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Harry Potter and the Final Journey

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Chapter – 28

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All those present in the room were simply quivering with excitement as they realized Albus Dumbledore had a plan.

"Harry can you call Peter and tell him to kill Nagini at once. She is a horcrux isn't she?" seeing Harry nod his head vigorously he continued, "Go on ask him."

Harry called Peter and after he answered Harry, Harry asked him to kill Nagini as Voldemort was planning to use her to sniff out traitors. When Peter heard that he was petrified and at once hastened to kill Nagini.

"When we receive news that Nagini is dead we shall make our move. Harry will come invisible and I will come as Lucius and the Order will come with me and Severus to Voldemort's hideout. Lucius till then we will make sure all those inside Azkaban are never given the opportunity to escape."

Seeing Lucius nodding his head in agreement, Dumbledore continued, "Snape and I will take the golem that Harry has of himself and present it to Voldemort and Harry you will make you visible at that time and cast the Draught of the Living Dead curse in Parceltongue with your wand in your right hand which will also have the sword at that time. So kindly re-merge your sword on to your right hand again."

Harry nodded this time and Dumbledore went on a little sadly, "we will use the killing curse, on the death eaters but," he cautioned, "This is a clandestine operation and as such I do not want anyone to know that Voldemort has fallen. Why, I will explain later."

"I will ask you Hermione, Ron, Draco and Ginny and the Twins to keep out of this," he held up a hand as all of them protested, "Harry has been through not only battles but also through training that is needed for what I am going to do. None of you at this time are adequately prepared. So I will ask you remain here in Hogwarts till we are back and this time all of us will be.

"Harry, we will not visit with your parents' till we can tell them he have won the war. Then all of us will go. Hermione can wait till then so that Umbridge will not get suspicious about your absence."

Sirius and Remus looked downcast at that. They had been counting seconds till they could go and meet with James and Lily. But Dumbledore was insistent and all of them listened to him, Harry Sirius and Remus reluctantly. Hermione was in two minds. She wanted to go on one hand and she wanted to stay away on the other as she was feeling very nervous.

All of them dispersed and waited for Peter to tell Harry that he had successfully taken care of Nagini.

It was almost two weeks before Peter came with news of any kind. Dumbledore had forbidden Harry to call him repeatedly as he assured Harry that the spell would make sure Peter did not slack. So Harry had to wait.

Dumbledore in the two weeks was very busy and he made a lot of preparations and the most important of them was to go to Azkaban and strengthen the wards there. He pressurized Fudge to allow him and accepted his condition to send Lucius Malfoy to help.

Albus, Moody, Malfoy, Tonks and Shaklebolt along with the other Order members and aurors from the Ministry went to Azkaban and added formidable wards and made sure the death eaters would never escape Azkaban and Voldemort could never release them without suffering huge losses.

Dumbledore had made the outer wards intent based and those would be the wards that would fry anyone who wanted to escape. The second line of attack was the wards based on the Dark Arts that would again destroy any one breaking in or breaking out.

Then the regulation wards that were very strong and the last two rings before anyone could successfully enter the prison were again wards of intent and wards based on the Dark Arts.

Once Dumbledore made sure Azkaban was secure he repaired to Hogwarts and set Snape, Hermione, Draco, Remus and Sirius to brew the most complicated potions and some deadly ones as well as many healing potions.

The next thing Dumbledore did was to strengthen the wards of the school and he took care of all the entrances and secret passages as well as the Chamber of secrets with Harry's help. He also made it register any animagus intrusion so that Wormtail or indeed anyone else could not come into the school in their animagus forms and then attack.

Sirius and Remus were staying secretly and were using the time to question Snape about his relationship with Harry. Sirius had been incredibly jealous of Harry's relationship with Snape and had almost boiled over when Harry had told Narcissa he owed the Malfoys a debt because she had taken the killing curse for the bloody bat.

But Remus had calmed him down and pointed out to Sirius that he would lose Harry if he tried to come between Harry and Snape and it would be the lesser of the two evils to befriend Snape. Sirius had almost hexed Remus for saying something like that but ultimately he had calmed down for Harry's sake.

