[alexx]

I have to respect JKR for her decision to end her series as she saw fit. I have to say that I don't think everyone "just lived happily ever after". I know it really comes off that way but in the epilogue we're only seeing a moment in time in their lives. It's not even a particularly long period of time. There were still nineteen years before that that we are completely oblivious to, and obviously a lot of time after the epilogue. No one can deny that JKR really has her story well thought out considering how intricately everything is laid out (and the whole notebook on dementors certainly blew me away), so I'm sure if any one of us got to ask her about their lives she would most definitely say they weren't perfect. Hermione would obviously be driven insane by Ron, and Harry and Ginny would obviously have their fights too. Just because we don't see it doesn't mean it wasn't there. I think that by having the epilogue nineteen years later, the reader is given the opportunity to see another of those rare moments where Harry is just having a normal life in some sense, because normal aspects of his life get glossed over so often, such as he and Ginny spending time together that whole month in HBP.

On the other hand, however, the one thing I would've liked to seen done differently would be Harry's career. After he realized that he got his idea of an Auror career from the fake Mad Eye in HBP, I thought that perhaps he wouldn't go that route. It just felt like a bit much for him to go on afterwards and still fight dark wizards. I understand his noble streak and such, but I really thought he could have potentially taken a different path to have a bit more of that 'normal life' that I mentioned before.