Blog # 3 How it should have ended?

To start off, a little humor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GweaS_8xcc

Jokes aside, the ending of the 7th book, for me, has always been a little bitter sweet. Obviously the ending of these books means no more Harry Potter novels, which certainly is sad, but perhaps more disappointing for me is the ending of Voldemort. Harry and Voldemort begin dueling for the last time on page 743 and 2 paragraphs later Voldemort is dead. One last battle, one quick spell, and Voldemort dies in the most anticlimactic way possible. No giant balls of fire, now huge raging earth splitting "NOOOOOO", and certainly no giant duel involving incredible magic. On the total other end of the spectrum is the ending of book five where Voldemort and Dumbledore battle for several pages using very complex and advanced magic. Both of them throw there best at one another. Even within book seven, very complex magic is seen by other people, namely Crabbe. He casts a complex spell while in the room of requirement (pg 631), though he doesn't seem quite aware of what he has made (a fire demon of sorts?). Book four held interesting magic in the maze of the Triwizard cup, book 5 had some interesting magical encounters in the Ministry toward the end of the novel, the list is fairly deep of creative and intense magical power to be had in the world. To top it all off, Voldemort is the most powerful dark wizard to ever live! Why would he die a quick and powerless death?
Here is where that video starts to have some valid points. We see all this great and powerful magic used through out every book, and yet, once Voldemort has none of Horcruxes, he dies so incredibly quickly, despite still having all of his power as the Dark Lord. I would have loved nothing more than to see Tom Riddle and Harry Potter battle one another, man to man, mortal verses mortal in the show down of the century; the entire series has built up to this ultimate fight, and the Battle of Hogwarts should have just been the tip of the iceberg! Instead, Rowling ends it quickly. What's a few more pages and a few cool spells?! You could make them orbit the castle and shoot lighting at each other like Starwars and no one could tell you otherwise because you're J.K. Rowling and this is Harry Potter! Let them shoot lasers at each other, use complex shield spells, unleash hell, anything! Instead Voldemort dies faster than Colin Creevey, and with less emotion too. He isn't given a speech, or a chance to spit at Harry one last time, he doesn't tear down Hogwarts around him, or force Harry to destroy the elder wand in a wild attempt to save everyone from a crazy burning inferno Voldemort makes as a suicide-bomb. The possibilities were absolutely limitless.
How it should have ended? In my opinion, it ended quite fine, its the method by which Rowling reaches the ending that has me up in arms!

-Tom Seiple