- EPILOGUE: The Perfect Balance -

The place could be considered just like any other wizarding television studio. Scores of scripts, heaps of reminders and drafts with funny doodles, along with other things of the sort were strewn everywhere and the occasional swish of a flying memo airplane zooming in and out could be heard in a distant faint. A number of Luminariums or light-emitting birds in chipped golden cages were installed around various places to assure a most direct and best quality of lighting inside the studio. The television crew were buzzing around all over the place, making rapid notes and writing down crucial details with their weathered and scratchy quills, while others were occupied with checking an assortment of clockwork instruments and a few were quite busy adjusting the camera in position. On the stage set of the studio, a cosmetics expert was brushing up the guest speaker with last minute tinge of make-up, and alongside the host was hastily reviewing her notes and preparing herself mentally that her talk show was about to begin.

Certainly, this television studio and its bustling environment might have resembled any other regular studio, but in fact, it couldn't be any more different. Because WTN - Wizarding Television Network was considered the top for broadcasting the most current news and finest quality entertainment shows all around the wizarding world.

Gertrude Waterbanks, the talk show host put her notes aside and then asked an administrator who was passing by. "Are we ready yet?"

"Almost…" he replied, consulting his clipboard. "We're just waiting for an owl from the Ministry Officials to give a thumbs-up on showing those scenes from the Seriously-Determined-Elf-Rebellion Party led by Dobby, the ex-house elf and that Granger woman." Just then, a tawny owl swooped inside from one of the open windows and landed on the administrator's shoulders. "Ah… here it is…" He ripped open the envelop that the owl had brought from the Ministry of Magic and quickly scanned it. "Green light from the Ministry… COME ON EVERYBODY… LET'S GET THE SHOW STARTED!"

There was a sound of a hectic rustle, as the crew quickly switched on the various recording apparatuses with the tip of their wands while Gertrude and her guest speaker settled themselves on the sofa present on the stage set. The camerawizard looked at the two ladies seated before him and then notified. "We're going live... in three, two and one second." And with a soft clicking sound, the camera sprung to life in front of the ladies.

Gertrude smoothed down her metallic purple robes before grinning at the camera. "Good evening everyone. I'm Gertrude Waterbanks and welcome to another episode of Magic Talk Today. I have a very special guest with me here, tonight. She's a magnificent witch, full of talent, intellect and mind you, has great sense of hilarity. But more importantly, she has just discovered the Rock of Sapientia and of course, I am talking about none other than... Shauna Swirl."

There was a roar of cheers and clapping from witches and wizards inside the studio, along with a whoop of delight from a very apparent and excited fan of Shauna Swirl. Gertrude had to shake her head with slight amusement before facing the visitor in her talk show. "We are extremely happy to have you here, Shauna."

"The pleasure is all mine." Shauna was smiling. On first glance, she could easily be considered as an extremely smart lady. Her crisp suit robes were the colour of the unimaginable bluest oceans, with her long black hair elegantly styled into a perfect knot but it was clearly the emerald glow in Shauna's eyes that captivated people all around her; they seemed to radiate a sense of sheer happiness and perhaps a furtive contentment. On the whole, her appearance was very proper and well-trimmed; however, the necktie Shauna was wearing totally gave away that she was a massive fan of Quiddtich as it was covered with an assortment of broomsticks, snitches, bludgers, quaffles and golden hoops.

"We are all ears." Gertrude Waterbanks uttered; she seemed quite excited. "Tell us about the rock you recently discovered."

Shauna spoke with well-lit confidence. "Well... The Rock of Sapientia is an extremely powerful and a reactive element. Sapientia is actually a Latin equivalent of the word 'transferable wisdom'. Therefore as the name suggests, this rock carries the ability to transfer some of its unique intelligence to a witch or a wizard. It can be in the form of anything - insight, prudence, knowledge or intellect."

"That's very interesting." Gertrude was nodding. "And how did you discover this 'supposedly' legendary rock?"

"All the ancient scriptures and books revealed that this rock was nothing more than a myth." Shauna explained. "When I received my Sorceress Scientist Degree, I started thinking about all the manifestations that occurred in the last few centuries. Especially the Vera Delta Case, which I found absolutely fascinating. I mean, how could just a regular witch like Vera invent thousands of effective spells in just a week? I knew there had been some sort of 'external' help. I spent two years working on her case, and eventually I found out that she had used the Rock of Sapientia for the inventing purposes and had hidden it inside one of the Himalayan Mountains just before her death."

