h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Well, they redeem the series, but Book 4 is still quite terrible.

Does one need to finish the last year of Hogwarts in order to work for the Ministry--to be an auror, for instance? If so, then I think we can assume that Harry somehow went back to finish his studies.

Or that the surviving teachers gave him a pass, either on Snape's or Dumbledore's orders.

I think "killing Lord Voldemort twice" gets you an automatic high score on the DADA NEWT.

That sounds like good reasoning.

I still don't have a clue what Ginnys doing.

Ginny? At which point?

In the Epilogue. Her career. I can't imagine her as a stay at home mom like Molly.

Home can be plenty exciting when your kids aren't in boarding school. But didn't Rawling give a post-epilogue epilogue in an interview or two? I had the link in my email somewhere. I might be able to dig it up.

Rowling said the world was a sunnier, happier place after the seventh book and the death of Voldemort.

Harry Potter, who always voiced a desire to become an Auror, or someone who fights dark wizards, was named head of the Auror Department under the new wizarding government headed by his friend and ally, Kingsley Shacklebolt.

His wife, Ginny Weasley, stuck with her athletic career, playing for the Holyhead Harpies, the all-female Quidditch team. Eventually, Ginny left the team to raise their three children -- James, Albus and Lily -- while writing as the senior Quidditch correspondent for the wizarding newspaper, the Daily Prophet.

Harry's best friend Ron Weasley joined his brother, George, as a partner at their successful joke shop, Weasley's Wizard Wheezes. Hermione Granger, Ron's wife and the third person of the series' dark wizard fighting trio, furthered the rights of subjugated creatures, such as house elves, in the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures before joining the magical law enforcement squad. The couple had two children -- Rose and Hugo.

Luna Lovegood, Harry's airily distracted friend with a love for imaginary animals who joins the fight against Voldemort in the Order of the Phoenix, becomes a famous wizarding naturalist who eventually marries the grandson of Newt Scamander, author of "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them."

And what Muggle, or non-wizard, song would have been played at the funeral of Albus Dumbledore, the most brilliant and talented wizard the world had ever known?

"Surely 'I Did It My Way' by Frank Sinatra," Rowling told her fans, referring to the song "My Way," written by Paul Anka but popularized by Sinatra, among other singers.
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As the chat wrapped up, Rowling thanked readers for their loyalty to the series.

"What can I say? Thank you so much for sticking with me, and with Harry, for so long. You have made this an incredible journey for Harry's author."

Thanks for that, I'd heard just about all of them but Ginny for some reason.

I got a big kick out of Draco Malfoy's Fiendfire being responsible for the destruction of one of the Horcruxes.