It's really starting to hit me that we'll never see ANY of the characters again.

[XemaSab]

:cry:

Not Harry, not Ron, not Hermione, not Neville, not Luna, not Snape, not Hagrid, not Lupin, not Tonks, not Kingsley, not Mad-Eye, not any of the other Weasleys, not any of the Malfoys, not Minerva (YOU GO GIRL!), not any of them.

:sigh:

edit: realizing we're not going to see ANY of them. :downer:

[Caution]

1. For me this is always the hardest part of finishing any series. This is one of the toughest

[regnaD kciN]

2. Well, you won't see Snape, Lupin, Tonks, or Mad-Eye...

...but it wouldn't surprise me to see some further stories from Hogwarts or some of its characters -- just not Harry.

[FloridaJudy]

3. Actually, she left it quite open-ended.

What happens between the climax of the novel and the epilogue featuring many of the surviving characters nineteen years later could be rather interesting: we don't know what any of the characters (except the one who teaches at Hogwarts) do for a living. If any of them are aurors, that could be quite a story in itself.

Voldemort isn't the only evil wizard out there, after all. Remember the one Dumbledore defeated in a duel in 1945? It suggests that although Harry's personal "Professor Moriarty" has pretty much been laid to rest, there are still a host of Bad Guys eager to assume his place.

[badgerpup]

4. Um...Oh yeah. SPOILER ALERT!!!!

He jumps out a window in this one...ya gotta be paying attention, may not catch it till the second reading, because there's a helluva lot going on just then, but he really does snuff it.
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And this has COMPLETELY nothing to do with the above...
but isn't Kingsley Shacklebolt a grand name? :loveya:

[Reader Rabbit]

5. Of course we will!

That's the great thing about books! You can revisit beloved characters any time you want!

[Pithy Cherub]

6. Processing through it all.

Many many questions. One of my fave posts ever came after Half-Blood prince when you did the interpretation of my reading with:

yes, No, huh - Ick - OMG NO, Wow, Sob, LOL, yeah, what, NOOOOOOOOOO!

[Bjornsdotter]

7. Not so....

...we've still got 2 more movies (as bad as they may be),I always reread the books in order once a year and there's still fanfic....some of which is surprisingly good.

I can't decide if the door is really closed on sequels....oh not necessarily about Harry but maybe something in the HP universe.

Cheers

[Matilda]

8. J.K. Rowling was quoted last week as saying "Never say never".

She may bow to pressure further down the track.

I guess a lot will depend on what else she can write, and how other books will be received.

[XemaSab]

9. She's said that she might conseder a Potter Encyclopedia

with all the information about the characters that didn't make it into the books.

I'd be all over that. :D