The new pre-epilogue

[sunnyskywalker]

Excerpt here.

Maybe Pottermore members can fill us on on what's in the rest of "Rita's" article?

I have to wonder what they have added to the wizarding world's water supply. Remember how wizards used to be fickle creatures, capable of going from hero-worship to deep suspicion and hatred based on a few gossip columns or rumors in the halls? No longer!

As the crowd stampeded, tents were flattened and small children mown down. Fans from all corners of the globe stormed towards the area where members of Dumbledore’s Army were rumoured to have been sighted, desperate above all else for a glimpse of the man they still call the Chosen One.

Since Harry is about to turn 34, this is roughly 16 years after the DA did its thing. That they're still famous for being the DA, and Auroring and whatever else is clearly a distant, secondary consideration, suggests that they haven't really done anything all that newsworthy lately. (I would bet on the cut being from a game of pickup Quidditch with Ron & co. or something equally boring.) Yet they're excited enough to see Harry that Rita can spin it into a stampede?

There must have been nothing happening at all in the WW for the last 16 years. I guess they really do disappear when Rowling isn't looking.

Comments

[vermouth1991.livejournal.com]

Re: Lily II

I think she stayed at home to draw or read books, I'd like to think she'd inherited some real brains for a change. :)

[oryx_leucoryx]

Some traits are known to skip a generation or two. Maybe she had an ancestor with actual brains we never met.

[jana-ch.livejournal.com]

I'm with you. My new headcanon is that Lily-Lu is hates sports, both magical and muggle. She likes reading fiction and poetry, and is quite good at drawing. In a few years, a teacher at muggle school will discover she has a real gift for music. She eventually talks her parents into letting her attend Beauxbatons because Hogwarts has no art or music program. The bonus is that she gets away from her emotionally incestuous extended family with their inexpressably tedious fondness for "pranking" her.

[vermouth1991.livejournal.com]

That's a great vision. Strangely enough, in the fanfics I'd read where the author cares to delve into extracurricular activities in Hogwarts students, almost every time there'd be classical mucic practise or even Shakespearian theater practice and performances.

[jana-ch.livejournal.com]

In another version of my headcanon, Headmaster Snape (of course he survives! Did we ever see a body?), besides bringing discipline to that madhouse of a school, introduces mandatory classes in math, science, literature, and genuine history, along with programs in art, music, and sports that more than a couple dozen people can play--say, soccer for a team sport and tennis for individuals. Lily-Lu would have no problem going to that school.

[vermouth1991.livejournal.com]

Then I recommend you to read "Two hawks Hunting" by Snapegirl of HarryPotterFanfiction (she's Snapegirlkmf on ff dot net), it's a continuation of a Severitus AU started in "Broken Wings" and in chapter 47 a de-powered Dumbledore (he sacrificed all his magic and almost died in order to save a group of students held hostage) makes Severus his successor as Headmaster, and Snape introduces various educational reforms. That fic also introduced a very moving SS/OFC romance, and the lady only appeared in flashback so far!

[sunnyskywalker]

Oh, I like that headcanon!