Chapter 23

A.N.- This is the FINAL CHAPTER of the story. I hope that you all have enjoyed it as much as I did writing it. Please review and always never lose confidence in your own writing. Much like I have at times. If you do, they'll always be that one person out there who'll pick you back up in the spirit and help you start your muse on writing again. Also, before I go, I am in the process of writing a fanfic of the MTV series Teen Wolf. I will not be putting it up until it is completed. So, if you wish to read it, I'm afraid that you're just going to have to wait until I am done. Pleasant reading to you all.

Now...the story continues.

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Finally coming to a stop to the very place where Dumbledore took his leap of death, Harry could hardly find it within himself to care as Voldemort sent out curse after curse his way, blocking and dodging them just to further anger him. Often at times feeling that anger come out whe Voldemort began to resort to muggle means of torment. Kicking Harry.

Coming to a stop at the very top, Harry then grasped onto the outer wall, the ground open and waiting for one of them to fall.

Keeping his body and face turned towards Voldemort, Harry huffed out tiredly as he quickly wrapped his arms around Voldemort and plunged them down off the Astronomy Tower where Voldemort used his special apparating techniques to keep not only Harry but also himself from falling to their dooms.

"You were right Tom, now it's time to end this, so let's finish it...TOGETHER!"

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Inside the castle and all around, screams were heard. Curses were shouted and the breaking and cracking of rubble echoed.

The students fought against the army of Voldemort valiantly. Whenever they couldn't the Cullens and Malfoy's along with the help of the healed Severus, disposed of their enemies. Breaking their necks, arms, legs, sometimes even biting into their necks to drink away their blood, leaving them alive but as weak as a new born kitten.

As Hermione and Ron finally located Voldemort's last horcrux, his snake Nagini, they tried but failed a few times to kill her with the basilik's fang.

Seeing no other choice but to run, Ron did so with Hermione hot on his feet right behind him only to suddenly slip and fall. Easily becoming prey for the now hungry python. Her tongue tasting the air surrounding Hermione's prone shaken form, her mouth opening, fangs out and ready to strike. Hermione screamed in fear as Ron could do nothing but stand there and watch as his best friend was about to be eaten by a horcrux snake.

Suddenly, a large black blur faded into a solid form infront of her fallen figure. Glancing up, shocked to see that it was their supposed 'dead' headmaster Severus Snape, he quickly shouted out for Hermione to get up and run.

"Granger get up! Don't sit there like an idiot! GET UP YOU FOOLISH GIRL!"

Standing up faster than she ever thought possible, Hermione instantly grasped onto her fallen wand from where she had accidentally dropped it on her fall, and raised it in a poised attack position. Ready and waiting to curse that damn snake should she be able to get past Professor Snape, Hermione turned back towards Ron quickly to glare at him, her eyes accusing him of leaving her behind, not helping her in her time of need, just standing there like an idiot leaving her to her fate as a snake's next meal.

Turning back towards the front, Hermione watched in awe as Severus quickly grasped ahold of Nagini behind her head, holding a firm grip on the back of her neck and towards the middle of her body to keep her from wriggling away and attacking more students.

Spotting Neville, now awaken and slightly confused with the sword of Gryffindor in his hand, Hermione quickly shouted for him to kill the snake. That it had been made into an object for Voldemort and needed to be destroyed immediately.

Swinging the sword down onto the wriggling snake within Snape's grasp, Neville watched in shock and surprise as a dark cloud of mist wafted up from the collapsing snake and dispersed into the air.

Finally, the last horcrux was destroyed, now all that Harry needed to do was kill Voldemort and the war would finally be over.

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As Harry and Voldemort raised their wands and casted their most prominent curse at each other, Voldemort suddenly felt the wand in his hand that he had stolen from Dumbledore's crypt, start to crack down the middle. The wand was now all too soon going to be utterly useless to him.

Casting his 'Avada Kedavra' one more time, and Harry raising Draco's disarmed wand that's allegence shifted over to him and casted his most favorite spell. 'Expelliarmus.'

The bright green and red beams of light shot out from each other's wands and hit full frontal in the middle.

