the saddest death

I read HP 7 yesterday, and it was good. I still think the character who came back to life (no spoilers here!) was a cop-out. I wasn't moved by that death, or the deaths of major characters, as much as I was moved by one character's literal march toward death, and especially by the character who died while joking around, who had always been a favorite of mine (my other two favorites survived, thankfully). Yesterday I thought the epilogue wrapped things up a bit too neatly, but today I'm okay with it. My favorite part, by far, was the radio broadcast.
I re-read Harry Potter books up until the seventh one came out, so now it's strange to read anything else. It doesn't help that I'm reading Warrior Woman, a shockingly bad pulp novel by Marion Zimmer Bradley. It's more plot-driven than Survey Ship, which isn't a compliment here, not where MZB is concerned (my favorite MZB is Thendara House, after all, which is all about character development).