"And what do you plan to do with it?" Gertrude wanted to know.

Shauna replied with a laugh. "I've already handed the rock to the Ministry. I'm pretty sure that the Department of Mysteries can find better uses for it than I can."

"Let's talk about your past." Gertrude's face suddenly grew serious. "Shauna, I realise that it must have been a dreadful ordeal what happened to you seven years ago, concerning the Triad Prophecy. But I am just curious. What was going through your head when you suddenly woke up as yourself in the Forbidden Forest the night of the Great Battle?"

Shauna took a deep breath as if bracing herself to recall a number of her painful memories "I was feeling lost and terribly confused, in the literal sense. It was as if, one moment I was in my room in London and the next... I was the midst of the Forbidden Forest covered in dirt and blood. I was seeing people whom I've never met in my entire life before, and they were jabbering what seemed like gibberish to me. Then a white bearded man... that was Professor Dumbledore, well… he sort of looked at me and eventually figured out that I wasn't Ginny Weasley anymore... but just plain and simple Shauna Swirl. He told me later that I had probably skipped a whole year of my life and that's when I sort of lost my mind."

Gertrude's eyebrows rose. "Of course, back then you had no idea that you were a witch."

"That's correct." Shauna stated. "Ginny Weasley had been given my body to execute the essence of the Triad Prophecy. And I don't remember anything about it. It was just as though I hadn't existed at all for that certain period."

"And do you think that spending a couple of months at the Hogsmeade Rehabilitation Centre has helped you understand what had been going on?" Gertrude was considering.

"Definitely." Shauna was in complete agreement. "At first, it seemed that everything had been a just horrible nightmare. I didn't have an inkling of what had happened, nor what was in store for me. I had been a muggle all my life and I was going crazy seeing things that didn't make a single sense to me. But through careful counselling and proper therapy, I was informed of the truth. That's when I found out that there was a whole other world, co-existing with the muggle plane. That, there was magic all around us, with wands, spells and charms, as well as wonderful candies like Bertie Botts Every Bean Flavour, Chocolate Frogs and Drooble's Best Blowing Gum. And I was an important part of this world... a witch."

Shauna paused for a few seconds, her face full of strong emotions. "I also had been told that another witch had taken over my body for a whole year because she had been killed... and that she had desperately needed to fulfil an inevitable prophecy. It took me a lot of time to absorb and then accept all of it… especially when I found out that these things weren't even considered normal in the wizarding world."

"I see." Gertrude was listening carefully. "Were you angry?"

"I was at first." Shauna confessed as she crossed her slender legs. "In fact, I was furious at the world for doing this to me. I was angry with my parents, Professor Dumbledore and especially at Ginny Weasley for 'borrowing' my body. But, I slowly realised that none of them really had any control over what had happened. I softened up a bit, especially when I started speaking with people like the Weasleys, who explained a lot of things that finally started to make some sense."

"And so... you began your second life?" Gertrude determined.

"Yes I did." confirmed Shauna. "I was enrolled into Hogwarts… 'again'. I had been sixteen then, no way near the age of eleven when one should begin. So the teachers decided to accelerate my studies by tutoring me personally, and therefore I managed to graduate from Hogwarts in four years time instead of seven."

"Absolutely fascinating..." Gertrude was speaking. "And now you've become a renowned wizarding scientist?"

Shauna grinned widely as she nodded her head. "Moreover, I love and enjoy every moment of it. Science and Magic really do make a wonderful combination together and it's very interesting when you're able to discover or invent something that can be of great use to wizards and witches. In fact, I believe that the advancements in the magical technology should be given much more importance in order for us to progress as an actualised community."

"Everybody has been dying to ask this question." Gertrude mentioned, as an elevated grin formed on her face. "How does it feel to be married to one of the most famous and gifted International Qudditch players that this world has ever come across?"

