(Anonymous)
flkaaargh JKR drives me mad. MAD.
there's just a ton of disturbing messages bundled into the books, but I think above all what I can't stand is the heavy-handed black-and-white moralizing (the usage of gryffindor and slytherin as adjective equivalents for good and evil respectively, throughout the books-- down to the significance ascribed to harry "choosing" (based on barely any knowledge other than hagrid's blatant prejudice and an encounter with ron weasley) gryffindor over slytherin--- is not made up for by the lame little fix-it she tacked on in the epilogue)
there's just a ton of disturbing messages bundled into the books, but I think above all what I can't stand is the heavy-handed black-and-white moralizing (the usage of gryffindor and slytherin as adjective equivalents for good and evil respectively, throughout the books-- down to the significance ascribed to harry "choosing" (based on barely any knowledge other than hagrid's blatant prejudice and an encounter with ron weasley) gryffindor over slytherin--- is not made up for by the lame little fix-it she tacked on in the epilogue)