Snape had been inclined to sneer but then a warning from Harry had made him sigh as he knew he had to get on with these two men and come up to the level of bare civility from the outright hostility that they had between them at present.

So Snape had accommodated and told them all they wanted to know. It was very difficult for him and his only solace was that it would make Sirius burn with jealousy. Harry had huffed at that and pleaded with Snape not to make Sirius jealous and when Snape refused to relent, had left it as a bad job.

So Snape, Sirius and Remus got on and by silent agreement Sirius and Snape decided to bury the hatchet for Harry's sake.

The days went slowly and this time there was no trouble from Umbridge as Voldemort alive had been openly acknowledged by the Ministry.

Harry also started the DA, this time with Dumbledore's permission and asked for McGonagall to oversee their activity class. Umbridge had not liked it, but she could not say anything as she could not find fault with it.

Two weeks later Wormtail called Harry and told him Nagini was dead. Voldemort was furious and at the same time Snape was called as was Lucius Malfoy.

He called all the Order members at once and also called for Harry. Hermione hugged Harry, "I have only found you. Come back safe." She whispered. "You bet sis." Said Harry smiling at her shaking a little, Hermione noticed it and hugged him harder and assured him he would be fine.

"You had better come back safe or else I will come up there and kill you all over again." Ron's voice was gruff and he was not looking at Harry, but looking down. "Yeah!" Harry nodded.

Ginny just hugged him. "Come back safe, please." For the life of her, Ginny could not stop the tears that were running through her cheeks.

Harry kissed her through her tears and hugged her once more and straightening his shoulders ran down to Dumbledore's office without looking back.

There Snape and Dumbledore were waiting for him. Snape nodded once and Harry immediately cast invisibility charms on him and as he had already merged his sword on to his wand hand, he was ready. Dumbledore threw some floo and checked for Lucius and as soon as Lucius came out of the floo, Dumbledore was ready to leave.

Harry hugged Snape and this time there were no words necessary. Dumbledore smiled at both of them hoping and praying both of them came away unscathed. If anything happened to either of them, he knew the other would not find the will to live.

All of them flood to Grimmauld Place and after a brief greeting to all the others there. Sirius and Remus had already been dispatched to Grimmauld Place to receive the members and hand them the special portkey that Harry had made for everyone of them before. Harry, Snape and Dumbledore were already wearing theirs.

Dumbledore had left the school to McGonagall and had told her to remain in a state of high alert. He also asked Sirius and Remus to go back to Hogwarts and stay there to guard the school, mainly as he knew Harry would not be able to take losing Sirius one more time and it was the day before the full moon and Remus was in no shape to fight.

All of them apparated to Voldemort's hide out and Snape after showing the layout and the impressive wards that surrounded them went in walking swiftly.

The order members in the course of the next half hour saw all the death eaters' apparating one by one and going inside. Arthur and Bill who was there saw Percy apparating in and walking through the wards and something in Arthur Weasley died at that moment.

Bill gritted his teeth and wondered if he could get Percy from where he was but Dumbledore seemed to guess his intention and placed a warning hand on him, shaking his head.

Albus waited for another half hour and then asked Harry to ask Snape if they could crash the wards.

This is what they should have the first time thought Harry as he marveled at the way Dumbledore had taken care of things. He had put so many things in place efficiently and so cleverly. He had moved swiftly and he was not afraid and that alone made Harry almost worship him. He had taken charge and he had done it in style.

The last time he had had to move slowly because of the lack of information about horcruxes and the means to destroy them. Now that he had both Harry was seeing a Dumbledore whose tactics made him get the name of the most powerful wizard and the only wizard Voldemort had ever feared?

They had to wait as Voldemort was ripping Snape's mind apart at that time and after twenty agonizing minutes Snape gave the signal without Harry asking him to. He sounded so weak and Harry was terrified. He implored Snape to take the portkey back to Hogwarts and stay there, but there was no response. That almost put Harry in a state of panic, but Snape weakly told him to calm down and assured Harry as best as he could that he was all right.