Without warning, a semi-blinding light was flashing over the two ladies, but that lasted only for a second, and as what muggles would call a three-dimensional hologram instantly appeared in its place, showing a scene of blurred, scarlet–blue streaks rocketing to and fro across a high, green field. It took less than a mere moment for the viewers at home to recognise that the scene displaying before them was none other than that of the Qudditch World Cup which had taken place only a couple of days ago. Breathtaking as the winning scene was, as these Qudditch players had taken England to World Cup victory, everyone watched in recurring amazement as the muddled image of a seeker tore after the fluttering golden snitch and eventually catching it in a most daring and spectacular dive.

The crowd in the background of the scene exploded with happiness, just as seeker's team-mates mindlessly threw themselves onto him to celebrate England's triumph. A few minutes later, another clip from the World Cup match was being played; showing the same seeker doing a sort of a victory dance with the snitch in one hand, as he accidentally knocked himself out-cold with his very own broomstick and then falling flat on his face, glasses askew, in front of the stunned and now silenced Qudditch spectators.

Shauna had to laugh heartedly at it. "This scene always cracks me up and it would hardly classify Harry as 'famous', but more like incredibly 'stupid'. But I must say... I love being his wife and he is the most wonderful man in this universe. We have a terrific life together and sometimes I feel that it was clearly worth going through all those terrible happenings, because I would never have met him in the first place if they hadn't happened."

"And how did you and Harry Potter fall in love?" Gertrude was very amused.

"He used to come and visit me at the rehab centre." Shauna revealed. "Harry always said that he had this uncanny attraction towards me that he couldn't have explained. I believe it was probably because of Ginny Weasley, his first love. You see, Harry was in love with her when she had died the first time around. And he fell in love with Ginny again, when she was present in my body. Of course, then Harry had thought his love had been for... well... for 'Shauna'. He realised the truth much later."

She sighed and continued. "Harry and I had talked about a lot of things when he visited. He confessed his everlasting love for Ginny Weasley and how he had lost her, twice. Harry poured out his soul to me probably because he'd thought I'd understand, as I had been quite 'close' to Ginny. And surprisingly, I did understand. It was strange because I had never known Ginny Weasley. But, I have always felt that she had left a bit of her touch in me..."

"What happened next?" Gertrude was curious, as probably the audience in the wizarding world.

"My heart had instantly given in to Harry, as I scented his breath of life." Shauna went on. "And in due time, I had fallen in love with him. But I hadn't told him that then because I wasn't sure of how he'd react to it. Don't want to admit it, but I also had been very afraid… terrified of asking him to love me back. His heart seemed just so fixed with the remembrances of Ginny that it seemed cruel and heartless… if I took that away from him." Her revelations were interrupted with a long pause. "Anyhow, Harry graduated from Hogwarts a year later, began his Qudditch career and I didn't get to see him for quite a few years. Our paths eventually crossed when I decided to visit Ginny Weasley's grave one day. Harry seemed so grown-up then... I guess he had finally learned to move on without Ginny. We started talking again about many things. And during our conversation... I think Harry had realised something... that he was in love with me as well. That exact moment... he asked me to marry him." She smiled graciously at the memory.

"Just like that?" Gertrude seemed extremely surprised as she equivocally raised her eyebrows. "Even whilst he had never dated you or made an attempt to get into a proper relationship... he proposed to you?"

Shauna was nodding her head. "I think so." Next, an illuminated smile was lighting up her beautiful face. "Although it was supposed to be a very uncomfortable situation, but somehow we were both at complete ease. It felt very natural and I believe Harry and I were so much in love with each other that we both sensed that dating and relationships weren't really all that necessary."

"And of course, you accepted his surprising proposal..." Then Gertrude looked cheerfully at the camera. "Seems like a fairy tale to me." Facing her guest, the talk show host questioned Shauna. "I understand that Harry is often called by the Department of Defence. Is he also employed by the Ministry?"

Shauna didn't have to think twice. "You might say that he is, in a manner of speaking, a part-time Auror. Sometimes the Ministry requires 'special' skills that only Harry can provide, like his ability to communicate Parseltounge. It comes in very handy when they have to negotiate with villainous snakes."

"I'm very curious about your kids, Shauna." Gertrude was saying. "How are they like?"

"Those two are the naughtiest lot I have ever seen." Shauna admitted with an unusual grin on her face. "But the weirdest bit is that I love them with all my heart and so does their father. I keep telling myself... Harry and I are very blessed with Aaralyn and Zachary."

Gertrude smiled. "So, do you have any plans for the summer?"

