Now, for those of you who do, lets talk about why the sudden surrender by many.  Especially towards two plot points, that if she actually does use will ruin the books and show that JKR is a plodding author at best. 

1) Harry living.

There seems to be a vision that he will die, egged on, I think by those who feel that he must die to "make it real" or to somehow show he is human or some crap.  

Really to do so, would totally ruin the effect of a coming of age story, which is the essential foundation of the Potter series.  As one, Harry would not live to grow to age, and second, it would just blow as a plot device.  Really did you expect Luke to die in ROTJ, Frodo in ROTK?  No.  Then why would you do so with Harry?

2) One Big Happy Weasley Family....

Seriously is there a more asinine concept in any universe?  First Harry and Ginny.
 
Until The-Book-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named (UtBTSNBN) Harry had looked at Ginny perhaps twice in the entire series, and then in the concept of "Ron's annoying sister."  Remember we see everything from Harry's perspective, with all of the preconceptions that that point of view carries along.  Then suddenly he is in true love?  Yeah...sure....

I'll give you that he was horny.  And Ginny's hair is rather shiny.  It says so...repeatedly. 

I get horny too, all the bloody time, I'm a guy, it comes with the territory, but even I know it's not true love.   And deep inside, Harry always did as well.  As did Ginny.  The breakup at the end is only indicative of such.  There was only a bit of attraction, of a belief that they should at least try it.  If Ginny had really cared, had loved him with the depth that it will take to be at his side until the end, she would have never, ever, given up that easily. 

Harry wanted to be normal for a brief shining moment in the sun, he got it, but it cost far, far too much.  His normalcy was totally abnormal for him, he is not, nor will he ever be normal.  It is both his curse and his boon, and until he embraces that he can not succeed.  And Ginny is not the person to drive him to those heights.  There is one who can, and he knows her, and she knows him better than anyone alive.  Better than Ron, than Dumbledore, and definitely better than Voldemort, which in the end will be Tom's downfall.

Ron and Hermione.

Once again, yes, I will give you that there might be horniness.  Ron has probably harbored a crush on her since fourth year when he finally realized that she had tits.  But has Hermione, really, reciprocated?  Seriously, look at UtBTSNBN.  In it, Harry and Hermione flirt the entire book, even when they are ostensibly fighting they are there for each other.  Yeah, she reacts to her best friend, one of the two people who have been her friends since she was twelve being poisoned. 

Wow...there's a shocker. 

Ron has had his chance, again and again.  Hermione was asking one of her boys to ask her to Slughorn's party, but was it Ron?  He surely did not seize on the chance.  Nor did Harry, but we know about his cluelessness throughout.  He has screwed up relations again and again with girls, Parvati, Cho...why would he suddenly realize that signals that have slowly amped up in intensity now mean everything.  

In the end, when it came down to it, when DD died, Hermione clung to Harry and he sure made no attempt to make her let go.  Harry barely even noticed Ginny in the room, and Hermione did not go to Ron at the end, but to Harry.  Odd that, since that would seem to violate the "close family" that we aspire to. 

Maybe she realizes, somewhere, that it is not her lot in life to be normal either, and that a life as Ron's prize isn't quite what she wants from life after all.

Odd that...

So why, are we so, despondent?  Yes, there was the IOD, but did it do more, really, than becalm the waters for a moment?  Everything she says has at least a half dozen meanings, both in print and in word, but for some reason, one of the central tenants of the book, Love, the power that is supposed to push him past Voldemort, is as obvious as a forest of trees?  Does that make a lick of sense? 

In many ways the playing field has been evened since the release of HBP.  The British cover has an alchemical wedding symbol on it for pete's sake, and only delusional folks think that bodes well for Ron to gain his prize.  The books, like the center circle return on themselves, and what once was lost, now is found. 

There are are always more important things, like loyalty, friendship...and love. 

In the end, if we don't by some minuscule chance "win", so what?  There are already scads of Fan Fictions out there that are honestly better than I can actually image Deathly Hallows to be.  Even if we win, JKR has shown an unwillingness, or perhaps lassitude in fully developing her universe.  There are several books written at a level commensurate with hers, that do do so, and even stay strictly within the canon bounds, and several that exceed and surpass it. 

There we go, disagree if you will, I don't care.