Harry went from being relieved that Snape would survive to being furious in a second. Severus was hurt and he was going to kill Voldemort.

Dumbledore then lifted the vial of polyjuice and drank it and became Lucius Malfoy. He took out the golem of Harry and made it life size and bent down and whispered something to Harry and then gesturing to the others to stay put and nodded to Harry.

Lucius Malfoy could not speak to save his life. The mark was killing him and it was all he could do to allow them to enter using his mark. As soon as Dumbledore now as Lucius Malfoy and Harry entered Lucius Malfoy took a vial of numbing potion and casting a few invisibility charms on him, waited at the door, whispering to Dumbledore to go in, with Harry's golem and an invisible Harry following silently behind.

The moment Lucius Malfoy entered Voldemort knew and he waited for Lucius to come in. Voldemort was livid that Lucius was late and was planning on a nice torture session. Nagini was dead and Voldemort had no idea how that had happened.

So had had called for the others to come and he was going to create the lost horcrux with the person who came in last. But before that he was going to find out who had killed Nagini and for that person death would be too good. He would make sure that Nagini's killer would die slowly and torturously.

He had suspected Snape and had almost killed him by tearing his mind apart. But there was nothing except loyalty to him and hatred of Black and a keen dislike of Potter with whom he had apparently interacted the day before.

Voldemort was frustrated and he was about to kill a few of his death eaters for the heck of it when, he came to know Lucius had come in. Dumbledore and the golem walked in with an invisible Harry behind him.

Dumbledore knelt down submissively towards Voldemort and placed the golem of an unconscious Harry at his feet. Voldemort was so startled at that he did not react for a second. That was all it took Harry who cast the Draught of the living dead with his wand pointing straight at Voldemort.

Voldemort fell down and all the death eaters went into a state of panic. Dumbledore immediately got up and calmed down the others and said he would take both Potter and his Lord to the inner chambers and secure Potter adequately and then come back and wait for their Lord.

It was almost too easy and Dumbledore aided by Snape leviated the bodies of Voldemort and the golem and walked in confidently telling the others to maintain silence. Wormtail came running in to Dumbledore and led both of them inside with the bodies floating ius may I have a crack at Harry. A small crucio or some mild curse will do. He has treated me badly. Once our Lord wakes up he will kill the boy and then I will not be able to curse him. Please?"

Dumbledore looked at him in disgust and cast a stunner at him and affixing portkeys he directed Snape to take Wormtail, Harry's golem and Voldemort to his office and wait there for him. Before Snape could take them Harry cast another Parceltongue stunner that would keep Wormtail in deep sleep till Harry woke him up.

Snape left and Dumbledore waited till the polyjuice had worn off with Harry. Lucius had come in stealthily and Harry silently walked up to him and removed his mark. A small tear fell down from his eyes and Lucius Malfoy smiled brilliantly at Harry and actually hugged him.

Harry then went right to the back and asking Dumbledore to signal the others to be ready to attack and after Dumbledore had alerted the others, Harry concentrated and holding his wand in his sword had bought down the wards using the knowledge he had assimilated from Voldemort's head before he and Snape had traveled through time.

Hearing the huge crash the Order members rushed in throwing the killing curse left, right and center. The death eaters were confused only for a second, before they started firing back. Meanwhile Harry before going in to join the fight, raised dark and parcel magic based wards that would automatically stop anyone from leaving by apparition or portkey.

Harry then went to join the fun. The first thing he saw was the killing curse that sped through the air towards Arthur Weasley. He just deflected it to another junior death eater and cast a stunner at Percy, who had tried to kill his own father. But before the stunner could hit him, another killing curse came from Bill whose aim did not miss. In this time too, Percy had died for making bad choices.

There was so much confusion and there were only sounds of killing curses being thrown about. The whole war unlike the massacre that took place in the other timeline was over in about ten minutes.

The Order had lost three people and killed twenty- three death eaters. Harry did not know the members by name and he looked on sadly as Dumbledore grief - stricken bent over then and hugged them. He sent the dead members to the Headmaster's office with a note that it was all over and demanded an oath from all the members present there that they will never discuss what had happened there.