"Oh, yes." Shauna assured confidently. "Harry's best friend, Ron Weasley and his wife, Hermione are coming with us to a trip to the highlands of Kenya. I recently heard that the Alchemist's Cure is hidden somewhere there. I was planning to begin a research on it."

"That sounds very adventurous." Gertrude remarked as she stood up from the sofa, indicating that Shauna's part in the show was almost finished. "And I wish you the very best of luck on your trip. Shauna, thank you very much for taking some time to speak with us and to the world. You've been a fascinating guest."

Shauna also rose. "Thank you, for having me on Magic Talk Today. It has been a real pleasure."

Both ladies shook hands, and then Gertrude Waterbanks turned towards the running camera once more and spoke with a smile. "Don't leave your seats yet, because just after the break we'll be talking to Dobby, the ex-house elf about his shocking and madcap decision to liberate all house elves from their domestic imprisonment. So please stay tuned to Magic Talk Today and to the rest of the mind-turning stories from around the wizarding world…"

An hour later, Shauna Swirl-Potter had reached her home at the revived Godric's Hollow. She took out her wand from her purse, pointed at the door and voiced. "Patefacio." It swung open instantly and she stepped inside her Arabian styled living room.

Just then her bespectacled husband came up and encircled his arms around Shauna. "You're back..." Harry muttered as he began smothering her with small kisses.

"Did you see it?" Shauna demanded; her heart was beating a little faster than usual. 'Did you…?"

"I wouldn't have missed it for the world." Harry was kissing her neck. "You were wonderful."

Shauna let out a breath of relief. "I was so nervous! It's amazing how I got through the show without embarrassing myself in front millions of witches and wizards."

"That's because you're a beautiful and talented person, Shauna." Harry insisted looking profoundly into her eyes. "And a genius. MY genius!"

"Oh Harry..." Shauna kissed him back and she loved him so bloody much. But unfortunately, his rounded glasses were getting in the way. She playfully took then off and started to kiss him everywhere.

"I should get rid of them... shouldn't I?" Harry considered, obviously enjoying the sensation.

"No... no!" she declared. "That's your identity... these rounded glasses make you 'the famous Harry Potter'. And besides, I love them!" All of a sudden she noticed something odd; there had been no noise in the house since she arrived. "Where are the children?"

"I dropped them off at Ron's." Harry answered as he pulled her closer, his voice was now husky. "I wanted to be completely alone with you."

"That's not a half-bad idea." Shauna confessed, kissing Harry's lightning shaped scar on his forehead. "What do you want to do?"

Harry answered her with a devilish question. "What do most married couples like to do?"

"Eat!" Shauna exclaimed, making a dash towards the kitchen. "What did you make for dinner?"

Harry was puzzled. "I thought cooking was your department, Shauna."

"It is. But we agreed you'd prepare dinner tonight because I had to do a show." she reminded him as- a-matter-of-factly.

"Oh... I completely forgot!" Harry burst out apologetically, putting his spectacles back on. "What the heck... let's eat out."

"I can't." Shauna informed him, plopping on a couch. "Too tired."

"Alright then... I'll go and get us something to eat." Harry said as he pulled of his coat off the rack. "What would you prefer? Poltergeist's Pizza or the Bawling Burger Joint?"

"Pizza sounds alright…" she got up and went towards Harry. "Now, don't take too long."

"I won't." promised Harry as he gave his wife a quick kiss. "I love you, Ginny."

"Ginny...?" Shauna's face fell, as it instantly metamorphosed into an immensely hurtful expression.

"Oh no..." Harry exclaimed, realising what he had just done. "Oh damn... it was a slip of the tongue, Shuana... I didn't mean that... I swear!"

Shauna angrily turned away from him and was stomping away, when Harry grabbed her arm and scowled. "OY! Missy... don't get mad at me?"

She twirled annoyingly to face him. "You still are madly in love with her, aren't you?"

Harry was a loss for words. "Well, I..."

"I want to know the truth." Shauna demanded, crossing her arms and at the same time trying to avoid the hurtful flicker in her husband's eyes.

"Well then... Yes." Harry confessed truthfully. "I do still love Ginny."

"No..." Shauna was in denial; she covered her face with her hands.

