A few thoughts

[Adan]

I'm really hesitant to reintroduce myself and post before completing 
a second read and rechecking what I was thinking, but here goes 
anyway:  

The Epilogue.
For me, it was okay.  It confirmed my theories (Harry/Ginny, 
Ron/Hermione, Neville the Herbologist).  It let me see that Harry 
did, in fact, live, though with a decided weakness in choosing 
children's names.  It didn't wrap up everything in a nice, neat 
bow.  It was a brief glimpse of a moment in their life.  Sure, all 
was well, but not necessarily without the day to day struggles that 
is life.  We just didn't see it.  Might have liked it more if it was 
longer.  Might have liked it more if it wasn't there.  

I was disappointed to see so many negative reactions, particularly 
those that complained "so Hermione and Ginny become housewives?  
That's it?".  No.  Nothing like that was ever said or even 
intimated, imo.  None of the jobs/non-jobs of the trio+1 were 
stated. Strange that they're complaining about their own notions.

The Master of the Elder Wand
My first take on the whole convoluted episode was that the Elder 
Wand recognized not Harry, but the wand he was holding as its 
Master.  

I know, I know.  "The wand chooses the wizard", or whatever.  But 
you know what?  Mayhaps an all-powerful wand doesn't really care 
about the wizards. This might have already been put out here and 
debunked, but I didn't see it.  And it doesn't solve what happens 
with the Elder Wand after. He hid the Elder Wand, correct?  I think 
maybe he also hid Draco's wand so that no one could defeat it so 
that the Elder Wand's power is cancelled.  Possibly.  Perhaps.  
Still working that through.

Ginny.
This is one of my biggest disappointments.  Poor Ginny got the 
shaft, though not the naughty kind.  I had such hopes and theories 
about her strength and abilities hinted at in the last, but it comes 
to nothing.  She gets shunted off to the side because of her age or 
whatever, over and over again.  Quite a letdown.  Left me wondering 
why Slughorn was so interested in her last book.

Amanda (ExSlytherin):
Now I'm not saying there should be porn in HP and I don't feel some
kind of desperate need to get my rocks off by reading about teens
having sex, but touching on sexuality in young people (consumated or
not) can be done and done well. As I pointed out in a previous post
Phillip Pullman did just that, brilliantly, in The Amber Spyglass,
book 3 of the His Dark Material series.

Now me:  
I recall being quite disappointed at the end of the HDM trilogies.  
The alluded sexual encounter completely took me out of the story and 
left me thinking "all this, just so two 13yo can have sex?"

I must say that there were a couple of times during DH that I was 
wondering where a couple had run off to and wondered just exactly 
what was up, if you will.  I mean, just because Ron and Hermione 
said they were off gathering basilisk fangs and actually had a few 
in their hands doesn't mean that's all they were doing.  How long 
does a bit of toothpulling take, anyway?  That chamber might have a 
few more secrets.

Enough for now.
Adan, who doesn't post often due to unfortunate conflict between 
time and opportunity but who lurks often and well.