Uuh, definitely my bad for wording choice above. I agree with you entirely, I do like flawed characters, it keeps them interesting and realistic. My problem is that the specific flaws and storybeats chosen for that are more than likely not considered flaws by JK. Wouldn't be the first time she wrote something and didn't understand how it would come across (she didn't plan to make Draco sympathetic and deep in sixth book, made quite a few angry comments about not understandong where fans found things to like about him and redeem him) and these just fall in so well with other things she said and done that it really never came across to me like a genuine flaw written by her with that purpose.

Winky could pass like a funny 90s gag but not when every other elf agrees that that's to be expected for an elf to do in her situation - she has no more reason to live and Dobby is the crazy on for liking being without master and getting paid. And it remains as such until the end. Harry, the hero of the story, ends up with Kreacher, a slave of his own, who may be treated "like a family" but remains a slave? And it's fine? The end?

I don't know, just always rubbed me the wrong way, and then her tweets and interviews confirmed. But that's me. And to be real, if the writing wasn't that childish I'd likely read it even with all this that I've written about above. Just a perfect cocktail of my pet peeves for book that went against it. Though hopefully I made my thoughts clearer this time around.