The lack of humanity is truly repellant. I can't tell who is more abhorrent, the 'heroes' or the 'villains.'
I've noticed one of the strange dichotomies in all of the these stories is the criticism of Wizarding Britain as a hierachal, prejudiced, nearly fuedal society, and Harry's desire to either fix it or abandon it to its problems (like some little boy who, not getting his own way, is going to take his toys and go home), while at the same time efforts are made to make him a genuine aristrocrat complete with vassals and often concubines. Talk about having your cake and eating it, too. It's good thing he's not also the handsomest, richest, most powerful wizard in the world or he'd start turning into one of those characters from George Elliot's Silly Novels by Silly Women Novelists.
I was no particular fan of Deathly Hallows or its epilogue, but if this is the 'real' epilogue, I'll take the crap one. At least it had a couple of actual human beings in it, instead of a load of unbelievable screaming motherfuckers.
Now I have to go and wash my eyes out with soap after having read this.
Author's response
Well, if you think unthinking bigots who fail to learn any lessons from the horrors of war and therefore try to make things at least a little better using the system as found are 'actual human beings', well, that's sad.
"T"