Harry reached out to touch her, but she pulled back abruptly. She was so enraged that she felt like giving him a nice and firm slap him in the face. But she restrained that desire and looked up at him. "But I am your wife, Harry!" she yelled. "I have been always faithful to you throughout the years! I have given you my body, with my love and hell lot of support! And I have carried your two children in my belly and I'm working my butt off tired raising them! You're supposed to ONLY love me!"

Shauna paused for a moment to catch her breath. "But you continue to love Ginny to such a GREAT extent that on impulse... you call me by her name! How could you do that to me…?"

Harry appeared horrified at this. "Shauna..."

"Am I so insignificant compared to your lovely Ginny that you try to find the traces of her in me?" she demanded through painful tears; her heart seemed deeply wounded. "Well… guess what, Harry… SHE'S GONE! GONE! It's SHAUNA in this cursed body now, SO DEAL WITH IT!"

Harry was now getting annoyed. "That's enough, Shauna! Didn't you hear me when I said that it was an honest slip? I didn't mean anything by saying Ginny's name… it was a mistake!"

"You mean... that it was mistake marrying me!" Shauna retorted powerfully. "I've always suspected that you did it because then I would constantly remind you of your lovely Ginny Weasley. Then why did you even bother..."

She was cut-off from completing her sentence because Harry had unexpectedly grabbed her left wrist, then pulled her into his arms and mercilessly devoured her lips. "Tell me... if this is a mistake..." he was whispering into her ear.

Shauna was too hurt to succumb into his dynamic kiss. With an adequate amount of force, she pushed him away from her. "How dare you try to kiss me... when you so openly and… directly confessed that you love… her far better than you'll ever love me?"

"Listen Shauna... I love you." Harry was assuring her sincerely. "I love you more than anyone in this world. There is no one else for me..."

She was getting very incensed at him. "That's a total lie! If you had really loved me more than anything, then you should have COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN about Ginny!"

"Shauna..." Harry tried to reason. "That's not fair."

"Just forget about her... please…" Shauna begged as her green eyes sparkled with tears.

Harry remained silent for quite a while, as if profoundly absorbing in the emotion on his wife's wilting face. His emerald eyes were radiating the feel of the deepest galaxy… very much vast, powerful and riddled with so many obscure mysteries. He then gazed at Shauna and with a heavy sigh, he revealed to her what was on his mind.

"Here I am and you don't understand me…" Harry was saying. "You don't seem to know that I need you so much. You're not aware of my feelings… or the reason I'm breathing…"

"What… what the hell are you talking about… Harry?" demanded Shauna, with a surge of confusion.

Harry was shaking his head in the strangest fashion, ignoring Shauna's question. "Ginny would have understood me… I'm sorry…" With a momentary pause, he slowly voiced… making sure that she comprehended his each and every word. "So that's the reason why I can never forget her… Please, try to understand that I can NEVER forget you... Ginny."

She looked up at her husband and immediately frowned. "What did you say...?"

"You can't fool me twice, Ginny Weasley. I have always known... And I'm surprised at you that you haven't figured it out. You should've understood me… that I would never love anyone else. But… none of it matters now." Flashing away an unexpected sly smile, he candidly winked at her. "And don't worry about it... you're secret is safe with me."

"But… I'm not… not…" Her trailing words were instantly cut off by Harry's delirious laugh.

"Drop it, Ginny… I know…" He declared with an unwavering expression on his face, then hastily kissed her lips and with that, Harry Potter left through the door to get their dinner.

She just stood there, completely stunned... watching him disappear silently into the night. "How the hell did he find out...?" she found herself demanding in absolute astonishment. She had never told anyone about this, not even to her husband... or had given him the slightest hint or indication of her true identity… just as she loyally promised to the Ellemists seven years ago. Then how could Harry have possibly...?

But then she realised that it really wasn't of importance, anymore. He knew that Shauna wasn't the one who returned... he knew that it had been me all along...

Ginny smiled, as feelings of unimaginable joy and triumphant erupted inside her. Harry knew...

Some countless miles away, in the suburbs of a small urban town in England stood a house, quite different from the other ones stacked neatly on Magnox Street. A muggle perhaps, wouldn't notice these subtle differences, but a passer-by witch or a wizard would easily be able to tell that the house belonged to a warm-hearted family of their kind. On its porch, lay a collection of strange toys including a fully functional broomstick for children, a messy pile of exploding Snap cards and two sets of Gobstones. Obviously, a child had been playing with these and had not bothered to clean up after himself.

