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I’m feeling pretty empty after finishing the Deathly Hallows audiobook. The full cast audiobooks were a way to revisit the series in a new, fresh way and I gobbled them up greedily.

Despite having read each book about a dozen times or more, I had gone a long stretch of not having read Deathly Hallows in at least a decade, so when I finished the audiobook I was hit with just how abruptly Deathly Hallows ends. Voldemort dies, and then just a few pages later we end the story in Dumbledore’s office before quickly moving into the epilogue which doesn’t really help wrap up the story.

For the show, I desire at least half an episode after Voldemorts death. Some time to soak in Remus, Tonks and Fred’s death, some time to show shopping districts getting cleaned up or in general the wizarding world in a post Voldemort time. I don’t want the show to move to the epilogue five minutes of story time later. This is an excellent opportunity to let some of the story soak in. JKR made a point to make Harry Teddys godfather- I know in the epilogue it sounds like Teddy perhaps lived with his grandmother and simply visits Harry often, but how did that come about? What about Harry speaking with the Weasley family- his surrogate family, after their loss of Fred?

Is there anything missing from the ending that you would like to see the show explore?

Hello all! My sweet LO is nine days old and I’m so in love. I return to work when she is three months old or so and I keep thinking about that horrible morning where I drop her off for the first time. I remember when I toured the daycare one of the babies was screaming in her crib. The daycare is honestly amazing and I believed them when they said that was normal for that baby. The rest of the babies were being tended to or sleeping soundly.

I keep picturing dropping her off and her screaming in an unfamiliar place. I can’t expect them to cuddle her and sing her a song after her bottle and that puts her right to sleep. What if she is traumatized by the new place and all the sights and sounds?

I LOVE my job and we can’t afford to be on one income (VHCOL area) but also I just want to drink in her sweet baby coos all day and night.

I think I’m going through the opposite of post partem depression- I feel love drunk and want to do anything I can over the next three months to mentally prepare both my LO and myself for daycare.

We have no family nearby so she won’t experience sleeping away from home until it’s time for daycare.