Author's note: On this day, the centennial of the October Revolution which happened in November, I give you the final chapter of Harry Potter Becomes A Communist. Goodbye, Comrades JOIN THE REVOLUTION AND WE'LL OVERTHROW CAPITALISM BY THE YEAR 2020

Nineteen years later, a new Hogwarts had risen from the ashes of the old. The building was now constructed in Socialist Classicism style and the old bourgeois paintings had been replaced by new revolutionary paintings done in Socialist Realism style. I was not the headmaster since that bourgeois hierarchy had long since been abolished. Instead, I was Chairman of the Hogwarts Revolutionary Politburo, which was not the same thing as being headmaster although I did run the school and use the office formerly used by the headmaster.

Sitting in the gold throne formerly used by the headmaster, I grinned with pride as the new crop of first years entered into the Great Hall. They and the older students were all wearing Young Pioneer uniforms, which was now the Hogwarts uniform. Many of the older female students were quite sexy, not that I cared about that, of course.

"Welcome to Hogwarts School of Marxism and Leninism," I explained progressively as I walked up to the Sorting stool. "Before you can take your seats, you will be sorted into the one house, Maostalin. Any student who is not sorted into Maostalin will be expelled!"

I took off my old ushanka with the Red Star on it so that it could start sorting the first years, but I was still wearing my gloriously tattered Che Guevara T-shirt as well as my ironic jeans and browline glasses. I also still had that scruffy beard and the hammer-and-sickle scar on my forehead. After the Sorting was over with only seventeen students expelled this time, I put my ushanka back on and beamed at all the eager young communists who filled the Great Hall.

"Comrades," I said in a proletarian voice, "let us begin this year at Hogwarts by singing the school song!"

With that, every single Hogwarts student stood up, raised one hand in a clenched fist, and began to sing:

Arise, young witches and wizards

Arise, with your magical wands

We will be the new Red Guards

And break the bourgeois bonds

March the path of Comrade Harry

He knew he had to kill and kill

Every fascist and reactionary

To achieve the people's will

Take heart, Comrade Students

For the red flag is not gone

The Internationale

Is now the Hogwarts song!

So comrades, come rally

And the last fight let us face

The Internationale

Unites the human race!