"I do not want any one to know Voldemort is dead for the present. It will allow for the rise of many Dark Lords who will all come after Harry to kill him so that they can prove they are better and stronger than Voldemort. That is the reason I had handpicked only twenty members from the first circle whom I can trust implicitly and brought them here.

"As long as this place is warded off and everybody believes Voldemort is hiding to come back stronger than before, we will be safe. Is that clear? So if you do not want to be oblivated please come and give me your oaths that you will not reveal all this alive or even after you are dead by your will or a pensieve memory."

All the members came up and gave their oath and thus ensured the silence of Voldemort's fall forever.

All of them including Lucius Malfoy started rebuilding the wards and Harry with a brilliant idea, modified the wards so that it would allow any death eater inside but would not allow them to leave and anyone who would come without Harry at their side would also have their magic bound till he or she were investigated.

All the members then tired but jubilant went back to Hogwarts to the Headmaster's office and called for Sirius, Remus, Hermione, Ron, Draco, Ginny and the Twins.

All of them came anxiously to find Harry fussing over Snape. It was so shocking all of them stood at the door with their mouths open. The other members had left by then and Narcissa had come to see Lucius and she cried seeing his bare arm, kissing it and walking to where Harry was stroking Snape's hair while feeding him the anti cruciatus potion and hugged him hard.

"Thank you so much, thank you so much." She whispered to him crying all over him. Harry was so baffled that he did not know what to say and he only understood when Lucius showed him his left arm. He hugged Narcissa back and assured her it was no big deal and proceeded to do the same for Snape as well.

All the others watched as Harry so effortlessly removed the mark and realized for the first time that Voldemort was really gone. All the others who had been standing stunned all this while to see Harry tending to Snape, now rushed in and hugged Harry who grinned at them and pointed them to Voldemort.

Dumbledore now asked Harry to lead all of them to the castle and before they left went to take care of Umbridge. He told them he would come back soon with Minerva and Snape and Harry, Hermione and the Weasleys' should comeback after dinner by floo, that he would connect when he was at the castle.

Harry asked the Malfoys to come so that he could introduce them to his parents and then all of them took a portkey from there to the edge of the castle wards.

Harry then keyed in all of them as well as an almost dead Voldemort and unconscious Wormtail and all of them went inside.

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Harry led them to the main drawing room where Rip had told him his parents' were and ushered all of them inside. He had to drag Sirius as Sirius was choking and trying his best not to cry. All of them went in with Harry, Hermione, Sirius Remus and Snape at the very end. As the elf had said James and Lily Potter were there chatting with the other portraits in the drawing room. Turning her head Lily saw them first.

She beamed and yelled, "Albus, Moody, and Minerva! Merlin! Where is Harry?"

James turning at his wife's shouts scanned the room quickly and said in an extremely disappointed voice, "No Padfoot or Moony? Remus hasn't forgiven us has he and Siri? Why has he not come? Where is Harry Albus? He promised us that when he brings you he will bring them and our baby. How is she and does she know she is our daughter?"

At that he caught sight of Harry and the other three and stood staring at Sirius and Remus and tears slowly fell down his eyes. Then he caught sight of his daughter and they poured as he and Lily stood there drinking in their daughter's face, a daughter whom they had never seen or hugged or kissed.

Albus and the others moved out to give the privacy the Potters needed with Hermione and for James's reunion with Sirius and Remus. Snape also tried to go but was pulled in by Harry who smiled gratefully at the others and asked Rip to take care of them. Voldemort and Wormtail were taken to the dungeons and the others were led to the dining room, where all of them were fed and watered.

There Albus told the others who were not there about what had happened and also took their oaths. Molly wept as she thought of her son who lost his life for desiring the wrong type of power and shuddered to think what would have happened if Harry had not deflected the curse away from Arthur.

Harry and the others spent more than two hours after which a tearful but happy Lily and an ecstatic James walked into the dining room following the others who also trooped in sad but very happy and Sirius was beginning to heal as he talked to his best friend and brother.

