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EmmaRiddle
I really can't see her making the cut. Another character can easily serve her function in the plot.
Gotta disagree with you again on that point. Without Fleur and Bill and the wedding, Aunti Muriel disappears, along with her fantastic insights into Dumbledore's family, and Kingsley's news of the fall of the Ministry, and Shell Cottage disappears, along with Dobby's burial, talk of how to get into Gringott's, the news of Teddy's birth, all that stuff. You may say that another character can fill the function and that these pieces of storyline could be moved to other areas, if they're left in at all, but I don't think so. And if you cut all that out, then you might as well chop the epilogue to shreds, if THAT'S left in at all too.