From: amyg at nyc.rr.com <amyg>
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 11:22:33 -0400

Well, Rowling does plan to write it down in an encyclopedia at some point. Tolkien provided appendices at the end of RETURN OF THE KING which had a detailed precis of what happened to the remaining Nine Companions for the next 100 years or so, including family trees of all the hobbits and their children. GB Shaw's play PYGMALION has a detailed epilogue regarding Eliza's future--she marries Freddy and they eventually open up a successful grocery, mainly due to her business acumen and I think some funding from Pickering. I believe Shaw wrote it awhile after the play was published/performed, to refute all of the people who were convinced that Eliza eventually ended up with Higgins.

--Amy Goldschlager

----- Original Message ----- From: Wendy Lanehart <WLanehart at crrl.org> Date: Wednesday, August 8, 2007 11:16 am Subject: [CCBC-Net] HP7: horcruxes & backstory To: "'ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu'" <ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu>

>
>
> I remember DD explaining to Harry that as Voldemort made each
> horcrux, his soul literally became more divided and unstable. To
> me, he
> DOES get weaker, because as he divides his soul more and more, he
> becomesincreasingly disconnected with both his humanity and
> himself. The fact that
> he doesn't know when a horcrux has been destroyed underscores the
> fact that
> by making so many he has actually weakened himself and made himself
> vulnerable when he was trying to do the opposite. Also, he doesn't
> evenrealize he has made Harry a horcrux, which contributes to his
> downfall.Because no one has ever made more than one horcrux before,
> much less 7, I
> think it is kind of a murky area in the world of the book.
>
> Thanks to whomever recommended the interview with Rowling on
> Mugglenet; it did answer a lot of questions left unanswered at the
> end of
> the book, such as what everyone does with their later lives. As
> much as I
> like knowing, part of me feels like it's "cheating," as none of
> this is
> actually in any of the books, it's just backstory from Rowling's
> head. Am I
> being picky? Can you think of another author who shared extensive
> info on
> their books that wasn't actually IN any of the books?
>
> Wendy Lanehart
> Children's Librarian
> Central Rappahannock Regional Library
> Fredericksburg, Virginia
>
>
>
> I enjoyed Harry Potter 7 (indeed, the whole series, but if
> anybody else
>
> asks me, a writer, if I'm making as much money as Rowling, I shall
> hurl a
> Crucio spell at him or her). I was also confused about the wands
> until my
> husband explained them to me. :->
>
> However, I'm still puzzled by the horcruxes. It seems to me
> that as
> each is destroyed that Voldemort, losing parts of his soul, would get
> weaker
> and weaker. My husband says, "It's magic. Deal with it." But it
> still
> bothers me. Was anyone else troubled by this? Is this a better
> explanation that
> "it's magic"?
>
> Marilyn Singer
> _www.marilynsinger.net_ (http://www.marilynsinger.net)
>
>
>
>
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