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Harry Potter after the epilogue July 27, 2007

Major spoilers. Don’t read if you haven’t finished the book.

But if you have, then read on.

J.K. Rowling has given out details on events after the final epilogue in an interview with TODAY’s Meredith Vieira. She reveals, for example, that Harry and Ron work at the Auror Department for the Ministry of Magic but it’s a totally revolutionized place. And Hermione, with her brainpower, places high up in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement.

Luna Lovegood is still eccentric but now comes to realizes that her father might have been wrong about those Crumple-Horned Snorkacks and Umgubular Slashkilters. Still, she travels the world to look for all kinds of interesting creatures.

And JK Rowling acknowledges a “bit of a pull” between Luna and Neville Longbottom, whose grandmother had finally accepted as a gifted wizard.

There’s a new Hogwarts headmaster and Harry pops in at the school sometimes to give an “odd talk” about Defense against the Dark Arts.

Rowling even says she may reveal more in a Harry Potter encyclopedia; she’s not writing it anytime time soon, though.

More on JK Rowling’s revelations.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows July 22, 2007

We got our copy of the seventh Harry Potter book Saturday afternoon and I read well into the night and morning (of Sunday), too, by the way.

I finally finished it this morning, despite my 4-year-old son’s admonitions for me to “stop studying (which he equates with reading)”, and overall I think it is a fitting end to JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series.

The controversial spoilers that came out a day or two before the book’s simultaneous release, which I read by the way (I guess I’m not that of a fanatic), have it all wrong. The photo of the book cover and the titles of the chapters were correct but they couldn’t have been more wrong about the gist of the story.