Harry Potter: Wondering about a few things

Yeah, I know HP canon is full of holes, but that won't stop me from trying to fill them in, or extrapolate from what we know. So in the aid of my insatiable curiosity (and perhaps in aid of fic), here are a few ponderings and questions. Please help me with them!
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Heart With No Companion

I've just finished reading "Heart With No Companion" by Michmak
(http://www.thepetulantpoetess.com/viewstory.php?sid=2954)
It was recced on the sshg_quiz; that's why I was reading it.

I had the feeling, all the way through, that I'd read it before, but I couldn't understand why I wouldn't have kept and reviewed such a well-written story. The characterisation was good (well, except for Harry, he was being a bit over the top in the unreasonable prat stakes) and the world-building was good (with a terribly ingenious and evil curse), and the development of the relationship between Severus and Hermione was good, and the descriptions of the world inside Hermione's head were vivid, and finally the peril had been overcome, and it looked like a happy ending...

And then the epilogue kicked me in the gut. It jerked the rug out from under me and made me cry. I hate it. I want to give the author a chocolate cake where all the sugar has been substituted with salt.

I am Not Happy.