It's as if Lisa Simpson married Homer Simpson. That is, if Lisa Simpson were a completely insane control freak who wiped her parents brains and packaged them off to another country, supposedly for their own good.

And if Homer Simpson was a "master strategist" who "defeated the genius Dumbledore's chess set at the age of eleven."

only people in the book who attempt to better themselves are either evil or going through an evil phase

So what's all that studying Hermione does?

I'm impressed by you thinking Fred dying means JKR has it in for twins.

I agree that the epilogue would have been more satisfying if the stuff she said in an interview (like Harry being a top Auror, Hermione being a lawyer) had actually been in the book. And the house-elves are disturbing. Though I thought they were meant to be.