UPDATED : 01/08/07 11:24 IST
Added Hogwarts, and Finer Points...
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Tejas
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Facts that JKR Told after the release of HPATDH. All info here is courtesy of MSNBC's Wild about Harry section and Mugglenet's Transcript of the Live Chat with J. K. Rowling.
Future of Main Characters :-
Harry :- Auror Department at the Ministry of Magic. After all these years, Harry is now the department head.
Ron :- Auror Department at the Ministry of Magic
Here's what JKR had to add.
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"Harry and Ron utterly revolutionized the Auror Department, They are now the experts. It doesn't matter how old they are or what else they've done."
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Hermione :- Hermione began her post-Hogwarts career at the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, where she was instrumental in greatly improving life for house-elves and their ilk. She then moved (despite her jibe to Scrimgeour) to the Dept. of Magical Law Enforcement.
Ginny :- After a few years as a celebrated player for the Holyhead Harpies, Ginny retired to have her family and to become the Senior Quidditch correspondent at the Daily Prophet!
Luna :- Luna became a very famous wizarding naturalist who discovered and classified many new species of animals (though, alas, she never did find a Crumple-Horned Snorkack and had, finally, to accept that her father might have made that one up 😆 ). She ended up marrying (rather later than Harry & co) a fellow naturalist and grandson of the great Newt Scamander (Rolf)!
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For those who don't know Newt Scamander is the pen name under which JKR published a companion volume "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" he's a writes of school books in the Potterverse (like Bathilda Bagshot, Lockhart 😉 😛 etc.)
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Neville :- Professor of Herbology at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
JKR says 'I like to imagine Neville showing his DA Fake Galleon to his admiring pupils', like a badge or a medal of honour - proof that the owner had been at the heart of the fight against Voldemort from the start! 😉 cool eh!
What Happens to the Secondary Characters?
Firenze :- He's more than happily accepted back into the herd, and Bane and Magorian realize and accept that Firenze's choice to help Dumbledore in the first place was not shameful, but honourable.
Why Fawkes Never Came Back in Book 7:- have it JKR's own words,
Something had to leave the school for good when Dumbledore died, and I decided that would be Fawkes. Dumbledore was a very great and irreplacable man, and the loss of Fawkes (and the fact that he was 'non-transferable'!) expresses this symbolically
Ben Kingsley :- He became the permanant Minister of Magic. The Ministry of Magic was de-corrupted, and with Kingsley at the helm the discrimination that was always latent there was eradicated.
Lucius Malfoy :- The Malfoys weaseled their way out of trouble (again) due to the fact that they colluded (albeit out of self-interest) with Harry at the end of the battle.
Severus Snape :- The absence of Snape's portrait in the headmasters office in the last scene was deliberate. Snape had effectively abandoned his post before dying, so he had not merited inclusion in these august circles.
However, JKR adds 'I like to think that Harry would be instrumental in ensuring that Snape's portrait would appear there in due course.'
Hogwarts :- Nineteen years after the Battle of Hogwarts, the school for witchcraft and wizardry is led by an entirely new headmaster ("McGonagall was really getting on a bit") as well as a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. That position is now as safe as the other teaching posts at Hogwarts, since Voldemort's death broke the jinx that kept a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor from remaining for more than a year.
While Rowling didn't clarify whether Harry, Ron and Hermione ever return to school to finish their seventh year, she did say she could see Harry popping up every now and again to give the "odd talk" on Defense Against the Dark Arts.
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Why was Draco the true owner of the Elder Wand?
Voldemort thinks that he becomes the true owner of the Elder Wand by stealing it from Dumbledore's grave, but in the end we learn that the true owner was really Draco Malfoy, that is until Harry defeated him and allegiance transferred to Harry. How did Draco become the true owner of the Elder Wand?
"To truly own the Elder Wand, which means to receive the full benefits, double-edged though it is, of all its power, you have to have conquered the previous owner," explained Rowling.
At the end of Book 6, "Half-Blood Prince," Draco disarmed Dumbledore before Snape killed Dumbledore.
"And that meant he conquered him, even though Dumbledore was very weak at the time, he was very ill. He was on the point of collapse when it happened," Rowling said. "Dumbledore didn't want to lose his wand at that point and Draco disarmed him. So that meant that the wand gave Draco its allegiance, even though Draco never knew it, even though Draco never touched it.
"From that moment on, that wand gave its allegiance to Draco, and it wouldn't work as well for anyone but Draco."
When Harry wrestles Draco's "everyday" wand out of his hand at the Malfoy's mansion, he conquers Draco, and therefore the Elder Wand — hidden in Dumbledore's tomb at the time — transfers its allegiance to Harry.
Rowling said her American editor suggested the moment when Harry conquers Draco should be more dramatic.
"But, no, I really wanted, very consciously, for the history of the wizarding world to hinge on this moment where two teenage boys have a physical [fight]. They don't even do it by magic," Rowling said.
"That sort of puts all of Voldemort's and Dumbledore's grandiose plans in their place, doesn't it? You just can't plan that well, that something can go wrong and it went wrong … It went wrong because Harry managed to pull this wand out of Draco's grip.
How did Neville get the Sword of Gryffindor?
In "Deathly Hallows," Griphook the goblin claims that Godric Gryffindor stole his sword from the goblins and Griphook, in turn, steals the sword from Harry, Ron and Hermione in Gringotts. So how does Neville pull the sword from the Sorting Hat during the Battle of Hogwarts?
"Now we can reveal that Griphook was wrong," Rowling said. The sword was truly Gryffindor's and he didn't steal it … Its first allegiance always was to a worthy Gryffindor, and it was going to come back when someone really, really needed it. And it came back to Neville."
Is Snape good or evil?
After seven years at Hogwarts, we finally learn that Severus Snape, albeit somewhat grudgingly, has always been working to protect Harry. But is he really a good person?
"I don't really see him as a hero," Rowling said. "He's not an unequivocally good character … He's a complicated man."
Rowling said Snape is bitter, spiteful and a bully, but he is also immensely brave and capable of love.
"As we know from the epilogue, Harry really sees the good in Snape ultimately … there's redemption," Rowling said. "I wanted there to be redemption and I wanted there to be forgiveness. And Harry forgives, even knowing that till the end Snape loathes him unjustifiably."
Why 19 years later?
Of all the time in the Harry's life that you could have chosen to set the epilogue, why 19 years later?
"I didn't want some people to have children too young because I don't think that's good," Rowling said. "So 19 years was just enough time for the next generation to have reached the point I wanted them to reach when the Hogwarts Express is departing."
There is no significance to the number, no magical explanation. At the Battle of Hogwarts Ron and Hermione are 18 and Harry is 17, and Rowling said she wanted them to have some peaceful time before they started having children.
"I don't want to encourage teenage pregnancies," Rowling said, laughing. "It couldn't be much earlier than 19."
Are Harry and Voldemort Related : Yes through the Peverells.
Why is it that albus dumbledore can see harry under his invisibility cloak at certain moments? (during the series is the cloak only infallible to those who do not own a deathly hallow).
Dumbledore, who could perform magic without needing to say the incantation aloud, was using 'homenum revelio', the human-presence-revealing spell Hermione makes use of in Deathly Hallows.
What or who is peeves exactly, is he linked with the blood barons story?
No, Peeves is not linked to the bloody Baron's story. He is a spirit of chaos that entered the building long ago and has proved impossible to eradicate!
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