I really wasn't expecting anything good out of this book (except a huge, big letdown) so maybe that's why I wasn't too disappointed. I totally agree with you on the epilogue though. I really, seriously could have done without that. I could figure out myself that JKR wanted this to be the future, based simply on the canon that went before. I wish she hadn't been so selfish with it, and left it open so I could imagine my own preferred future. The story is over, it has an end, and I would have liked to imagine a future free and open to them, just for my own, personal enjoyement to fill in. This story should be about fantasy and imagination, right? Why does the future need to be set in stone?

I don't want to know that H/G and R/Hr all got married young and started breeding in their mid-twenties. I'm 27 myself, and none of my friends are married with babies yet. Most of us are still fresh out of university/school and starting to make careers, moving in together or singling it, and just making a living. I personally don't want the whole marriage/babies thing for a long time yet if ever. Why do these JKR characters have to be so old-fashioned? Just let us decide for ourselves if we want to project these sort of future's on these characters. The story is done. Leave the future be.

I really hate epilogues.