Go for it! It's very possible that's what JKR was going for anyway.
I didn't see the epilogue as them accepting status quo initially, especially as Harry's actually fairly defensive of Slytherin in a way he wouldn't have been before, but there was the joke about Ron tricking a Muggle driving instructor into passing him (I love Ron, but could've done without that*)
*Although it may be another example of the awkward mesh of kid's book and Young Adult book the later installments had. Because on a kid's level, yes, that's funny. On a mature level, that's not funny. And the books had this problem as they got more mature, where on one hand we had complicated themes, but things like Peeves singing a silly song about a horrifying battle that killed fifty people were supposed to make us laugh. I really do still love the books, and I like Deathly Hallows a lot, but... this lends another meaning to the term "doesn't always age well."
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Date: 2017-05-28 12:19 pm (UTC)I didn't see the epilogue as them accepting status quo initially, especially as Harry's actually fairly defensive of Slytherin in a way he wouldn't have been before, but there was the joke about Ron tricking a Muggle driving instructor into passing him (I love Ron, but could've done without that*)
*Although it may be another example of the awkward mesh of kid's book and Young Adult book the later installments had. Because on a kid's level, yes, that's funny. On a mature level, that's not funny. And the books had this problem as they got more mature, where on one hand we had complicated themes, but things like Peeves singing a silly song about a horrifying battle that killed fifty people were supposed to make us laugh. I really do still love the books, and I like Deathly Hallows a lot, but... this lends another meaning to the term "doesn't always age well."