All Was Well?

I finished the book yesterday. I thought it was a bit meh to be honest. Some of the early content (at the Dursley home) which was quite touching, could really have been followed up later instead of that horrible, wet, overindulgent epilogue. To my mind a more appropriate epilogue would have focused on six months to a year down the track to see the immediate effects of the final battle in terms of the casualties, and the restoring of order back into Hogwarts and the Ministry of magic. Also, I wanted to know about elves and goblins. Were they integrated more successfully into the wizarding world after the realisation that their mistreatment was a costly mistake in many ways? Does anybody else care about this or am the lone voice of dissent?



I didn't think that many of the deaths were handled well. Only two of them really affected me, both of these deaths were non-human. The only other time I cried was when Harry, with his zombie posse, bravely marched into the forest to meet his fate. I was prepared to give this book all my tears but I don't think it really deserved them.



More importantly, do y'all think Ms. Rowling has had some work done? Like a LOT of work done? That's definitely a different nose. And she looks much more youthful now than in the older photo. Maybe she should spend some of her dosh fixing her teeth though; I've never seen a picture of her actually smiling. I'm guessing she's got some hideous English chompers hidden away in there. Or she's terribly unhappy. I still think it's the bad teeth.