I can't say I actively desired a patch up with Harry and the Dursleys, but I feel like it would have made more sense and added something to the book- it did, but it felt a tad tacked on. And I would have guessed Petunia, too. I like Dudley, but I couldn't see where he had made the leap to liking Harry and that made it ring false.

I approve of the early deaths! It's war, people, it's hell. More should have dropped! ('Course, you know how I can get. Once I kill one person off in a story, I've got to take out at least three more!)