A young man of seventeen looked over the heaps of bodies that lay on the floor of the great hall. That's where the last battle had been fought, where the last of his friends had died, where he had finally killed the snake face and revenged his parents, Cedric, Sirius, Remus, Ron, Hermione, Neville, Susan, Hannah, Collin, Dennis, Fred, George... everyone. Only he was alive... He felt fear clench his heart. What would happen now? Would he rebuild the wizarding world? Or would he just curl up and die? Or would fate have something else stored for him?
Somewhere there was Faweks, the phoenix, singing in the honor of the fallen. The young man looked up and saw the golden bird sitting on the back of the stool of headmaster. "What should I do Faweks?"
The bird thrilled something that the man didn't understand but it sounded encouraging and he gave a slight smile. "I just wish I could be somewhere I could do something to help. I'm no good for this world anymore; I defeated Voldemort as I was supposed to now I have no reason to stay..."
'Hatchling, I could send you to another world, totally different to this one if you want. It is on the brick of war and it needs more heroes. Of course you could choose to stay out of it if you want to,' Faweks thrilled.
The young man looked thoughtful. Could he really leave the world he had risked his life for?
Yes, yes he could. "Please, Faweks, I'd like that," he said in a quiet voice. Before Faweks could do anything, the young man heard someone garn. He rushed to the side of the fallen body. It was Dennis Creevey, the scholar of the two brothers. "Dennis, can you hear me?"
The boy of fourteen looked up and nodded weakly.
"Dennis, I'm going to leave, and I, as the last heir of the Hogwarts founders, ask you, if you'd want to restart Hogwarts when you've got your own education complete."
"Y-yes," the boy whispered with a raspy voice.
The young man smiled. "I'll leave the whole fortune of Potters to you as well as the library of Hogwarts. Please, bring Hogwarts back to its former glory someday, and one last request... please, don't forget the heroes of this war or me..."
Dennis nodded weakly and fell back to unconsciousness.
The man stood up after laying Dennis back down. "Please, Faweks, take me away..."
There was a brilliant flash f light and Harry Potter was no longer found on Earth...
A few days later Dennis Creevey woke up completely healed. He started to read every book in the Hogwarts library before moving to the headmaster's private library. But before he read any books, he wrote down everything he knew about the war and listed the casualties before burying them. In the years to come, Dennis became a very respected and powerful wizard who at the age of twenty five, only eleven years after the 'Great War', re-founded Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry. He taught the new generation of British witches and wizards (all muggleborn) about heroism by the tales of Harry Potter, Ronald Weasley, Hermione Granger and Neville Longbottom, the greatest heroes of the wizarding world. So the tale of the boy-who-lived lived on and the hope of him someday returning. That hope still burns in the hearts of witches and wizards everywhere. And sometimes in the middle of a war, people swear they saw one man with a lightning bolt scar and messy black hair helps them. The name Harry Potter was lost a few centuries later but his other names lived on: he became the Traveler, the Young One, the Immortal and his most common name, Istari, stroke fear to the hearts of every Dark Lord after Voldemort who was never forgotten...