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

[dracasadiablo.livejournal.com]

Oh, and how does the "half-werewolf" thing works?
What is a half-werewolf anyway? Is that just somebody like Bill? Just born with a bit of wolf blood and not bitten? Or is it something more? And is it something people use to look down at Teddy? Or are werewolves now accepted? Because Rita is using it as a reason for him not to be trusted. "Half-werewolf" and "wild boy" that should be kept at "tighter rein" or else "one shudders to think what will become of Master Lupin without urgent intervention"? He's even "lurking" in "dark corners". And parents of any girl that's attracted to him should be worried? That sure sounds like "WW : We still hate werewolves" to me. But I must be wrong. Harry told us "all is well" so I'm sure WW is an Utopia of acceptance now.

[nx74defiant.livejournal.com]

Harry told us "all is well"

Well Harry is happy - what else matters?

[sunnyskywalker]

Silly us, wanting things like "context" and "facts" when she throws out terms like this... Everything is totally better now, except for how every time a character opens their mouths it sounds like it's exactly the same, but since she refuses to give enough information you only have hints and insinuations rather than solid evidence. Blech.