Its message (destroy the bad guy equals live in peace afterwards) ...
Destroying the bad guy does mean that one lives in greater peace afterwards.
(was the world any safer after 1945? And what about the widespread hope of a "peace dividend" after 1989?)
In order: yes, the world was safer after 1945 than it would have been had Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union confronted each other with nuclear weapons; and there was a "peace dividend" after 1989 -- the 1990's saw immense economic growth and we are safer today, even in wartime, than we were when our enemy was a atomic-armed superpower. "Better" doesn't mean "perfect."
What, nineteen years of unbroken peace? On what planet?
We do not, in fact, know from the epilogue that the peace was "unbroken." Merely that nobody as deadly as Voldemort had appeared in that time. Presumably there were criminals, monsters, and such to deal with: it was in fact Harry's job to deal with them.
We also don't know what happens after those nineteen years. Note that 19 years would have nicely covered the Interwar Era of the 1920's and 1930's.
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Destroying the bad guy does mean that one lives in greater peace afterwards.
(was the world any safer after 1945? And what about the widespread hope of a "peace dividend" after 1989?)
In order: yes, the world was safer after 1945 than it would have been had Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union confronted each other with nuclear weapons; and there was a "peace dividend" after 1989 -- the 1990's saw immense economic growth and we are safer today, even in wartime, than we were when our enemy was a atomic-armed superpower. "Better" doesn't mean "perfect."
What, nineteen years of unbroken peace? On what planet?
We do not, in fact, know from the epilogue that the peace was "unbroken." Merely that nobody as deadly as Voldemort had appeared in that time. Presumably there were criminals, monsters, and such to deal with: it was in fact Harry's job to deal with them.
We also don't know what happens after those nineteen years. Note that 19 years would have nicely covered the Interwar Era of the 1920's and 1930's.