If you could change who married who and what happened to the characters 19 years later. Jobs? How many children- childrens named? Squibs? marriages? divorces/ unlikey get togethers?

I'm not much into ships, and I felt that Jo did a good job with the epilogue. However, the end was to me a little too perfect, and I felt she didn't tie all the loose ends thoroughly enough. I wanted Ron and Hermione to get together, and Harry and Ginny too. But to take those two relationships:

Ron and Hermione - Why must everyone have these vast amounts of children, for me I always felt a bit like if Ron and Hermione were to be together, they would not have any children.

Harry and Ginny - Again, what's up with having so many kids? Well, if everyones having all these children, then at least name them properly. Albus Severus? I just got to say it again, that name is awful! All right, the wizarding world has a different view on what's a normal name, but honestly? And I know Snape was indeed good after all, but for me he was still a rather obnoxious and unpleasant person. But then again, all great people have different sides of themselves.

I don't really know what else to comment, other than that I was very moved to see Lupin and Tonks' son being treated to nicely, and just the fact that he was there made the epilogue much better. I missed people like George and Percy, but I suppose the chapter would've been much badder had it not been for the fact that Jo kept to the key persons.
Again, I overall enjoyed all of the book, and felt it was Jo's best one, so far.

If I wrote the epilogue it would have been Harry and Hermione with two kids, Ron and Luna with one kid, and Ginny and Neville with one kid. Harry and Hermione would have a girl named Haley and a boy named Henry. Ron and Luna would have a boy named Fred. Neville and Ginny would have a daughter named Samantha. I just basically put down random names.

I wouldn't have changed much, Harry and Ginny would still be married, as would Ron and Hermione, and they all would have had the same kids, except Hugo would have been named something different. However, I would have put Luna and Neville together, with one kid, a girl.

I think Jo did a great job...I do hate the name Hugo, though.
I would have put in something unexpected, just two not-main characters getting together...
I love all the canon ships, for the most part. I think it would have been nice, though, if Draco had married someone from...well maybe not Gryffindor or Hufflepuff, but maybe Ravenclaw.

I was also very happy to see Tonks and Lupin's son, as well as Victorie (although i didn't understand at first whose daugher she was)

If I wrote the epilogue...hehe....it would be way different.

Harry and Ginny would have dated again for a year or two but broken up shortly afterward because there just wasn't any chemistry.

Ron and Hermione would have lasted longer and gotten engaged, but Hermione would get cold feet and leave him because she didn't feel that she was marrying the right man.

Ron, although heartbroken, will eventually move on and after some encouraging words from Luna, he falls in love again, not sure who though.

Luna and Dean would have gotten together after DH, gotten married, and no kids for them.

Ginny will marry Neville, and they will have two kids.

And through it all, Harry and Hermione would have finally found eachother. Ron would be upset because he had loved Hermione, but he would realize that they were meant to be and he had always knew and seen it coming. It was inevitable. And all three would live on as the Trio. Oh, and they would have one child, as they too were both only childs.

I don't care what the kids names would be. I have several scenarios of how the series could have ended. It just wouldn't have ended with all these sappy, unrealistic pairs.

Ohhh, I like your epilogue UnknownLocket, a lot better than the one in the book!

If I had written the epilogue, these would have been the changes:

First, there would be no H/G at all. Ginny would have been killed in the battle at Hogwarts. Naturally, Harry would have been grief stricken, but he would eventually have gotten over it.

Ron and Hermione would have dated for a year, but then they would have decided together that they were better suited as friends than as boy/girlfriend.

Ron and Luna would eventually get together and marry. They would have one son and they would name him Harry.

Neville would remain a life long bachelor, and he would eventually become the Headmaster at Hogwarts.

Harry and Hermione would realize that they had always been in love with each other and would end up marrying after they had chosen their professions (she an attorney and he an Auror). They would have a daughter named Lilly and a son named James. Not original, but what the hey!

I'd make other changes, but this is my short list.

Lol, I forgot about adding more deaths in my epilogue. Well, since you can never have too many scenarios, in one of mine Ginny definately would have lost her life. Bellatrix would have been the one to kill her. Instead of that spell nearly missing her, it would have hit her dead on. Molly already kills Bellatrix in the books so why not have her kill her for a reason.

