User blog comment:Zathronas/Author's Advice: Beginning and Ending a Story/@comment-10380701-20140206044854/@comment-6830001-20140207001543

Knowing the end at the beginning can mainly have two effects depending on how it's done : crush everything or give more suspense and mystery to know how it gets there...

At the end of the story, I like to know what characters are going to do after the main plot, either by concrete projects said or/and by seeing them a few years later.

I have to admit that I forgot, since I read it more than 10 years ago, that Harry Potter began with the Uncle's POV - point of view not vue :) - and that Sirius Black was already mentioned in the 1st chapter... And, speaking of Potter, it was funny to read that "books will be written about him" and that "every children will know him" : I guess that's mainly true, even in the real world x)