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AN: This story was written for the 2012 SS/HG_exchange at livejournal. Endless thanks go to my alpha-reader morethansirius, and my beta reader/brit-picker talesofsnape who both contributed so much and were invaluable in the writing this story.

Epilogue:

Severus and Hermione married in a small intimate ceremony with their close friends present. They honeymooned in Italy and shortly thereafter they moved to Glenridding to discover the small country cottage that Minerva had given them was in actuality a full country house. While it was no Malfoy Manor, or Toadstool Keep, but with three stories, six bedrooms, lots living area, a huge library, and the perfect spot in the basement for a potions lab, for them it was perfection. Although in theory Hermione still objected to house-elf servitude, she better understood their mind set, and asked Pippi come work for them for a galleon a month and all the ice cream she could eat. They had plenty of room for themselves and for visitors, of whom they had plenty. Some stay longer than others.

Severus continued to work part-time with Neville at Seville Imports. He guest lectured occasionally at Hogwarts for upper level potions classes, but he refused to take on a regular class load in spite of Minerva's badgering. He puttered around in his potions lab, and had patents on several successful potions, it seemed the public no longer cared if their potions were brewed by a Snape as long as they worked. He was content to spend most of his time at home with his wife in the library, where among other things, they were working their way through Albus' rare book collection. One of their favorites being an extremely rare first edition of the Wizards Kama Sutra.

Hermione continued to work part-time for a while running Things, but eventually became more of a figurehead for the agency. Arabella continued to run the office with an iron fist and Argus retired again and to take care of their home and their cats. Those two never married, she said she was too old for such nonsense, and Argus just grinned and said he enjoyed living in sin. Dennis Creevey and his wife became the chief field investigators, eventually hiring a whole crew of Squibs. Later they became quite well know in the Muggle world when ghost hunting became quite the rage. Hermione enjoyed spending time with her husband both traveling and at home entertaining guests. Some stay longer than others.

Seville Imports flourished with the help of a lot of ingenuity and a little bit of magic. Within a couple years Neville was well on his way to restoring Toadstool Keep to it's former glory. He still taught part-time at Hogwarts but only the advanced Herbology classes. No dunderheads allowed, only those students who had a true interest or love for the subject. Neville had convinced Luna Lovegood to join him in his endeavors at Seville Imports by becoming head of the creature division. Among other things, she perfected a method to harvest Beluga caviar with no harm to the sturgeon whatsoever. A sort of catch and release system, leaving the fish to return to the sea again and again. She and Neville became quite the item and wedding plans were in their future.

With Augusta's murder solved and her murderer brought to justice she was free to move beyond the veil if she chose. But now that Neville was spending more time at the keep and had Luna in the picture... Well, with the prospect of possible grand-babies to come, she decided she might hang around for a bit longer. Neville was more than happy to have his gran stay as long as she was happy. And Luna... well everyone had always thought her a bit odd, but Luna saw nothing at all strange about having the ghost of her future husband's grandmother living in the same house. In fact she and Augusta got to be quite good friends.

Harry and Draco stayed together. While Draco had no interest in becoming the spokesperson for the Malfoy family businesses, it turned out that Harry had quite a knack for it. It really set the wizarding world on it's ear when Harry became a top executive at Malfoy, Inc. He spent a lot of time involved in their philanthropic endeavors and also kept an active hand in the three Quiditch franchises they owned.

Lucius became semi-retired, he still dabbled in the family business, but for the most part he was content to let Harry take care of the big decisions. He still spent a lot time serving on the Hogwarts Board of Governors, and St. Mungo's board among others. The rest of his time was spent visiting friends or having friends visit him. It seemed he spent rather a lot of time in the Lake District these days.

Draco eventually took his cooking hobby to the next level and opened a wizarding restaurant in Diagon Alley called Calderone Della Strega, The Witch's Cauldron. It was an overnight success. He loved experimenting with new recipes, especially using the exotic ingredients provided by Seville Imports. He had found his niche in running the restaurant; bossing people around just seemed to come naturally to him.

Severus' childhood friend Tony Larosa provided Draco with a good bit of advice and assistance with the start up planning for his restaurant. Tony, the perpetual bachelor, had been introduced by his best friend to Clarrisa of the haunted inn fame. It was love at first sight. Sophia called it, 'un colpo di fulmine', like a bolt of lightening. They were married in less than a year with Severus and Hermione as their witnesses. And who would have ever suspected? It turned out there were actually quite a few Italian stregas scattered throughout Zia Sophia's background. For although the two were Muggles, they had it on good authority that their daughter's name had appeared on the enrollment list at Hogwarts, Ermione Sophia Larosa. She was better known to all as Mya, and her Zia Ermione and Zio Severino couldn't have been prouder.

The end.

Here is the original prompt for this story:

Even after the war has been won by The Order's side, Severus is still reviled for his Death Eater association, and thus unable to find employment. He delves deep into his Muggle roots to earn his living, albeit in a magical fashion.
Prejudices from Voldemort's reign still have impact on Hermione's world. She never completed her NEWTs, therefore she doesn't have the credentials for employment in the Wizarding world. She finds a way to use her magical knowledge to provide a much needed service in the Muggle world… Ghost busting.

I had a blast writing this fic. Thanks MHS for the awesome prompt. :)