Did "Deathly Hallows" feel like it was ghost written?

[the smiling weirwood]

Originally Posted by Teresa Edgerton

Either that, or she's been subtly molding her reader's expectations from the beginning so that their desires would ultimately fall in perfectly with what she had planned to write all along.

That would imply that she is a brilliant psychologist and unparalleled social engineer and far too powerful for us to allow to roam about. No doubt she is even now concocting plans for world domination.

[Lith]

I think she was bringing readers towards certain conclusions from the beginning- it isn't necessarily brilliant, heading toward a conclusion you've been pointing at for like 10 years, and lo and behold, it comes out close to what many expected or speculated. One of the downsides of knowing where you're going with a story- the likelihood others will know where you're going with it as well. And then there's the epilogue, which just felt like another book, the product of another writer. My theory is that it is just the work of an inexperienced JKR, whose writing and thinking more closely resembles that of her fans, and it really should have been excised from the book entirely.

Didn't feel like it was ghost-written otherwise, only tighter (mostly), either because she just wanted to get it done, or was trying really hard to finish in the promised 7 books.

[paranoid marvin]

I doubt that the author had a vision of a 5th book , never mind any more , when she wrote the first novel. there is ceratinly a difference in quality of writing from the first to the last , and it appears as though the author has grown up with many of her readers.

Personally , I think that the last novel was designed to tie up ALL of the loose ends , and make the possibility of any further stories based on loose threads virtually impossible

Unless I am mistaken the last book was written with the intention of finishing Harry Potter once and for all , satisfying her audience , and do her best to keep any clamouring for an 8th instalment to a minimum