Haven't seen this mentioned much

[the-bitter-word.livejournal.com]

It is the crackiest DH alternate ending ever -- and it's purportedly from Rowling herself. Quoting from New York, "In this version, Harry defeats Voldemort with a time-reversing spell that eventually freezes the Dark Lord as a child in his parents' embrace, and the epilogue is even more controversial: Harry is the headmaster at Hogwarts, Ginny turned herself into a bird instead of growing old (totally normal behavior), and their great-great grandson, 'Tom,' has evil stirrings."

If this was from Rowling, she was channeling the twins and doing a good job of pulling the guy's leg. On the other hand, claiming it's from her gets a lot of readers for his fanfic -- not that the story's been widely reported.

Another link while I'm here:

Here's a writer who, after more investment than most readers, realizes she is wholly-underwhelmed by the books, and wonders why those who analyze the books or participate in fandom even bother (without providing an answer). Some of it's a cheap attack on fans from a person who claims to be ordinary but clearly feels superior. Even so, I can recognize myself as one of her targets, and it's kind-of amusing. I'll probably look for the critical book she was reading.

I hope this is OK. If not, mod, please delete.

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[madderbrad.livejournal.com]

I fully appreciate and agree with your comment. I wasn't privy to much of the industry going into unravelling the pre-DH puzzle - mainly just the MOST IMPORTANT THING OF ALL, the SHIPPING :-) - but yes, it's quite sad now to think of all that wasted intelligence, across the globe, which accepted in good faith Rowling's hints and implications that there would be a clever grand plan unveiled at the end that explained everything. Only to see with DH that she hadn't had a clue when she was encouraging them all along. So sad.

It's a shame much of it went into explaining how deep Rowling's work was when she just proved it wasn't.

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