With the memories of his parents, his dead godfather Sirius, Remus and Tonks, and his friends, as well as Draco Malfoy and his new family inside his head, with the students and people of the world counting on him to finally put an end to this madness, Harry felt his power increase exponentially.

His bright red beam of light suddenly grew more powerful and pushed back Voldemort's Avada Kedavra bright green curse right back at him.

The crack Elder Wand of Dumbeldore's now sailed through the sky and into the palm of Harry's left hand. Voldemort, suddenly feeling himself start to chip away like dying fire emblems in the wind, Harry carefully staggered to his feet as Voldemort's last sight for now and always was the cloudy sky as he disappeared completely into the wind. Forever gone, forever defeated, forever dead. At long last, the war was finally well and truly over, and peace can at last start heal the wounds of time.

Walking along the narrow pathway with his two best friends at his side, Harry decided that for the best of the world to never come out with another power hungry Voldemort, he was going to break the already cracked Elder Wand and throw it away to where no one else would be able to find it let alone be able to use it ever again.

Making their way back into the castle to celebrate their victory, Harry walked over towards Draco and the much calmer but still protective Jasper surrounded by the members of their family, including their now vampire former headmaster, Severus Snape.

"Thank you all for your help. Especially you professor. We would never have won the war if I hadn't discovered exactly what had happened that night at Godric's Hollow so very long ago. And now, maybe you can finally let go of my mother's memory and live in the here and now and learn one step at a time to live and love once again." Harry proclaimed, earning himself a glare from Severus and a smirk from Draco, knowing that he was well within his rights to tell him what everybody had been trying to say to the man for years but never had the guts to do so.

"I'll...think about it Mr. Potter." was his disgruntled reply.

"Thanks, that's all that I can ask of you then. As for you Draco, I'm alive and survived the war. Brought it to an end, now tell me, what's the secret that you've been hiding?" Harry asked him curious to finally know just what it was that Draco had been keeping quiet about, noticing out of the corner of his eye Ron and Lavender getting a little heavy with the kissing and Hermione now glancing somewhat nervously but interested in the diection of none other than Severus Snape as he finished his drink of specially ordered Centaur's blood.

Glancing up at Jasper for a moment before grasping tightly onto his hand, their wedding bands shining brightly in the fire lit background, Draco then rested his other hand lightly onto his belly and smiled. Turning his attention back towards Harry, Draco then at long last, shared with Harry his beloved secret.

"Jasper and I...are going to have a baby."

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Epilogue

19 Years Later

Walking carefully through the crowded passageway on towards the Platform 9 3/4 at the Kings Cross Station, a family of a husband, wife and their three children two boys and girl, happily walked by unnoticed pushing their carts and trunks full of their school belongings towards the magical entrance that would take them into the Wizarding World where their children were finally going to be sent off to Hogwarts.

Going through portal and spotting many familiar faces, a near twenty year older version of the 18 year old Harry Potter along with his beloved wife Ginny Weasley-Potter, and their three children, oldest son James Sirus Potter, second son Albus-Severus Potter (which got Harry quite a nasty curse from Severus himself when he read up in the Daily Prophet about Harry's second child and was curious about the child's name all thanks to his intellectual wife) and lastly, their beloved daughter Lily; immediately smiled and waved to their friends.

Spotting Ron Weasley and his new wife Susan Bones, not too surprising that Lavender Brown was found to have been cheating on Ron three years into their relationship with an old boyfriend of hers, later met Susan and got to know her. Their first year (11 yrs old) daughter Rose Weasley was going to be sent off to Hogwarts and soon, their young son Hugo a year or two after his sister.

Next, a very surprising couple that some still viewed as not right or very odd in their world, Hermione Jane Granger-Snape the wife of vampire Severus Snape, now nearly matching his appeared age and their two children 10 year old son Tobias Snape and first year (11 yrs old) daughter Amelia Snape awaiting to join the others on the train for Hogwarts. Their daughter was up first and then a year later, their son.

After them were Neville Longbottom and very shockingly, his happy-go-lucky never-changing wife, Luna Lovegood. Standing a few feet away from Severus Snape and his family, with his third year (13 yrs old) daughter Apricota and first year (11 yrs old) son Franklin; whom was going to be joined by according to Harry's suspicions, his own son Albus-Severus, Draco's son Scorpius, Hermione's daughter Ameila and lastly, Ron's daughter Rose.