Harry sat between Sirius and Snape and all of them had a great time for the next hours where Lily and James met Ginny and exchanged notes with the Twins and got introduced to the others, before Albus said regretfully that they must leave. Sirius, Remus and Hermione were also told once again what had happened and Albus not leaving anything to chance took their oaths as well.

Albus, Snape and Harry were deputed to take care of the remaining horcruxes and then Harry reminded then of Wormtail. James had devised a perfect punishment for the rat and all of them trooped down to administer it.

In the dungeons Harry enervated Wormtail, who got up and saw Voldemort first and then he saw the others. When he saw Sirius and Remus and a second later, James and Lily on the wall, he fainted and had to be enervated once again.

"You know what I am going to do to you Wormtail? It is what my dad asked me to. It is the perfect prank that will last all your life." Harry lifted his sword hand and with his wand, froze him first and then turned him into a rat and then fed him a stasis potion along with a holding spell and then cast three other spells and then cut off his silver hand. He replaced it with a wooden hand that would not harm any one and gave him to Dumbledore.

"Wormtail, you will spend the rest of your life as a rat, the rat that you are. You will be confined within the boundaries of Hogwarts and poor you, you will have to make sure that Mrs. Norris does not eat you. You will never turn into a human again and I have also asked Harry to place a repelling charm on you so that no one takes you home to be their pet.

"And the last good news that you must hear my dear traitor is the fact that we have found our daughter. Yes Pettigrew. Our baby girl is none other than Hermione. GOOD – BYE FOREVER!" the last came as an angry shout and Lily has to pacify him as he was trembling in anger and betrayal, a betrayal that had cost him far too much. Harry and Hermione were desperately restraining Sirius and Remus who were snarling as James was speaking.

Minerva conjured a plain coffin in which they placed Voldemort and Harry secured it with all kinds of sealing spells and took it back with him carefully keying him out of the wards.

All of them left for Hogwarts at the same time and from the Malfoys went to their home promising any help that might be needed from them. The Weasleys left to The Burrow to grieve for their son, that is Arthur and Molly to grieve for their son and Bill and Charlie to thank the great Goddess that Percy's curse had not found their mark.

Albus sent the others back to their dorms except Harry and Snape. Albus then requested Minerva to remove the sleeping spell he had placed on Umbridge and go about her duties.

Albus, Snape and Harry went back to the Riddle Manor and cremated the dead and then went to the graveyard where Voldemort was re-born and Harry buried him in an unmarked grave and sealed it with a light spell he had found in the Book and also closed the grave with a blood magic.

The war was over. Finally.

The three went back to school to begin to live their lives in peace. They had not decided to kill Voldemort as then the Dark Mark would vanish forever making way for other persons with evil intention to aspire for power.

Dumbledore's brilliance in dealing with Voldemort in a way that he was dead, yet alive solved all problems. The dark mark would never vanish and till that was there Dumbledore hoped people would think Voldemort was there as well.

"The curse on the Defense against the Dark Arts Post!" exclaimed Harry and thinking of the memories of Voldemort both Harry and Snape cast the counter and they felt the wards buzzing and then they fell quiet. That too, had been accomplished.

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The next three months were the most pleasant and the most wonderful time that Harry had ever known in his school life. He and Ginny were official now and so were Ron and Hermione. Umbridge had left three weeks later as someone kept pranking her and the pranks would always take the form of frightening her with all types of half – breeds.

Remus was invited to teach the subject he had already taught once before and Harry had also made him in charge of all his accounts along with Sirius. Both of them along with Snape had made Potter castle their home for good, having their own quarters there.

Hermione had written to her parents and Dumbledore had brought them to the Potters' castle one week-end where they met the very thankful and grateful Potters who told them what had happened.

Harry, Snape and Dumbledore had simply walked in to the secret places that they knew now and destroyed the horcruxes and the horror that was Voldemort was finally over.

