What happened in those nineteen years?

[Run Away!!!]

What did Harry, Ginny, Ron and Hermione do for a living? Did Harry finally become an auror, or did he decide against it and went for the quiet life as it seems to be in the epilogue.

[Bextra]

I swear that I read somwhere that Harry becomes some sort of freelance auror, and that Hermione was a healer? Or was that just wishful thinking?

[Stumpy]

and why didnt his kids know he was famous? sounds like they lived as muggles to me.

did harry ever finish his last year at school?

yeah was odd how they didnt know as doubt something like that would've been hushed up!!

[DucksRMagical]

Harry and Ron became Aurors. And Hermione worked for the Ministry in Magical law enforcement. J.K.R. said that on her interview on the Today show.

[Stumpy]

So really odd that the children wouldnt know about that there dad killed off the most evil wizard there ever was

[GodrictheGriffon]

That is a little weird. All in a days work for them, though I suppose!

[June]

Just to paste an interview that Rowling had Today's Show:

Finished ‘Potter’? Rowling tells what happens next
Exclusive: Author gives details on events after the book’s final epilogue

By Jen Brown
TODAYShow.com contributor
Updated: 7:38 a.m. ET July 26, 2007


Spoiler alert: This story reveals some key plot points in the final Harry Potter book. So if you've haven't finished the book, J.K. Rowling asks that you not read this story.




If you found the epilogue of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” rather vague, then J.K. Rowling achieved her goal.

The author was shooting for “nebulous,” something “poetic.” She wanted the readers to feel as if they were looking at Platform 9¾ through the mist, unable to make out exactly who was there and who was not.

“I do, of course, have that information for you, should you require it,” she told TODAY’s Meredith Vieira rather coyly in her first interview since fans got their hands on the final book.
Ummm … yes, please!


Rowling said her original epilogue was “a lot more detailed,” including the name of every child born to the Weasley clan in the past 19 years. (Victoire, who was snogging Teddy — Lupin and Tonks’ son — is Bill and Fleur’s eldest.)

“But it didn’t work very well as a piece of writing,” Rowling said. “It felt very much that I had crowbarred in every bit of information I could … In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything.”

But now that the seventh and final novel is in the hands of her adoring public, Rowling no longer has to hold back any information about Harry Potter from her fans. And when 14 fans crowded around her in Edinburgh Castle in Scotland earlier this week as part of TODAY’s interview, Rowling was more than willing to share her thoughts about what Harry and his friends are up to now.

Harry, Ron and Hermione
We know that Harry marries Ginny and has three kids, essentially, as Rowling explains, creating the family and the peace and calm he never had as a child.

As for his occupation, Harry, along with Ron, is working at the Auror Department at the Ministry of Magic. After all these years, Harry is now the department head.

“Harry and Ron utterly revolutionized the Auror Department,” Rowling said. “They are now the experts. It doesn’t matter how old they are or what else they’ve done.”

Meanwhile, Hermione, Ron’s wife, is “pretty high up” in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, despite laughing at the idea of becoming a lawyer in “Deathly Hallows.”

“I would imagine that her brainpower and her knowledge of how the Dark Arts operate would really give her a sound grounding,” Rowling said.

Harry, Ron and Hermione don’t join the same Ministry of Magic they had been at odds with for years; they revolutionize it and the ministry evolves into a “really good place to be.”

“They made a new world,” Rowling said.

The wizarding naturalist
Luna Lovegood, the eccentric Ravenclaw who was fascinated with Crumple-Horned Snorkacks and Umgubular Slashkilters, continues to march to the beat of her own drum.

“I think that Luna is now traveling the world looking for various mad creatures,” Rowling said. “She’s a naturalist, whatever the wizarding equivalent of that is.”

Luna comes to see the truth about her father, eventually acknowledging there are some creatures that don’t exist.

“But I do think that she’s so open-minded and just an incredible person that she probably would be uncovering things that no one’s ever seen before,” Rowling said.

Luna and Neville Longbottom?
It’s possible Luna has also found love with another member of the D.A.

When she was first asked about the possibility of Luna hooking up with Neville Longbottom several years ago, Rowling’s response was “Definitely not.” But as time passed and she watched her characters mature, Rowling started to “feel a bit of a pull” between the unlikely pair.

Ultimately, Rowling left the question of their relationship open at the end of the book because doing otherwise “felt too neat.”

Mr. and Mrs. Longbottom: “The damage is done.”

There is no chance, however, that Neville’s parents, who were tortured into madness by Bellatrix Lestrange, ever left St. Mungo’s Hospital for Magical Maladies.

“I know people really wanted some hope for that, and I can quite see why because, in a way, what happens to Neville’s parents is even worse than what happened to Harry’s parents,” Rowling said. “The damage that is done, in some cases with very dark magic, is done permanently.”
Photos by Andrew Kandel for TODAYshow.com
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Rowling said Neville finds happiness in his grandmother’s acceptance of him as a gifted wizard and as the new herbology professor at Hogwarts.

The fate of Hogwarts
Nineteen years after the Battle of Hogwarts, the school for witchcraft and wizardry is led by an entirely new headmaster (“McGonagall was really getting on a bit”) as well as a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. That position is now as safe as the other teaching posts at Hogwarts, since Voldemort’s death broke the jinx that kept a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor from remaining for more than a year.

While Rowling didn’t clarify whether Harry, Ron and Hermione ever return to school to finish their seventh year, she did say she could see Harry popping up every now and again to give the “odd talk” on Defense Against the Dark Arts.

More details to come?
Rowling said she may eventually reveal more details in a Harry Potter encyclopedia, but even then, it will never be enough to satisfy the most ardent of her fans.

“I’m dealing with a level of obsession in some of my fans that will not rest until they know the middle names of Harry’s great-great-grandparents,” she said. Not that she’s discouraging the Potter devotion!

“I love it,” she said. “I’m all for that.”

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Guess that answers some questions here. =)

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[Eol]

Thanks June, that clears up a lot of questions. I thought Luna would be with Dean, seeing as he took her hand to invite her to go and fight.

[GodrictheGriffon]

I was thinking that, too. but Dean isn't mentioned in the movies. I've been wondering how that will work out in The Seventh Book. Maybe Seamus will take his place as Neville has been for Dobby? I have no idea how that is going to work.

[Augusta Longbottom]

what do you mean Dean isn't mentioned in the movies? Dean's been in all of them so far, albeit, not much in OotP.

[ElineV]

what happened to Luna's dad though?
and still..Ginny; doesn't she work at all??

and Ron's parents..

I am still not really satisfied with these answers.

[GodrictheGriffon]

In the tour of there dormitories. Dean isn't mentioned with Harry, Ron, Neville, and Seamus. He's there, but he's never mentioned.

[June]

I agree that Ms Rowling left a lot unanswered... perhaps she's saving those bits for the 'encyclopedia' on the Harry Potter world that she's writing? If she reveals everything now, there's no point asking us to buy the book. =P

I would really like to know what happened to George though.. how he got through Fred's death. Sigh...

[choki]

Wondering if George got married and had twins (to re-live the Weasleys twins fame)
Hoping for someone in the family had twins in the next generation

Ginny could be a professional seeker! Or one of her 3 children will be a seeker, afterall, both dad and mum were once Gryffindor seekers

[Broccoli]

I wonder if the trio (and other students) repeated the last year of Hogwarts and did their NEWTs.