Amanuensis's Journal

I agree. I particularly liked his point about the things JKR pointed to and then never followed up on. He cited Ron's jealousy of Harry and Draco's foreshadowed redemption, and those were two of the things I was particularly frustrated that she didn't pursue. Not because I like them as plot points (though I do) so much as the fact that she made gestures in those directions and just left them hanging. It's unsatisfactory. And yeah, I felt like she chickened out of Hagrid's death, too. The "huh, a children's book after all" reaction just about summarizes it for me. I feel like she could have gone so much further into many of the points and just didn't, for whatever reason. Too many plot threads to keep up in the air? An inability to focus on plot vs. interpersonal stuff and sort of leaving both a little incomplete? I liked the book a lot. I liked the series a lot. But yeah, there were things that should have resolved more, or gone more deeply in before resolving. So much felt like it wasn't quite done. All that, and then the epilogue to add insult to injury. :/