After seven years of magic, war, and total chaos, the Harry Potter epilogue gives fans a chance to see what happened to their favorite characters after the dust settled. Harry, Ron, and Hermione have all moved on from the days of fighting Voldemort. Now, after 19 years, they are settled adults with full-time jobs and kids of their own.
But not everyone is happy with the way their lives played out. Fans on Reddit have been vocal about their issues with the ending penned by JK Rowling.
Harry Shouldn’t Have Become An Auror
For years, Harry’s path is set in stone. As the Chosen One, the prophecy maintains that he’s destined to fight – and either kill or be killed by – Lord Voldemort. This means plenty of conflict, pain, and suffering from a very young age.
This is exactly why Redditor cloud_empress thinks it’s unrealistic that he’d willingly become an Auror. Although Harry does express interest in this from a young age, they believe he seems tired of fighting by the end of Deathly Hallows and would prefer a life of comparative peace, perhaps as a professional Quidditch player or Defence Against the Dark Arts professor. This is understandable, but Harry’s infamous ‘saving people thing’ would probably play a big role even after the war.
The Relationships Are Unrealistic
When Harry, Ron, and Hermione arrive on Platform Nine and Three Quarters to drop off their kids, it’s revealed that they all stayed with their school sweethearts. Ron and Hermione are married, while Harry reunited with Ginny after the war.
For snowkat69, this is incredibly unrealistic. They believe the odds of both couples surviving into the long-term are very low. However, what this doesn’t account for is the fact that all of them bonded on much deeper levels than the average teenagers thanks to the war, setting them up for greater success in the long run.
Draco Malfoy Should Have Been Redeemed
Draco Malfoy has one of the most interesting journeys in Harry Potter. From arrogant bully to reluctant Death Eater, he ends the series on Platform Nine and Three Quarters with Harry, Ron, and Hermione. None of them speak, but he sends them a curt nod while Ron warns his daughter away from him.
What frustrates snowkat69 about this is the absence of any kind of redemption arc. Malfoy ends the series as standoffish as he is at the start. To have Malfoy go from villain to hero would have added an extra layer to the finale – and it would’ve been a powerful message of tolerance and acceptance – but there was potentially too much bad blood for the trio to become more than acquaintances.
It Ruins The Catharsis Of Deathly Hallows
There’s so much going on in Deathly Hallows that filmmakers were forced to split the plot into two. It faces the challenge of wrapping up everyone’s storylines, as well as tracking Harry’s torturous experience trying to fulfill the prophecy and ending Lord Voldemort once and for all.
It’s a challenge that the story lives up to wonderfully – and the epilogue serves as a reminder that even after all that trauma, things will be better one day. But in nudelete‘s opinion, the story should have ended before then. After Harry kills Voldemort and unites with his friends, they believe there’s enough catharsis to satisfactorily wrap up the series for good without a “forced” or “flimsy” chapter tacked onto the end.
Ron And Hermione Are Toxic
Ron and Hermione are the will-they-won’t-they couple of the Harry Potter series. From their early teenage years, their bickering suggests something stronger than friendship. The tension ramps up in later entries, until they eventually kiss in the heat of battle in Deathly Hallows – and end up married with kids in the epilogue.
Redditor omnenomnon doesn’t think it would have gone that smoothly. In retrospect, they think Ron and Hermione exhibit toxic behaviors and reactions that just wouldn’t allow their relationship to work long term, especially once they had children. The pair do have their issues, but it’s nothing that couldn’t be sorted with some serious reflection – and perhaps, as Rowling herself suggested to Wonderland, couples counseling.
The Next Generation Have Bad Names
The names of Harry and Ginny’s children are very familiar. James Sirius, Albus Severus, and Lily Luna are all named after influential – or, in Albus Severus’ case, controversial – figures in Harry’s life, and are seemingly named as such to preserve their legacies.
But for midnight_riddle, this makes no sense. In their opinion, the names sound like something out of fan fiction rather than realistic characters of the next generation. While it’s understandable that Harry would want to honor those who didn’t get to survive to see him live a normal life, it is slightly strange that he bestows his children with such heavy birthrights.
Ron Lost All Of His Empathy
He’s a great best friend to Harry, but Ron does have his weaknesses. He can also be sarcastic, insensitive, and jealous at times – but, fortunately, he matures as the series goes on. He continuously proves that he’s also compassionate, loyal, and horrified by the idea of wizards harming Muggles or Muggle-borns.
The Ron fans meet in the epilogue is pretty much the same, except bluetaffy believes he seems to have lost all his empathy. The detail of him bewitching a Muggle to get his driving license is slightly out of character, and might suggest he’s become less concerned over the years.
It Ignores The Consequences Of The Wizarding War
The amount of trauma that characters experience during the wizarding war is overwhelming. Harry, Ron, and Hermione lost multiple friends, family members, and loved ones over the years, as well as being subjected to torture, terror, and the pressure of saving the entire world at such a young age.
According to RainbowTotties, the epilogue implies that everything is completely fine once the war ends – strangely fine. There’s no suggestion of the aftermath, whether that’s PTSD, mental health issues, or even just rebuilding efforts. It seems obvious that everyone would struggle but, then again, they have had 19 years to recover.
Harry And Hermione Should Have Got Together
Harry and Hermione are friends from their first year of Hogwarts, and only grow closer over the years. In Deathly Hallows, they spend months alone together, hunting for Horcruxes in an experience that nobody else could really understand – perhaps not even Ron.
Although this didn’t bond them romantically, Redditor StrawberryR believes they should have ended up together. There is an argument for Harry and Hermione being soulmates, but even Harry says that he has always seen her as a sister, and nothing can change that.
Anti-Slytherin Prejudice Shouldn’t Still Exist
If there’s a key moment in the epilogue, it’s Albus Severus Potter disclosing to his father his fears of being sorted into Slytherin after James teases him about it. Harry calms his son with promises that the Sorting Hat takes choice into account – just as it did for him – but that there’s nothing wrong with being placed in Slytherin.
For 360Saturn, this is a sign that all is still not so great in the wizarding world. If they were that committed to ending bigotry and prejudice, they would have fought anti-Slytherin sentiment just as they did Voldemort’s concept of blood purity. At the very least, Harry would’ve ensured his own children didn’t feel it. This is a fair point – but the flaws in wizarding society did always run deeper than just You Know Who.
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