Also, nobody got past first base (unless you count everyone having kids nineteen years later).
On 7/23/07, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:
Spoilers ahead. Proceed at your own risk.
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> Nobody died except Lord Voldomort, which everyone had expected, and a
> few minor characters, to whom nobody had ever paid any real attention.
> Albus Dumbledore came back from the dead, sort of, and it turned out
> that Snape, the villain of several volumes, had been a good guy the
> whole time. Harry and Ginny married, as did Ron and Hermione, and
> they all had armies of kids, who marched off to Hogwarts in keeping
> with the traditions of their class. And, of course, they all lived
> happily ever after, or at least for nineteen years, which is where the
> epilogue leaves us.
>
> Here's what I'm wondering:
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> 1. In the end, Hogwarts students and faculty defeated Voldemort and
> his army of Death Eaters. Does J.K. Rowling, a former Amnesty
> International employee (and reportedly an old University of Exeter
> Trotskyite) really consider academia the revoluationary class?
>
> 2. About the goblins, who are bankers, and jewelers, and apparently
> believe that all wealth in the world rightfully belongs to them: Are
> they supposed to be Jews, or what? Which is not to say they are, but
> they resemble the stereotype at least as much as Watto from the last
> three Star Wars.
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> On 7/22/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> > Ok, so what happened with Harry Potter? A friend reports that he was
> > gang-raped by dwarves, but achieved some sort of philosophical uplift
> > from the experience, but I'm guessing this is a fabrication? Did the
> > little hellspawn die or what? Google is offering no help.
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> > My sister-in-law told me that Harvard Sq was closed off on Friday
> > night for the HP release nonsense, and it was filled with people in
> > costume. I also hear that hipster Brooklyn is overrun with people
> > wearing capes & glasses reading that doorstop of a book. What's up
> > with this anyway?
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