking that dreary dr*rry is better than a wholesome ship like Harry x Ginny.

Basically, most people only hate the epilogue because they don’t like the canon ships and I drink the salty tears of non-canon shippers daily. I don’t know why they even care about the endgames considering that they end up divorcing them in their fics for obscure reasons I have yet to understand.

@ronandhappiness So, basically, most of the things that shouldn’t have happened in the books tend to revolve around ‘Rowling putting Ron Weasley through the blender just for spite’. Can’t say I disagree with that assessment. 

No, please elaborate about the Lavender business. You piqued my interest now! I’m sure most Hermione fans who follow our blogs understand that our problems aren’t so much with the character but the author. 

I don’t personally mind the epilogue. Although I have very mixed feelings about Harry and Ginny naming all their kids after other people (although Lily Luna is quite a sweet name). I think the way Ron and Hermione named their kids was better (also, having their initials swapping genders was a nice touch). Although I suppose Ron understood the difficulty of having to live up to someone-else’s reputation, and didn’t want that to happen to their children. 

Having said that, I was a bit worried about the fact that Slytherin still had a bad reputation even 19 years later. I know Harry and Ginny didn’t have any problems with Slytherin, but the stigma still exists after almost two decades later. 

The house system caused so many problems at Hogwarts, why didn’t the lightning generation realise that it would make more sense to either de-stigmatise Slytherin or just get rid of house divides altogether? Having Slytherin still be seen as ‘the evil house’ implies that nothing ever actually changed, and that the problems that created the wizarding wars were never gotten rid of. Unless the Wizarding World completely reformed itself from the ground-up, another Voldemort could easily occur in the future. 

That’s just my thoughts, though; what do you all think?

I don’t have a problem with the epilogue per se, I just think it was quick, cheap and lazy. Nowhere near as emotional as it could have been. 

I would have liked to see the epilogue not as far into the future as “19 years later” I think it would have been beautifully poetic to see the Potters and the Granger-Weasleys taking their kids trick or treating in Godric’s Hollows on Halloween.  But not before visiting James and Lily. 

gaylittlepieceofsh1t:

headcanonsandmore:

ronandhappiness:

headcanonsandmore:

Let’s see how unpopular it is. 

Thoughts, everyone? 

(Thanks for the ask, anon!)

disagree and agree. i agree that “albus severus” was a bad move on jkr’s part. i mean, i’m okay with harry forgiving snape. It’s not for me to decide whether a victim should forgive their bully but to name your child after a spiteful, vile and unhappy man? hell no. i’m definitely biased over here but in my culture, we don’t name our children after people who’ve had shitty lives, because names are powerful. It’s as simple as that.

however, that does not mean that the epilogue is the worst chapter in the books and the way some hp fans talk about it, you’d think that jk rowling pissed on their plants. there are many things that shouldn’t have happened in the books. for example, ron bumping his head after his quidditch victory. dumbledore telling harry that he was going to make him a perfect instead of ron. a certain aspect of the lavender business that I won’t elaborate on or the hermione stans will eat me. But the epilogue gets more hate than it deserves.

I’ve noticed that most people only hate the Epilogue because their garbage ships got sunk. And sorry not sorry but most of fandumb’s crack-ships aren’t any better than the canon ships, and there’s nothing you can say that’ll change my mind. Heck, I’ve actually read a so-called “better” version of the epilogue and it was the fucking same (word by word actually) except it was gross dr*rry instead of hinny and cho x ginny except for drastoria (they didn’t change romione, though.) congrats to the author for adding diversity but shame on the author for thinking that dreary dr*rry is better than a wholesome ship like Harry x Ginny.

Basically, most people only hate the epilogue because they don’t like the canon ships and I drink the salty tears of non-canon shippers daily. I don’t know why they even care about the endgames considering that they end up divorcing them in their fics for obscure reasons I have yet to understand.

@ronandhappiness So, basically, most of the things that shouldn’t have happened in the books tend to revolve around ‘Rowling putting Ron Weasley through the blender just for spite’. Can’t say I disagree with that assessment. 

No, please elaborate about the Lavender business. You piqued my interest now! I’m sure most Hermione fans who follow our blogs understand that our problems aren’t so much with the character but the author. 

I don’t personally mind the epilogue. Although I have very mixed feelings about Harry and Ginny naming all their kids after other people (although Lily Luna is quite a sweet name). I think the way Ron and Hermione named their kids was better (also, having their initials swapping genders was a nice touch). Although I suppose Ron understood the difficulty of having to live up to someone-else’s reputation, and didn’t want that to happen to their children. 

Having said that, I was a bit worried about the fact that Slytherin still had a bad reputation even 19 years later. I know Harry and Ginny didn’t have any problems with Slytherin, but the stigma still exists after almost two decades later. 

The house system caused so many problems at Hogwarts, why didn’t the lightning generation realise that it would make more sense to either de-stigmatise Slytherin or just get rid of house divides altogether? Having Slytherin still be seen as ‘the evil house’ implies that nothing ever actually changed, and that the problems that created the wizarding wars were never gotten rid of. Unless the Wizarding World completely reformed itself from the ground-up, another Voldemort could easily occur in the future. 

That’s just my thoughts, though; what do you all think?

I think the epilogue opened up new questions but not always in a good way.

The little things like oh Ron learned how to drive a car the muggle way! Neville is a professor! Ron gained a sense of self worth! Harry and Draco are cordial to each other?! That’s all *chef’s kiss* mwah!

But the writing of the point of view hasn’t matured. I still read it like it’s from a 17 year olds perspective. There’s no real divide other than the title that tells me this is 19 years later.

All the main characters are living cookie cutter, heteronormative lives which I mean okay sounds lovely but what do I get from it? The children’s names are all just these emblems of the dead like (other than Rose and Hugo) that’s touching but also very macabre?

Also the fact that if this was to be set 19 years later, it doesn’t show. What is new? What has changed? Any new laws? Spells? New people on the rise? Anything?!

Also the women are sidelined. I love the emphasis on the men but I can’t remember too many notable dialogues from Hermione or Ginny.

The Albus Severus situation was not the build up or anticipation I wanted! Not something I read and went oh that’s good! I felt disturbed. I felt like oh Harry the 17 year old is raising a kid not the apparently mature auror, aged 37.