2. Yup, she's always been fond of long, long chunks of exposition. "Hey, Harry, let's sit down for pages and pages at the end and explain all those mysterious motivations, even the most obvious ones."

4. Yay, Neville! And his actions fit with the whole ambiguous prophecy (maybe Trelawney did mean him after all?) and I like where he ends up, if that epilogue isn't a fake.