SPOILER ALERT!!!!
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First, the book did not follow the standard Potter formula, with school being the gel that held everything together.
I disagree, and actually think that this is one of the strengths of the book.
Everything that Harry loved or that protected him or gave him any guidence had to be taken away from him in order for him to do what he needed to do, and that included Hogwarts and the teachers there.
Loss and abandonment and how we pesevere and make our own way is a major theme of the series.
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The far more critical issue with the book was the lack of any real epilogue or 'denument'. After investing seven plus years and 3000 or so pages into a setting and characters the lack of closure really, for lack of a better word, sucked.
I think you are missing the point of the epilogue.
"Nothing happens", because nothing much happens in normal life during peacetime when people are free to live as they wish and are not under constant thread of attack, torture, and death.
That is exactly what Harry and everyone who opposed Voldemort was fighting for; the ability to have a normal life.