Monday, July 14, 2014

Dumbledore's Army... After the Epilogue?

If you haven't seen it all over the internet in the past few weeks, the wonderful JK Rowling has chosen to shed a little more light on the futures of our favorite "golden trio" and some of their cohorts in a short story released on her website, Pottermore. It took all I had not to jump up and down screaming like the huge fangirl I am when this came out!
     This new story takes place during the Quidditch World Cup Final, (probably not too long after the 19 years later) written as a news article from Rita Skeeter. Skeeter follows and reports on all the hubbub surrounding the reunion of the Wizarding World's greatest heroes of the age, Dumbledore's Army. We hear news about Harry, Ron, and Hermione, of course, but Also about Neville, Luna, and even a peek at Viktor Krum! Enough with that, I'm sure you want to know what happened!
   Harry is now 34 years old, and it is confirmed that he has indeed become an Auror, when questioned about a "nasty cut" to accompany his famous scar. Is there fresh trouble in the wizarding world?
     We also see Harry and Krum reunite, maybe for the first time since the Triwizard Tournament. (That Krum is aware of, Harry was a bit preoccupied during the wedding!)
     Ron and Hermione are said to "have always refused to talk to the press" about Harry. Still as faithful as ever! We learn that immediately after the Battle, Ron went into Auror training with Harry, but left two years later to help with the "highly successful wizarding joke emporium, Weasley's Wizarding Weezes"
     Hermione became the Deputy Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. She is mother to their son Hugo, and daughter Rose.
     Nevvile is the Hogwarts Herbology teacher, (no surprise there!) and we also find out that he's married to Hannah Abbott!
     And of Luna, we learn that she married someone named Rolf Scamander, has twin sons, and is just as eccentric as ever!
     Percy is head of the Department of Magical Transportation, but really, we always knew he'd end up doing something at the ministry!
    Last but not least, we hear about Teddy Lupin, who has "bright blue hair", has been seen together with Victoire (which we saw in the 19 years later!) who behaves "in a way unbefitting of wizarding royalty" but I think that's just good old Rita going on again.

I don't know about you, but all this has really got me missing the wizarding world! We could all use a little more magic, I think. I'm still holding out hope that one day she'll release another book! I'd love to read something like that... to read the full story, head over to Pottermore and sign up and find a lot more stories like this one!

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