Also, in another scenario, I would have liked it if Harry had died a hero's death and not live to make it to the epilogue. He would have sacrificed himself since he realized that he was an horcrux and Hermione, Ron and Neville would have shared the glory of killing Voldemort. Ron and Hermione would have married in this epilogue and Ginny would have moved on.

i am really confused with someone... the one teddy was kissing?
who is victorie???

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Okay. First of all, Victoire is Bill and Fleur's daughter. That's who Teddy was kissing.

Hm... In my epilogue, Harry wouldn't be as happy. He would definitely be happy enough to laugh and love his children, but he would be a bit busy dealing with dark wizards. Ginny would still be his wife.

Hermione and Ron would not have named their kids Rose and Hugo. Rose, okay, I'm fine with that name, but not Hugo. Hugo's name would be something else. Something less random. Like... What if they named him Remus, after Lupin? That would have been nice. It just doesn't seem right to have such a random name. That's why I like the names of Harry and Ginny's kids better.

They wouldn't be at the Hogwarts Express in my epilogue. Instead, they would be at some family celebration. Seriously, I don't always enjoy the cheerful moods of scenes at Kings Cross.

Oh my, this could be a very long post. I really didn't like much about the Epilogue, so I would change a lot. Here I go.

First, for the marriages. These are really only the ones that are mentioned.

Ron and Hermione would still have gotten married. In my opinion, they are perfect for each other and I'm very happy they're together.

Neville would have married Luna, and not Hannah. Luna and Neville are so perfect for each other! They have so much in common and they were such good friends!

As far as Harry, I actually would have preferred it if he had died in the end. A hero's death, granted. But I never could see him getting married. Let alone to Ginny. That's just awkward. Even if he lived, I wouldn't have him get with Ginny. Not Cho either, but somebody else entirely, or just remain single. Ginny would just move on and marry someone else.

I love George and Angelina together! I was so excited when I found out that they got married. Angelina was friends with Fred and George, so she'd be able to help George get through Fred's death. It's so sweet.

I think Draco should have married a character that was mentioned more than once in the books. Maybe Parvati or something, but not Pansy. Eww.

As for kids, oh dear!

I'm not happy with how many kids any of the characters had or their kids names. Almost all of them were named after somebody. That's not a bad thing, but some of them went a little too far. "Albus Severus"? "James Sirius"? "Lily Luna"? Nope. I don't like them. Just 'Lily' would be fine for a first name, but all the kids are named after someone. 'Rose' is fine. It's different which I like. I just don't like the name 'Hugo'. 'Fred' was fine for George's son. That name works, but the others just bother me. And all the families were politically correct! They all had 1,2 or 3 kids. I'm so sick of that! The Weasley's had the largest family in the whole series and I think some of them would have more kids than the amounts of 1,2 and 3.

It should be like this.

Harry and Ginny would have had three boys and one girl. The girl could have been named 'Lily', but her middle name would have been different. And they boys would have all had different names. One of them could be named 'James' but the others would be names like, Matthew or William or Brian or maybe Ethan.

Ron and Hermione would have had a lot more kids than just two. I can see them both loving kids and having fun with them. I can see them with five or six kids at least. A mix of boys and girls. 'Rose' is a fine name, but 'Hugo' has to go. Maybe names like, Caroline, Elizabeth, Kyle, Michael, and Andrew. But they would definitely have a large family.

If Luna and Neville had gotten married they would be the ones who had maybe one or two kids and they would probably be weird names. I don't really care so much about them.

I can see George and Angelina having more than two kids too. But I'm not so picky about them.

There's most of my version of the Epilogue. I got a bit carried away it seems.

I hated the epilogue. I know the series had to be wrapped up and concluded, but the manner in which it was done seemed so cheesy. This was easily my least favourite part of the entire series. It seemed so rushed. I would have rather had no epilogue at all. It seemed like a rather lame and disappointing ending to what was really an exhilarating and epic series.

OMG, that had me laughing! You're right, why so many kids, in some cases? But I think Ron and Hermione without kids had been lots sadder! People should have at least one kid if they have the chance, or at least adopt. Makes your life lots complicated, but also makes you grow up!

I find hilarious when people say the epilogue was cheesy, no offense to anyone. Cheesy would have been this:

"He'll be all right."
"I know he will."
"Harry, maybe I haven't told you after all these years... but I love you more than you could think."
"I know you do." Harry smiled and kissed Ginny on her forehead. "Let's go home now." And taking Lily's hand, Harry gave a last glance to the train, away now, and waved Ron and Hermione goodbye.