The Slytherins whose parents were killed were initially baffled and bewildered at the disappearance of their parents and the absence of Voldemort. At first they had gloated over Draco, saying that their fathers' were chosen over the great Malfoy to work in secret for their Lord. But as days went by and they did not return, that pride turned to worry and fear.

A day before the Yule holidays which this year and from then on would always be celebrated in Potter castle, Harry having invited the Weasleys, Grangers', Dumbledore and the Malfoys, was looking through the Book when he remembered vaguely that the Founders' had told him in the other timeline about having a job for him.

He though long and hard and then remembered and slowly uttered the words 'Dreams' and placed a drop of blood on it. Immediately the words of the Founders' started appearing.

So you finally remembered our child of hope. We the Founders,' after hearing Rowena's words that what we envisaged for the wizarding world would not come to pass, were not deterred. We created horcruxes and then brought them to life and then now do not be horrified, child, killed our other selves. We all became poltergeists with special powers. All of us then put the four poltergeists into four bits of paper and placed them into this page marked, 'Dreams'.

This would allow us to look over not only the school but also sway the wizarding world on important issues. But we can come only if you truly think we can make a difference to your world. If you think so, then say 'revilotias hastialistaiasis' and we will come zooming out.

Harry was shocked and he trembled as he thought of what he had read. He ran from the Griffindor common room where he had been sitting and making the others shrug in confusion and calling to Snape in his mind on the way to come to the headmaster's office. Snape rushed as he caught the urgency in Harry's voice and met him at the gargoyle.

Both of them went in and Albus looked up smiling as they entered and then taking the state of Harry and Snape frowned in alarm.

Harry was panting and Snape looked disheveled. Before he could ask anything though Harry blurted out what he had read in the Book.

Albus and Snape stared at each other in shock before Snape understood what Harry was saying and he drooled. Salazar Slytherin! Merlin! What an honor to be in his presence. Albus saw that look and started laughing. He knew the world would only be a better place if they would come here and tackle the more difficult issues that their world was still having trouble accepting.

"Go on Harry zoom them out! The Founders' could only do a world of good in these times of such horrid prejudices and evil thinking. Go on and we shall present them to the school tonight."

Harry pointed his wand and uttered the words 'revilotias hastialistaiasis' and a second later four figures came literally zooming out of the Book. They flew around the room and then seeing Harry swooped down on him and hugged him almost smothering him.

Harry introduced them to Dumbledore and Snape and spent the rest of the time till dinner with the Founders.

Salazar Slytherin was easily the handsomest with black hair and clear blue eyes that shone of intelligence and cleverness. He hissed to Harry and Harry hissed back and they had a good time.

Godric Griffindor had shocking red hair and grey eyes and Rowena Ravenclaw had Black hair and dark blue eyes and looked as stately as they come and Helga Hufflepuff had gorgeous golden hair and stormy grey eyes. She and Salazar were easily the lookers of the Four and Harry, Snape and Albus were impressed by their simplicity, power and stature.

Harry to his surprise and shock got on best with the head of Slytherin House with whom he struck an easy camaraderie. Salazar was so clever and yet so logical and so unlike what he had been portrayed in the books that Harry was bowled over.

That night Harry made his way to the Great Hall grinning at the shock the school would have and was assaulted by questions from Ginny, Ron and Hermione.

"Where the hell did you disappear to?"

"Harry you had better tell me why you ran like that?"

"Harry? We are asking you something you know?"

Harry only grinned and looked up at the staff table and saw Snape sitting in suppressed excitement and Remus and Minerva pestering him and Snape was not saying a word.

Then Dumbledore came in and clapped his hands.

"I have an important announcement to make to all of you. From today onwards Hogwarts is complete and will be home to four more persons who are very dear to all of us. Please welcome the Founders, Salazar Slytherin, Godric Griffindor, Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff." He finished blandly and watched with laughter as the students and staff reacted to the Grand Entry the Founders' made.

Four spectacular figures zoomed around making all the students and staffs open their mouths with shock and most of them squealed and yelled or shouted.

They were the talk of the wizarding world for months to come and Harry was all but forgotten and Voldemort was an issue they felt was Salazar's problem.

