Thank you so much! I'm glad I'm not the only one who felt this way about the epilogue.
Though I must say, I liked the epilogue. I liked it quite a bit. I liked that it made me uncomfortable. That's also part of the reason I like HP. At first it was the main reason I didn't like HP, among many reasons why I did, but then I decided JKR was doing intentionally and she was very clever for doing so. Now I'm not quite so sure, but I still read it as...these hypocrisies and prejudices are things that are wrong about the "good guys". And they can learn we were wrong, as Harry does with Snape; your eyes get opened wider--but never all the way. No one ever sees the whole picture, and that's why the world is the way it is.
If no prejudice against Slytherin was implied or no auto-hatred of Draco's kid hinted at, I would've been irked by the happy trite fluffiness of it, but as it was it was a nice contrast to the present-time ending, which really is positive and happy.
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Though I must say, I liked the epilogue. I liked it quite a bit. I liked that it made me uncomfortable. That's also part of the reason I like HP. At first it was the main reason I didn't like HP, among many reasons why I did, but then I decided JKR was doing intentionally and she was very clever for doing so. Now I'm not quite so sure, but I still read it as...these hypocrisies and prejudices are things that are wrong about the "good guys". And they can learn we were wrong, as Harry does with Snape; your eyes get opened wider--but never all the way. No one ever sees the whole picture, and that's why the world is the way it is.
If no prejudice against Slytherin was implied or no auto-hatred of Draco's kid hinted at, I would've been irked by the happy trite fluffiness of it, but as it was it was a nice contrast to the present-time ending, which really is positive and happy.