Dear Reader

Not a lot of people know the truth about the battle of Hogwarts. If you ask your history teacher about it they will answer that it was the day Harry Potter defeated Voldemort.

What they won't tell you is that in the end the body count on the side of Harry Potter was 83. They won't tell you about the countless people who lost someone or themselves to that battle. They won't talk about the years of therapy. They won't explain how some seventh years came back to repeat their last year, and how every student who was a second year and up the next year had to double load on their studies. How many students didn't return to Hogwarts, and ended up somewhere else. They won't tell you about the four first years that died. Or the sacrifices that were made.

Many times I've been requested to tell of those 83 that fell in the night during the final battle. Twenty years have passed, and yet I still remember it. But I am getting old, and soon no one will be around to tell you of them. So I have written out this book for you, a page each for one of the 83.

Yours Truly,

Professor Egmont Hobday

Disclaimer: I own nothing except the hat that I'm wearing, and several books, that's questionable, though. The book part I ment.