Yes. Very well put. Part of the issue here is that I was convinced she was telling not just a fantasy tale about the battle between "good" and "evil", but a story about a boy growing up. And-Harry never grows up, IMHO. He never has to truly make a hard choice or apologize to anybody about anything.

There are readers who would strongly disagree with me, because, they argue, Harry does go off to die. But, to me, this didn't even seem like a decision. It was just passive obedience; perhaps even despair. It was not proactive and not thought through. Also, I would have like Harry to have come to his own conclusions, as so many readers did long before him.

I agree that Rowling ended up telling a flat and uninteresting story.