Chapter Seven
Coda
Ron's POV
"Well that was quick," Hermione said.
Blaise was still weak and leaning heavily against me. I'm not sure how much she was faking it. I really didn't care. She fit very nicely under my arm and against my chest. I liked it.
"Where do we go from here?" Ginny asked.
Overhead Voldemort's magics were failing, the borders falling down. It looked like fireworks. I looked around at all of us, wondering the same thing.
"Where ever we want," Harry said, joining us. He looked like hell. His hair, usually wayward as it was, was sticking up at odd angles and a patch of it by his left ear looked like it had been singed off.
Hermione pulled out her wand and flicked it at him with a muttered spell. His hair snipped off in chunks until it was all short, almost a crew cut.
"Thanks," he said with a grin.
"Why am I always looking after you two?" she asked, smiling fondly at the two of us.
"It won't be easy from here," Malfoy said, rather stating the obvious. "Not all of the Death Eaters were here."
"You know if there's a list somewhere?" Harry asked.
"Potter, you and Granger and the Ministry and Dumbledore are welcome to raid my father's study. I have no objections whatsoever. Between you guys, I bet you can find a good list of who to look for."
"This isn't the end," Harry said. "What about the dragons?"
We all looked at the dragons who were sleeping, looking so content I envied them.
"They'll stay as long as they're needed," Hermione said, slipping into textbook mode. I was familiar with that mode.
"So what do we want to do?" Blaise asked.
"End game?" Malfoy asked.
"I'm game," Harry said. "It ain't gonna be easy."
"Like this was?" Snape chimed in dryly.
"It's going to be long," Hermione said.
"Nothing worth the gain isn't worth the risk," Ginny said.
"I'm sure my parents would be fine with helping out," Blaise said. "I doubt they're happy about all this."
"Probably not," I said, kissing her forehead.
"Then we need to-" Harry began.
"Harry, just shut up for a bit," Hermione said not unkindly. "Let's just enjoy the victory of the moment, okay?"
He opened his mouth then smiled. "Okay."
And that's just what we did.
The end.
(A/N: Well, my dears, it's been a long road and took me a lot of work but here it is. Finally finished. Horay!
