As most of you have probably read on the homepage, JKR has said "If it comes as any consolation, I think that there will be plenty to continue arguing and speculating about, even after 'Deathly Hallows' comes out. So if you're not yet ready to quit the message boards, do not despair..." I don't know about all of you, but I was really hoping for resolution with DH. What will go un-explained? I am not sure that I find her statement comforting. I guess that I am just not the type of person who would like to spend eternity debating things for which I will never have a certain answer. What if it is important stuff? Am I the only person distraught by this?
P.S.: I started this as a new topic because I think that it is different than the ones that exist discussing our feelings about the final book and how we will feel when it is over in general. I would like to know what people think will be left to discuss now that we know there will be things left to discuss. Never the less, if I have started a topic in error, please except my apologies and close 'er down.

I can agree with you that I was hoping for a conclusion but maybe that's not what she means. Seeing as most of these topics are based on opinion, I guess we'll still be able to talk about what we thought or what we were hoping would happen. Sorry, I know that was a really lame point but whatever. I'm tired! Plus, will Harry Potter ever get boring? I don't think that we will ever run out of things to talk about when it comes to our favourite series!

I hope that this topic will continue on as I agree that it's different enough to be interesting on it's own. Funny thing, I did read that comment, but wasn't worried until you put it this way.

I wouldn't be upset to discuss people's motives for doing things, or even for complaining about things that happened that I didn't like. If it is unresolved items, I will definitely be upset!

Perhaps it will be little details, she couldn't possibly cover everything that we fanatic fans have thought about. Her world is so complex that there will have to be things that were not important to the end of the story that will go unanswered.

Maybe she will write that Hogwart's book that she has been asked about... giving information and background on people and places. She said that she might write something like Hogwart's a History as another book to raise money for charity. If she waits until we have time to talk and figure out what we want to know, she could raise a lot of money by answering our questions within that book.

Yeah, this topic is fine I'm going to move it into the JKR forum though, because it's going to get buried in here and it concerns the future of the fandom in general, so...

But yeah, I know what you mean. Unfortunately, it would be a bit too much to expect everything to be resolved. I mean, look at the X-Files - though they tried to wrap everything up, they didn't quite manage it, and there are still questions floating around now, five years after the show finished. HP isn't going to be any different, and while I am, for the most part, glad that most things are going to be explained, I'm also glad that some things will be left to interpretation because it'll keep boards like this, and the fandom in general, alive for a long time to come.

Just as long as she doesn't leave anything huge - like the certainty of Voldemort's fate, what side Snape was on after all, and whether the trio are all alive or dead - up in the air. I don't think she will, she'll never get any peace otherwise

I don't think that comment by JKR meant that there wouldn't be resolution to all the big things. But think about all of the topics on this board alone - could she ever really give a satisfactory answer to all of them? She has created an amazing, life-like world - like our own world (where we remain unable to answer everything we might ask), it is bound to contain some lose ends.

That's the way I took her comments.

When I first read that, I really was annoyed! I like speculating to some extent, but I also enjoy speculating when I know there are going to be answers! I do believe, like you guys seem to, that she will answer the big questions: Is Harry a Horcrux? Whose Side is Snape on? What Happens to Harry? Etc. It's probably in the little things that we'll still be left wondering. I think I'm okay with that. As long as I get major resolutions, I can live with not knowing why Salazar put a basalisk under the school. I can live with not knowing where Dumbleodre's London-underground scar came from. Of course, I don't really care to speculate on some of those things, either. It's an interestingly veiled comment; the likes of which she is known for. Give us a dash of hope and a sprinkle or two of uncertaintly. I do wonder what she's going to do when she's not as able to toy with our fragile fan emotions in the end!

She'll join all those forums that she didn't have time for whilst writing the books, anonamously ofcourse, with an IP address that if you took the time to check out would lead you a merry dance around the globe, before settling somewhere in outer mongolia. She'd be the annoying person that comes up with an amazing what if scenario that we all know should have been included in the books in the first place!!

I, do believe like everyone else that all the major issues will be resolved and leave all the niggling little things like, why didn't she explain what happened to all of those hats that dobby collected after Hermione so lovingly knitted them? (I don't really care by the way).

I am still hopeful for the encyclopedia of things that should have , could have happened, and peopleand things that she decided not to include.

That's the problem with big series such as this, you can't possibly cram every little unsaid explanation into the last book. It would just be too completely random. Jkr knows what needs to be tied up and all the little things that we can all live without knowing. I'm sure she'll tie up any lose ends on the big issues, but all those small little things we can still have fun debating about!

I suppose that's both a downfall and an up. We may never know, but if it keeps Vtm and the fandom world going then why should it matter?

I wonder though... She's obviously going to get flooded with questions about how the small things did end up turning out, maybe she'll tell us. Or just tease us!


That would be so incredibly interesting... I'd love to read some of her first ideas and some of the things that didn't make the cut. I would adore that!

I don't think she means any of the big things but there is no way she can possibly answer everything. It's probably just things like what someones Boggart is or...just things that aren't really all that important. I can live with it if she doesn't leave anything big, it's a good thing too cause the messageboards can keep going this way and Harry Potter can still be discussed and live on.
I'm sure she'd answer anything we really wanted to know though.