I read the last 300 pages of book 6 last night. I find it hard to imagine that the final volume could be any better than that. But for right now my ranking of the books is a very boring 6,5,4,3,2,1.
Dumbledore's funeral was the best writing she's done. It's hard to imagine that it's even the same writer as the one who wrote Book 1.
Fucking Snape. I sense there is still something more going on that we don't know about. Maybe we'll learn the true reason that Dumbledore trusted him. I have some crazy, out-there theories about how Snape is still on the side of good. But realistically, it seems like he was what he seemed. I'm a little disappointed in that, since it's less interesting to my mind.
The one thing I disliked was that Harry broke up with Ginny to protect her. But he's fine with Ron and Hermione coming along with him? Granted, his relationship with Ron and Hermione is different, but they are still people he loves. Voldemort can still use that. And it's not like he put his feelings for Ginny on ice by breaking it off with her. I guess there are fewer outward manifestations of that love, but all in all it just seems like Rowling really doesn't want him to have a girlfriend.