In which...J.K. Rowling crafts the absolute perfect resolution to the series, and then immediately disses her own brilliant work by tacking on an immature and indulgent flash-forward epilogue that I now just pretend doesn't exist when I reach the end of the book.
Highlights:
Harry, Ron, & Hermione flung out into the world. So crazy different.
Harry & Hermione without Ron. My favorite section of the book. No offense, Ron.
This book is really funny. Also.
"The Forest Again"
"King's Cross"
Reading this book is an intensely satisfying experience for those who've been following the series all along. Rowling's development as a writer is significant. She frees herself (and the reader) from any exposition at all. She breaks her own conventions right and left. And she proves that she knew all along what was going to happen. All the adventures and details end up being important. So she means it when she dedicates the book to "you, if you have stuck with Harry until the very end."
A word of advise, though: skip the epilogue. Rowling wrote it first, way back before any of the books. And it shows. And it's not necessary.
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