It's like a little kid before Christmas. I want to know - so badly - what happens next in the lives of Harry Potter's gang. The urge is overwhelming. How satisfying it would be to simply peek under the bed and have another Hogwarts adventure waiting for me. But I know it's for my own good. It's better left to the imagination.

That's exactly why J.K. Rowling should not continue the Harry Potter saga. It would be fun, of course. Gratifying. But it would spoil the fun.

From the beginning, Rowling intended on penning seven Potter novels. It's even been said that she wrote the epilogue to the final installment while still working on the first. From the beginning, Harry Potter's life had a clear-cut plan. Some characters and side stories may have been added along the way, but Rowling knew what she was doing. And in Potter's magical world, Rowling is God. Who are we to question her authority?


I opened up "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" with a mix of exhilaration and trepidation. I knew it was all about to be over. And as much as I was dying to know what happens, I wanted to prolong the experience (didn't work so well - I couldn't help but read the book voraciously).

Since she already told us what becomes of the Potter gang after they mature, the only other route Rowling could take is a prequel or, perhaps, a narrative from the eyes of Potter, the second generation.

Think about The Land Before Time. Halloween. Jurassic Park. Grease. Pretty much any movie involving a superhero. All of those dreadful Disney sequels, fluff-stories that take a little away from the splendor of their originals (Did any children actually fall in love with Bambi 2 or Aladdin: The Return of Jafar?). We've seen it time and time again with our favorite classic films. Box office success sometimes proves too tempting to certain producers' wallets, and they just can't help but draw out the experience as long as they can. But they often produce fodder for worst-films-ever-made debates rather than contributing anything to the original.

Some things are better left to the imagination. Some writers, actors, directors, characters need to just stop while they're ahead.

Harry Potter is already a bona fide classic. And while us Potterheads will surely find it hard not to pine after another novel, we can hopefully appreciate Rowling's masterpiece for what it already is: a beautifully constructed, masterfully-planned-out adventure that began more than 10 years ago and ended on July 21, 2007.

If you ever find yourself desperate for more time at Hogwarts, just go pick up the first book and start the adventure all over again.

Point by Sarah Lavery
Starpulse.com contributing writer

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