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Originally Posted by Keryl Raist
Oh, lord, I had the same look. I found a leaked copy of DH showing the epilogue and I was sure it was a hoax. The end was bad fan fiction, there was no way that's how the story really ended.
Then I got my copy, turned to the end, and felt my heart shrivel.
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Count me in, too. I remember calling my 18-year-old niece, who had finished the book the day before I had, and we both had a moan-fest over the epilogue. What I've found is that much younger readers had a more favorable reaction to it, while more mature readers were... less satisfied. JKR virtually admitted to a great bout of intellectual laziness in an interview, revealing that she wrote the Epilogue first, before she wrote any other part of any of the seven books - and never went back to re-write it, regardless of how the characters had grown (or not, as the case may be).
Search any of the adult-focused HP communities and you'll find literally hundreds of EWE (Epilogue, What Epilogue?) stories that blow away JKR's version. In addition to the one I mentioned earlier, look at GrangerEnchanted.com, harrypotterfanfiction.com (spottier quality), and HPAdult tags on LJ.