Normally, his mother would have gotten angry with him and would have shouted at him for being a lazy bum, but today she was picking up after him… without the slightest hint of anger. In fact, she was feeling extremely wistful and preoccupied and on the contrary, her face was lit with a profound smile.

"Mum… why are you grinning that goofy grin?" Her six year-old son, Will asked just as she entered the house with all the toys in her hands and then placed them in the toy box. The woman looked lovingly at her son; she picked him up and placed him on her lap. "I'm just happy…"

"Why are you happy?" Will wanted to know.

A sensation of love fluttered inside her body… an emotion so powerful that she felt like crying, having tasted its beauty time and time again. Choking back a suppressed tear, she managed to find her voice. "I'm happy because I just saw someone whom I was very close to once."

Will's face curled with innocent confusion. "But… but you were watching TV some time ago…" Next, he was bursting out with happiness. "Wow, mum! Do you know anyone famous? Who is it?"

Speaking seemed to harder than usual, and she was very well aware of the reason. "Her name… is Shauna Swirl…" she answered. "She was… she was a very… dear friend." The woman was partially lying to Will because Shauna Swirl had been more than a just a 'dear' friend.

"Do you have a picture of her?" Her son was curious. "I want to see what she looks like…"

The woman had to think for a moment. "I think I have it somewhere… Oh yes, I remember now…" She picked up her wand which was lying on the centre table and then simply uttered. "Accio Album."

Within seconds, a photo album came whizzing from upstairs and she caught it with one swift movement of her hand. She began to flip through the pages till she found the picture she was looking for. It was a muggle photo of a young girl with long black hair, soft emerald eyes, a beautiful face and the most breathtaking smile. "That's her… I reckon she must have been fifteen or so when this was taken."

Will seemed to instantly like her. "What's she doing now?"

"Shauna's a famous scientist." The woman explained. "And she's married to Harry Potter!"

"Harry Potter?" He didn't seem to believe it. "HARRY POTTER… CAPTAIN OF THE WINSFIELD WHISPERERS? NO WAY… MUM! You're pulling my leg, aren't you mum?"

She had to laugh out loud. "No, I'm not. It's completely true…"

"WHOA! THAT IS SO COOL!" He appeared incredibly amazed and jumping with joy. "I've got to tell Jerry about this…" With that, Will sprung to his feet and was out of the door in a flash to meet his good friend and tell him of his good fortune of being miraculously related with the legendary Harry Potter.

It was after her son had disappeared from her sight, that she was lost once again in the flooding memories of another world… and a completely separate lifetime. Just thinking of it caused tears of overwhelming grief to form in her eyes. Everything had been so different back then… so much simpler.

And she missed it terribly…

But that didn't mean that she wasn't now happy now, because she was. She loved her life and wouldn't trade it for all the jewels and riches in the universe. She was married to a man who was her first and only love, and she adored her son to death.

And she had kept her secret; her word to the Ellemists was true and binding. It was absolutely necessary that the truth be buried for all times in order to maintain the ultimate Equilibrium. Now, what exactly this Equilibrium was; she didn't have a clue… but it was apparent that the knowledge of it was not even in the faintest grasp of mortals. And she had been forewarned by the Proclaimers of Prophecies - never to tell anyone the secret of her true identity… of who she really was in mind and soul… however, it seemed that only one other person in this world knew about it. Ginny Weasley…

Only Ginny knew that Nova Bennett was in fact, the real Shauna Swirl. No one else did… not even her muggle husband Jack Bennett.

And perhaps Professor Dumbledore, the gifted Headmaster of Hogwarts knew that as well at some instinctive level. He was blessed with the sort of powers that no other wizard or witch can only dream of having and she was sure that he somehow was very well aware of the concealed truth regarding her and Ginny.

"Nova…what are you still doing down there?" Her husband was calling her from the upstairs bedroom. "Hurry up… we're going to be late for the Richardson's party."

She wiped away the tears with her hands; then forced herself to smile. And yet, that smile came naturally upon her face… for she had realised the myriad blessings that God had showered upon her and everyone she loved. "I'm coming, Jack…"

All was well now… the perfect balance of bodies and souls.

(A/N updated on the 1st August 2007):

Can anyone draw parallels between this story and 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows' ?

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