[donaldscrankshaw] Donald: More Potter?

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Posted by Donald:
More Potter?
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   Spoiler alert! There are spoilers to Harry Potter and the Deathly
   Hallows in this post, including to some of what appears in the
   epilogue, but they really aren't too bad.
   Over at [1]the Corner, [2]John Podhoretz believes that J.K. Rowling
   will be writing a new Harry Potter book sometime in the future.
   Although that may be a bit misleading--his contention is that she'll
   write another book in the same world, even if it's not actually about
   Harry. [3]John Hood suggests it may be a prequel. I'm not so sure
   about that. A large part of Harry Potter has been the revelations from
   the past, the truth about the years when James, Lily, Sirius, and
   Snape were in school, and about when Hagrid and Tom Riddle were in
   school, and even about Dumbledore's misspent youth. The bottom line is
   that, even if there are still a lot of blanks, we have a lot of
   information about the pasts of all the significant characters. There's
   just not much need for a prequel. If there is one, I'd rather have
   Lily's or Snape's perspective, rather than, say, James's or Sirius's.
   And the period between their Hogwarts years and Voldemort's first
   encounter with Harry would be more interesting than their school
   years.
   Anyway, I think there's a better chance for a sequel than a prequel.
   The epilogue of Deathly Hallows already introduces us to the likely
   cast of characters we'd see in it. Of course, there's no clear
   antagonist there, but that doesn't mean one can't be found. And did
   anyone else notice that Deathly Hallows takes place in 1997? That
   nineteen years later in the epilogue lines up with nine years from
   now, which makes it ten years from the time Rowling would have
   finished writing Hallows. Ten years is about the time you'd expect it
   to take before an author returned to their old world... just a
   thought.

References

   1. http://corner.nationalreview.com/
   2. http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NDZhY2YxM2UzZDVkZmVlODM2MTA3MTJkY2JiM2ZjZGM=
   3. http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZGFjNjZjYzdkZjljNmNkNTlmMzMyNjBkYjg5NzQwZjQ=