carrie_m_e <carrie_m_e@...> wrote:

 

I'm glad you liked it, in spite of the ending :-)

 

It's a funny thing, but I had the same reaction when I wrote it - I kept thinking "This is a miserable way for it to finish!"  But I tried a couple of scenarios that were more upbeat and they just didn't work.  It wanted to be more sombre.  And in some ways I personally think that's appropriate, because it's the end of a battle but not the end of the war - does that make sense?  Voldemort is dead, but everything hasn't been miraculously put right.  The things in wizard society that allowed a monster like Voldemort to happen in the first place haven't been changed - yet - and so it's still not a perfect world.

 

Although I didn't deliberately write it with this in mind, I would add now that Harry's ongoing illness and slow recovery are almost a metaphor for what's happening in the wizard world.  It's not right yet, but things are changing and starting to heal.  It's going to take time.  Just like Harry's health.

 

Like I said, I'm glad you liked ti :-)

 

Take care,

 

Mad Martha