Update II (9/11): Jo says it ain’t so!
Update (9/9): The Ticket, a gossip mag, is reporting that J.K. Rowling said: “I’m up to about 750 pages now, but I’m not telling anyone what happens to Harry. I’ve just come along to support Rupert who’s absolutely terrific in Driving Lessons.”
If true, great! Book 5, Order of the Phoenix, was over 800 pages.
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Calling all bored-at-work Harry Potter fans on this wonderful Friday!
It’s time for a Harry Potter meme. Since I have no time to update my little Fantasy Fiction for Christians blog, poor lonely thing, I’ll link to it. If you can spare the time, check out the entire Harry Potter category.
I rarely blog at FFC anymore, but Travis Prinzi at Sword of Gryffindor is all over the symbolism and mythology in the books. He inspired this meme post.
Author J.K. Rowling is hard at work on Book 7, writing in longhand, no doubt. She’s already said at least two characters are done for. Is The Boy Who Lived destined to sacrifice himself for his friends?
A seemingly ordinary 11-year-old who thought his parents were killed in a car crash learns that he’s a wizard hunted by the most evil wizard of all, the same one who killed his parents and tried to kill him. Through Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, we’ve shared Harry’s triumphs and disappointments, knowing the worst was yet to come. Millions of people all over the world are captivated by Harry Potter and anxiously await JKR’s final book, where we’ll follow the adventures of soon-to-be 17-year-old Harry to their conclusion.
As you may know, JKR reportedly said that scar was the final word in the already-written final chapter of Book 7, the as-yet unnamed final Harry Potter book. I thought we’d have some fun today and write our own version of the last few paragraphs of the final book in the series.
Read my version below the fold. SPOILER ALERT!
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Ron could hardly believe a year had passed since he, Harry, and Hermione had stood under the beech tree at Hogwarts after Dumbledore’s funeral. As they prepared for the unknown, they knew their decision not to return to school was something they were compelled to do in order to hunt down Lord Voldemort. Ron certainly hadn’t wanted to earn the distinction this way, but he had finally done something better than any of this brothers: killing the most evil wizard the world has ever known and avenging the deaths of untold numbers of innocent people.
Fighting alongside Harry and destroying the remaining horcruxes, and ultimately, Lord Voldemort, was an adventure beyond imagining. Harry not only fulfilled his destiny, but Voldemort’s final destruction had to be. Harry will be remembered for all time by witches and wizards everywhere.
Even in death, ironically, Harry Potter will always be The Boy Who Lived, Ron thought. He not only sacrificed himself so that others, including Ron, would live, but so that no one else would die at the hands of Lord Voldemort. Harry was the final victim of the Dark Lord’s twisted hatred. Ron couldn’t bear to dwell on how it happened.
As he watched the orange sun slink below the horizon, Ron knew it was time to leave Hogwarts grounds. Hermione would be leaving St. Mungo’s tonight. The healers were finally able to break the Death Eater’s nasty hex; there would be no scarring. So many people were killed in the war against Voldemort, including his own brother [Percy]. He and Hermione were lucky. The only physical reminder of his battle with the Death Eaters was a small mark on the back of his left hand. He stared at it.
It reminded him of Harry’s scar.
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Hey, I’m no JKR, but it’s not bad!
Put on your fiction-writing hats. Your passage can be as long or short as you want it to be. Check out this ending written by another Christian Harry Potter fan.
Have good weekend, readers. 
