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]

@kycoo
Thank you for understanding. I was a member of an HP forum, and about a year ago I made a comparison with Nicholas Sparks (who i cannot stand) and Qiong Yao, the author of the mopey "period piece" 还珠格格, and said that he wrote like a middle-aged woman. That incurred that wrath of many other members and I got the virtual treatment of eggs and tomatoes before I apologized for being sexist with my words.

I should've just sticked with the old "he writes like my grandmudder" routine.

Good thing I didn't use the term "retarded" or something, I knew it was offensive but didn't know that it's "ableist" offensive.

So, no, I've become very careful when labeling other people. In fact I sometimes think I've gone over to the other extreme and cannot express myself with conviction and a sense of deserved finality anymore.

[kycoo.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha I never would have drawn that comparison myself, but now that you mention it, Nicholas Sparks and Qiong Yao do have the same flair for dramatic love stories that are extremely cheesy but also popular with the masses and occasionally tear-inducing.

[vermouth1991.livejournal.com]

I wish I can claim originality but I can't, I got that comparison from the "Honest Trailers" clip for "The Notebook", when some of my compatriots ripped it off Youtube and added Chinese subtitles before uploading it onto 优酷, the translation for narration "From Sappy Author Nicholas Sparks" had an extra footnote behind the name: "This guy's like Qiong Yao only he's American."