Anyway, I wouldn't have changed very much because that impression people have about that Ron/Hermione-and-Harry/Ginny-fans-want-to-make-the-OBHWF is false: I will always support the Friends way: everybody thought Phoebe and Joey were the last ones left, they ought to get married, and it happened that Phoebe found someone else who could make her happy. I think Rolf is a good match for Luna, and it's completely irrelevant that we don't know the guy. Were we supposed to?

However, I wouldn't have matched George with Angelina, because... she apparently dated his brother! Being so many OCs and Hogwarts classmates, I don't get why Angelina.

And Percy and Penelope would have shown us that Percy wasn't that git and at least could get back with an old love.

There's a lot of HP/HG in here. Of course canon ships too. O___o

In my personal opinion it was better without any epilogue. I would have left it openended, free for all fanfic writers to peruse and pursue. ^______^ Because obviously my personal interests would otherwise interfere leaving others who may not see it my way disheartened and perhaps even angry.

To me, the battle scene was pretty much perfect as the ending. Really.

I don't understand this "too many kids" complaint. Ron and hermione have TWO kids and that is "too many" for some. Her being an only child, I can understand Hermione wanting more than one kid. Him having grown up in very crowded and poverty stricken circumstances because of the raft of kids his parents produced, I can understand Ron wanting to stop at two. Two kids is probably the optimum number for Ron and Hermione and permits Hermione to have a productive career.

Hugo as a name, I don't understand unless it is a "legacy name" from the Weasley or Granger families. The rights to the naming of a kid as "Fred Weasley" would be reserved by the Weasley family to his surviving twin, George, and Ron would have respected that in the naming of his son.

Harry, starved as he was for family, would have wanted as many kids as his wife was willing to have. Other than the middle name "Luna", Harry's kids carry legacy names from his lost family and mentors.

I'm with you, Hermod! Who else has had too many kids? Only Fleur and Bill, but I've always thought Bill was kinda the successful guy, and since Fleur used to work as well, they maybe had the resources to raise 3 kids, which isn't a lot anyway. Poor Harry deserved at least 3 kids, and all the others had only two. I would have liked to have some information about Charlie, because I was like... after all that macho thing I'd imagined, what if he's gay and we didn't find out?

In names, I think Harry and Ginny were very sweet in naming their children after their loved ones (well, after Harry's loved ones, which is awesome). The names doesn't match at all, but... it's sweet anyway.
I've read that Hugo was Fred's middle name, yet it hasn't been confirmed. Anyway, Hugo is a different version of Hugh (we use that version, in fact), and against everybody's opinion... I love it!



What do you mean in there? I think, despite yes, the battle scene and Harry's phrase is great and touching, the book and fans deserved an epilogue, but above all, the author deserved to write the epilogue of her own book, so I'm against everybody who claims that JK Rowling isn't right... about her own book. Am I out of place? I think she wrote what she wanted to write, no one forced her to do it so, so the woman deserved to write an ending to the work that has made her life and many other fans' lives as well. Those who might feel disheartened or angry with the ending, should then rip off the epilogue of the book and write their own story, but they can't fight against a whole seven books lenght story, so epilogue or not... 'the path is laid'.

Ok, I didn't really like the epilouge so I would change alot.

I think that Ginny would have married Neville, call me crazy but I think they suit each other plus they went to the ball together and like each other.

I think Harry would have stayed single and just focused on helping to bring up Teddy. He would probably be pretty busy with his Auror work as well and being Harry wouldn 't want to endanger a possible family by having a load of dark wizards trying to hnt them down.

Ron and Hermione would still marry each other cause I have to admit they do go well together although Harry and Hermione would have been an ok pairing. I didn't really like their kids names...Rose was alright but I can't think of a substitute so I wont put one.

Luna would marry Dean being as though they seemed to be veering off in that direction toward the end of the seventh book and I think he is one of the few men who would respect her, excluding Harry Ron and Neville of course cause they are her friends, but everyone else would likely think her a bit of a weirdo. I love her.

I think Draco could have easily married Cho because...well they have vaguely simiilair personalities in the way that they are both very vain although I think their relashionship would go beyond just good looks and they would be able to confer their traumatic child hoods and build something solid on all the chaos. Draco's child would probably be called something like Vinnie but Scorpius is an original name which he would definitly be.

