Thanks so much! I don't know that I expected Snape to be content as a cook forever, but I wanted him unsettled, waking up and discovering that everything from his former life -- good and bad -- is decades behind him, and deciding he had better stake out a place where he is reasonably at ease and in control (I loved the idea of him with a staff of squibs scurrying around while he's being brilliant *g*). I think Harry's right when he tells Snape that he's still living in the shadow of the past no matter how far behind he thinks he's left it, but I don't know if Snape is admitting as much to himself yet. They are both very capable of putting the same kinds of blinders on.
I feel sorry for Hermione mostly because I can't figure out what she sees in Ron! (As a friend, yes, and as a safe bet for a husband who'll be faithful and devoted to their children, probably, but as a lover who really appreciates her for who she is, not so much, and I can see them having big arguments about parenting.) The Big Happy Weasley Family of the epilogue makes me really uncomfortable, particularly when Lily comes out with that line about how Teddy isn't really part of the family unless he marries Victoire.