Up next in his line of sight, was none other than Remus and Tonks' small family that consisted of their 20 year old son Teddy, whom was now the same age Warren and quite a grown man, watching his beautiful younger sister, Ella aboard the train for her fourth year (14 yrs old).

However all too surprising among them all, were the children of none other than Draco Malfoy and his vampire husband Jasper Whitlock, two sons and a daughter. Their first born son, named after Jasper's long deceased brother, Warren whom was now going on to his twentieth birthday, their second child was their fourth year (14 yrs old) daughter Cassandra and lastly their third and final child; their second born first year (11 yrs old) son Scorpius.

Harry thought that they were going to be enrolled in an American wizarding school, since he last heard that Draco and his husband still lived back in Washington to be close to his parents and family, but as he took notice that they had everything to complete a years worth of work and study at Hogwarts with them, he smiled to himself upon knowing that his own family were soon going to be given a run for their money. Especially if Draco had anything to say about it.

Kneeling down to speak with his son Albus whom of which was slightly nervous about getting into Slytherin, Harry smiled down at his young son and told him a special secret.

"Albus-Severus Potter, you were named after the two most brilliant headmasters that Hogwarts has ever known and one of them was infact a Slytherin himself as well as one of the most bravest men I ever met. If you want to go into Slytherin that's great. If you want to be in Gryffindor, that's great too. But I'll tell you a little secret. The Sorting Hat will always take your opinions into account."

"Really?" Albus-Severus asked his father.

"Yep. Now, it's time to board the train. Have fun and write home every now and then, you know how much your mother worries, and don't worry so much about making friends I'm sure that you'll be brilliant no matter what."

"Thanks dad. I love you."

"I love you too son."

Watching with pride as the train left the station and on it's journey for Hogwarts, Harry glanced back at all the smiling faces of those he's come to know and love in his life, before turning back with the other waving and crying parents and waving himself good bye to his two sons, now onboard the train to Hogwarts and soon off on their own little adventure.

'I just hope that they don't go stirring up trouble or that trouble goes looking for them like it did me.' Harry thought to himself as he soon left the now nearly deserted train station to apparate home with his beautiful wife and daughter, finally joyful that in all these long years peace has come about and remained intact after the loss of so many lives sacrificed for the cause.

'And may it forever remain until well beyond my death.' was Harry Potter's last thought as he wrapped his arm around Ginny who was holding their daughter Lily and apparated to their happy little get away house of Godric's Hollow.

After watching forlornly as their children were sent off to the same school that he went to back in his youth as a human wizard, Draco leaned his head down upon Jasper's shoulder as his arms wrapped around Draco's thin physique, sighing loudly wishing that they didn't have to leave his side.

"Something wrong darlin?" were the soft spoken words whispered into his ear by his beloved husband.

"No, I just wish that they didn't have to go, I miss them already."

"I do too love, but it's all apart of growing up, and it was time for them to spread their wings to find their own barrings in life without us standing in their way to try and tell them what to do."

"I know that, I just want them to come back already, I want to hold them one last time."

"You'll see them again over the winter holidays. Trust me love, we'll be seeing them quicker than you realize."

"Really Jas?"

"Of course my little Dragon. Did I ever tell you that you were well and truly meant to be mine?"

"No, I don't think so."

"Well darlin, you are. You were always meant to be mine for all eternity."

"And you certainly saw to it that I remained ever faithfully yours didn't you when I took my beloved vows on our bonding day."

"That I did love, that I did. I guess it just goes to show you darlin, to never underestimate a vampire Slytherin. No matter what era they're from."

"Yeah, I guess it does. I guess it does."

"Draco?"

"Yeah?"

"Do you want to have another child?"

"Jasper! Really! I...I don't know."

"If having another child will keep you well and truly happy as I aim to make sure that you are for the rest of our long eternal lives, then I want to have another child."

"Really? You really mean it?"

"Yes."

"Oh...good then. I guess this means that I can finally tell you what I was trying to say this morning before the kids woke up hammering on our door to get ready to take them to the station."

"What is it love?"

"Jas...in ten months...we're going to have another baby."

THE END