I don't think there are "too many kids" although that is comming from a girl who has four brothers and sisters, two was just right for Ron and Hermione and I think Ginny would have only wanted one or two, three is stretching it a bit but being as though in my world she doesn't marry Harry I think she would have had two with Neville as Neville was an only child and Ginny was one of many mimicing the Ron/Hermione thing.

so.....yeah...there you go.

Oh, I don't mean to say that she shouldn't have written an epilogue, heavens no, it's her story she has every right. Ms. Rowling introduced us into the world after all, it would be an act of great selfishness to bar her from finishing it as she wanted.

All I meant to say was that personally, if I wrote the epilogue the ending would be left at the battle. It just seems right to me. Some books are just better if you leave them at a certain questioning point and this was one of the ones that I feel would have been fine. The epilogue did too much of a concrete....something or other. The time skip was jarring for me. Just my opinion.

Not to be a bit off topic here...sorry.

Okay I reread the epilogue and remembered how much I hate it.

First, Ron and Hermione would have divorced. Ginny and Harry would never have been together. (because I mean.. it's even worse than R/Hr) So Harry and Hermione would have married and have one child. The child's name would be... Faith. 'Cause Harry and Hermione always had faith in eachother and I'm bad at choosing names.

Ginny would have been single, 'cause I can't think of anyone she could be with. (I am a D/G shipper but I would never write D/G in the epilogue.)

Draco would have been single, or married some pure-blood girl from his house. XD

Ron would also have married some pure-blood girl. 'Cause I can't picture the Weasley's not being pure-blood. Don't know why.

Neville would be teaching Herbology at Hogwarts. He would have married Luna, because I don't know anyone else he could have married. NOT Hannah and definitely NOT Ginny. Because I love Neville and I hate Hannah and Ginny. Anyway, Luna and Neville would have two kids. One with a weird name and one with... a not so weird name. XD

Luna would marry Neville, and they'd probably call their children Frank, Alice and whatever Luna's mother was called. JK Rowling has stated that Neville married Hannah Abbot, but if I were her I'd have either killed Hannah off or she'd have married Ernie Macmillan.
Katie Bell would become Headmistress of Salem Witches Institute.

Cho would probably realise she was bisexual and marry her friend Marietta.

It honestly didn't bother me who was together. I mean I ADORED Ron and Hermione together and I was happy with Ginny and Harry.

I just assumed that they were all aurors actually. At least Harry. Hermione obviously wasn't a teacher but she probably did something that had to do with knowledge at the ministry. Maybe she wrote her own book or owned a bookstore! But I think they all worked for the ministry.

Anyway, I know a lot of people don't like the epilogue but I thought it ended really well. I mean there were a few things I was wondering about that weren't mentioned but it was nice to know how they were later on in life.

I really liked who everybody was with and I really liked the names of the children. Hugo was a little random, but I liked it. The only person that I would change who they end up with is Luna. I wanted her to be with Neville!

OH ALSO! Draco would have married Pansy, but I'm not sure if he would've been very happy. It seemed like she loved him wayyy more than he loved her.

and i always thought Neville and Luna would end up together. and Luna would continue the legacy of the Quibbler. And Neville would keep the job he has as herbology teacher; although what happened to Professor Sprout? Did she die or retire or something?

I would have
Luna and Neville- 2 kids
Hermione and Draco- 3 kids
Blaise and Ginny-2 kids
Ron and a way toned down Lavender- 3-4 kids
And i really dont know who to have Harry with i dont like Cho so not her, maybe one of the patil girls or even Pansy.

I wasnt very happy this the epilogue because i dont like R/Hr and im not a big fan of H/G it was a good ending but just not with the right people together.

I like how the epilogue was done. I dont think idd change the outcome but i would add a couple of things. One would be that i might have elaborted a bit more on Ted and Victorie. i dont think they said who her parents were. Ialso would have added in Neville and Luna's kid. I would have to say the kid would be a daughter and that they would have named her after Lunas mother. I think thats about it that i would add.

All in all i throughly enjoyed the epilogue. i espacially like Harry's son's name. Albus Severus, awesome name. Two of the best characters in the books. I thought it was a nice touch that Harry named him after the two headmasters. And one of the bravest men he had ever known!