I thought this is a great article on the topic. I wish I knew enough about Harry Potter to be REALLY impressed.  🙂

6:36 P.M. EST UPDATE WITH *MAJOR* SPOILERS (AND PERHAPS A LINK TO THE BOOK ITSELF): I KNOW you’ve heard about the spoilers. I’ve seen the scans of the pages, but the quality is too poor to read. Now, this separate scanning of what is, apparently, the book’s Epilogue (if/when you go there, scroll down QUICKLY to the bottom if you don’t want to read the site’s listed Book 7 spoilers) has certainly circled the globe this afternoon.

So, don’t read any further if you don’t want to know anything.

Seriously.

Don’t do it.  🙂

It might be wrong anyway, so why risk it?

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So Ron is supposedly killed, but somehow is alive and well (and a father, no less!) in the “Nineteen Years Later” Epilogue? If true (BIG “IF”), that might be the character Rowling last year said got a “reprieve.”  So, according to what I read, the epic’s central trio is safe, and both you-know-whos are married to those other you-know-whos, all with crumb-snatchers galore. An honest-to-gosh happy ending after all for this long fairy tale—if this is true.

Hmmm……long wait until 12:01 a.m. Saturday.  🙂

JULY 23rd UPDATE: I’m one-fourth in, and Ron is safe and sound. (And yes, I did cheat and skim throughout the whole thing to make sure he was fine.) And I’m sure you know now that the “Nineteen Years Later” Epilogue was indeed the real deal. So nobody died that, say, a casual Potterite cares about. I guess it was silly to think that an author worth a billion dollars would be dumb enough to enrage her fans. 😉

JULY 30TH UPDATE: Now half-way done. Really good children’s book.

Saw on “Dateline NBC” last night that the character who Rowling saved was Mr. Weasley. Good. I like him.