lol you guys not all happy endings are bad. i just dont like to see good literature slaughtered for a profet. if your going to tell The Hunchback of Notra Dame, then tell it right. dont strip out all the main plot, change the demi-villian to pure evil, a passer by into pure good, and write your own story.
if your going to write a new story have the decency to make up your own charictors and setting