AN: SPOLIERS ALERT! If you haven't read all seven HP books, I would caution you.

HP and canon belong to JK Rowling.

When Dumbledore received Sirius's letter he immediately increased the amount of time and effort he put into researching Tom Riddle's past. He was able to pressure Horace Slughorn into giving up the true memory of Riddle asking him about Horcruxes, though he had to promise him a dinner invitation to the Flamels'.

In 1991, Dumbledore used the Philosophers stone to trap Voldemort's wraith within a large diamond. He then used the wraith in a variation of the compass spell to lead him to the Horcrux within Hogwarts (Ravenclaw's diadem). Unfortunately, the adjustments made to the spell meant it could only be used to find nearby Horcruxes.

In 1992 when Riddle's diary came into Hogwarts and the message about the chamber of secrets was put up, Dumbledore used the spell again to find the diary.

In 1993, Dumbledore determined the hiding place of the Slytherin necklace by using the memories he'd gathered on Tom Riddle. He took Severus Snape with him to the cave, but when they realized only one adult wizard can cross the lake, Snape convinced Dumbledore to let him handle it. Snape forced a muggle (he found him in a dark alley with an unwilling, underage girl) to drink the potion guarding the necklace. He killed said muggle and took the boat back across the lake. When they found the note inside the apparently fake necklace, Snape recognized Regulus Black's initials. It didn't take long for Dumbledore to convince Kreacher the house-elf to let him destroy the Horcrux.

In 1994, Dumbledore went (alone) to the Gaunt shack. He destroyed the Horcrux there (the Gaunt ring) but was hit with a deadly curse in the process. Snape was able to extend his life by a few months which Dumbledore used to find the next Horcrux. Snape suggested that Voldemort may have entrusted Horcruxes to other followers like he did with Malfoy, and Dumbledore spent two months going around interrogating Voldemort's remaining, trusted death eaters. He eventually interrogated Bellatrix Lestrange (who was in Azkaban for life) who had been asked to hide the Hufflepuff cup. A week later, all the Lestranges (there were three in Azkaban) caught Dragonpox and died. This meant that their Gringott's vaults were temporarily in the hands of the goblins, who started the process of looking for heirs. Dumbledore traded the goblins Gryffindor's sword for the Hufflepuff cup in the Lestrange vault. Thus, Voldemort's final Horcrux was destroyed.

When Dumbledore used to compass spell to find other Horcruxes (the spell wouldn't be able to pinpoint their location if they were far away, but it would show that they existed) and didn't find any, he destroyed Voldemort's wraith with fiendfyre. Thus, when Dumbledore died in 1995, he died in peace knowing that Tom Riddle (a.k.a. Voldemort) was gone for good.

Harry Potter returned to the UK twice; once in 1995 to attend Albus Dumbledore's funeral (he managed to schedule his OWL exams then too, just in case he needed British qualifications for something later on) and was surprised that Dumbledore left him stuff in his will. He visited Britain again when he was seventeen to access his full inheritance (and he also took his NEWTs then). Harry decided to become a curse breaker and apprenticed himself to Farid for five years before striking out on his own. Due to having lived a rather normal life for a wizard, the legend of Harry Potter, Boy-Who-Lived was nothing more than a footnote in wizarding history by the time Harry had reached adulthood. He had a very interesting life as a curse breaker, and died at the respectable age of 156, but never recovered the fame he had as a toddler, for which he was very thankful. He passed on the Potter invisibility cloak to his son, Sirius John Potter, as well as the Potter wealth, which Harry had increased using hard work and a talent for curse breaking.

A/N: John is Remus's middle name; I used Sirius's first name instead of his middle name because it's Orion (after his father) and he hated his father. Harry, while he loved his dad's memory, grew up with Sirius and Remus as his surrogate parental figures and so followed wizarding tradition in his own way by using their names for his son.

I left a several loose threads (Harry's other family, any relationships and families Sirius and Remus may have had) because I honestly am not sure what to do for that. I knew I wanted at least one Potter son to pass on the invisibility cloak to, but that's it. Harry's son could be the result of adoption, a brief relationship, marriage, or magical conception. Whatever, he has someone to pass his cloak on to. I also left the question of whether Harry received the other two Hollows from Dumbledore, or not. Again, I'm not sure. They could have gone to Snape, or Aberforth, or Dumbledore could have been buried with them. I know that Harry is unlikely to have developed any serious friendships with British wizards, or even met them (so the mother of his child was not Hermione, Ginny, Luna, Daphne, etc), and he wasn't overpowered or immortal. Harry is possibly in the top ten list of the most powerful wizards of his generation, but he's still within the normal range of magical power.

Anyone interested in writing a sequel to this, feel free to though I would ask that you let me know. For those who read my story, thank you and I hope you were entertained. For those who reviewed, an extra big thank you, your words motivated me to finish writing this!

I will go back and proof read this everyone in a while, but there won't be any changes to the plot. As an aside, I am also posting the first chapter of a new fanfic if any of you are interested.