It would take years but slowly the major issues of blood and breed were solved with the aid of the Founders' dynamism and intelligence.

Hogwarts had changed with Rowena taking their History classes and mind magic like Occlumency and Legilimency and Slytherin the Potion NEWTS and wandless magic, Griffindor Dueling and sword fighting and Hufflepuff Healing.

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It was now many years since Harry's fifth year when the Founders' had come home to Hogwarts and Voldemort was placed safe six feet under the ground.

Harry had married Ginny and had four children with her, two sons and two daughters. Ron and Hermione had also tied the knot and had three sons and were hoping for Twins, daughters this time.

Bill had married Fleur, and they had one very beautiful daughter. Charlie Weasley had settled down in Romania with his beloved dragons and had married a girl Kate who was equally crazy about them. They had a daughter.

Draco Malfoy had stunned everyone by marrying Luna Lovegood and they had two sons and a daughter. Luna was now in charge of the Quibbler, whose contents still made people laugh and Draco turn the other way thinking of it as a sacrifice for his love.

Albus Dumbledore had retired some time ago and was not allowed to go anywhere else by Harry. He had literally dragged the aged Headmaster to the Potter castle where he shared quarters with Snape whom he had always thought of as his son.

Sirius and Remus were also at the castle looking over Harry's vast property and after Harry's marriage with Ginny the beautiful castle was always full of people. Remus had married Tonks and they had one son who thankfully was not a werewolf due to the potions of Salazar Slytherin and Snape.

Molly and Arthur had finally come to terms with Percy's betrayal and now their happiness was their grandchildren. Molly and Narcissa got together very often rejoicing in the happiness of their children and their children.

Neville Longbottom to the surprise of everyone became an auror and a top ranking one at that. He married Parvati Patil and they had five children.

Lucius Malfoy became the Minister for magic and he was instrumental in bringing about many of the controversial changes in the wizarding world. He was ever thankful to Potter and Dumbledore and he always kept that in mind and dealt with the muggles and muggle born fairly. He never stepped out of line.

Draco became the second youngest potions master took over from Snape and taught potions till OWL year and continued to research potions, his work was always acclaimed.

Ron became the Keeper of the Chudley Cannons and he turned the luck and brought them out of their long losing streak. He became famous and made a lot of money and forged his own identity.

Hermione started a counseling firm for muggle born students and also continued her work for improving the rights of the elves, dwarfs, vampires, werewolves and so on. It was her work and that of Sirius that the Founders' used as a basis for the changes they began instituting the huge changes.

Hogwarts had changed and changed for the better. It was now churning out sturdy students who were a combination of the characteristics of all the Four Houses.

Remus was still the Defense teacher at Hogwarts. Sirius was involved heavily in fighting for rights on behalf of the half breeds and the so called Dark creatures.

Severus Snape became the second Slytherin to assume the mantle of Headmaster of the Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry. Minerva had retired when Albus had and had gone to live with her family though she met with Albus Dumbledore almost every other day. The new Transfiguration teacher and Head of Griffindor House was Harry Potter who could conjure the most wonderful things.

Harry was content, happy and fulfilled. He had triumphed through so many trials and tribulations and had still retained that special something that inspired everyone around him.

His specialty was conjuring big colorful cats to chase a strange mouse that surprisingly had a wooden paw. Albus had consulted the school board and had put up portraits of Lily and James in the Griffindor common room for their bravery and sacrifice that should inspire the generations to come.

The pranks that had been played as a direct result of that action had driven Snape to almost hex Dumbledore and accuse him of wanting to make Snape's tenure as headmaster as tough and as horrible as possible. Dumbledore had only twinkled and that had infuriated Snape to the point Harry had worried he might have a heart failure.

Fudge was now working with Umbridge in conducting public survey. Both of them unfortunately were always sent to conduct surveys on the half breeds. As such they always failed and were always in the firing line of their superiors.

The dreams of the Founders were finally coming true after a thousand years and the wizarding world had acquired a peace and an equality that was not found in their world in the last so many hundred years.

May it last long!

End of Chapter – 28

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