Epilogue

Dear Reader

For everyone during the Second Great Wizarding War, times brought hardship. For my grandparents, it would seem that they were given the worse of the lot. I apologize to you, dear Reader, if the struggles of my family were too much to handle. But as with every story, good always wins and a time comes when the sun shines again. I chose to end the story here because the rest, as they say, is history.

Astoria Greengrass found her way into the world and into her family after the trial. She would say that she and her family never saw eye to eye and thus did not see much of each other in the many years following. As for the parents who raised her, she reconnected the family that was estranged and rebuilt her relationship with them, as their niece. She forced the Greengrass pride aside and stitched the family together again.

Grandpapa went back to St. Mungo's and developed his skill for potions in aiding the ailing at the hospital. Grandmama went to work for the Ministry as the Runic Expert for the Aurors, dealing specifically in ancient protective spells.

A year after my grandfather's trial, the two of them were married on the South lawn, surrounded by friends, family, and Ministry officials, bringing the darkness of the Malfoy name to an end. She was known to her family as Astoria. She was Aerie to those who knew her. Their life from then on was bliss.

My father, Scorpius "Corus" Hyperion Malfoy, was born in 2006.

You may ask, what happened to Dah'lia? Well, I will tell that she was surprisingly involved in our lives. But that is a story for another time.

I beg of you now, Readers, to leave with this. My family's redemption was not an easy task, nor was it the sole aim. My grandmother saved the soul of a young lost man at a pivotal moment and forever changed the fate of history. They didn't want this story told, but their legacy lives on. I thank you for being a part. For finding the love, the anger, the horror, and the joy in the lives of those just like you thrown into extraordinary circumstances.

Vela Aeridia Venatici (nee Malfoy)

2 May 2198

In honor of the two hundredth anniversary of the Second Great Wizarding War