Epilogue

Monday June 21st, 2027
Orlando, Florida
Walt Disney Resort and Complex
Animal Kingdom – 'Beastly Kingdom'
3:27 p.m.

"Don't bother then winged horses!" Kat yelled before shaking her head as she looked at her two companions who were laughing at her, "Those are your grandchildren too you know."

"We know," Hermione chuckled; her arm was linked through Ginny's left as Ginny's right was linked with Kat's.

"I still say we're too young to be grandparents," Draco grumbled behind them, "Save of course for Father, Tom, and Ginny solely because our children are her grandchildren."

"Blaise…" the three women chorused before they heard the sound of a hand hitting a skull.

"You'd think he would get less annoying with time," Ginny sighed before giggling like the sixteen-year-old she had been nearly thirty years earlier when they had turned their husband's hair blue and green.

So much had changed since that day when Harry, Hermione, Draco, and Blaise had returned to Hogwarts for the rest of their seventh year. The next day the Daily Prophet had run an article on Ginny laying claim to the Weasley family fortune, which resulted in howlers from Molly and Arthur and letters wondering if what the article said was true or not, and what the heck it even meant from Bill, Charlie, and Percy. She had written the three and explained about the family history, telling them to ask around if they wanted proof, and actually thrown Ron's Howler in the fire when it came a day after the other ones, somehow it had been quite satisfying to listen to the Howler scream…

Lucius managed to surprise Ginny a few weeks later with quite possibly the most romantic proposal possible, and they were married the end of May in a quiet ceremony there at the Manor, thanks to it being a Hogsmeade weekend, and the use of a time-turner, Harry and Hermione were able to be there without anyone being the wiser. June and July passed with the school year ending and Draco and Blaise returned to the Manor, while Harry and Hermione had gone to Grimmauld Place and continued to communicate with the others through the special journals they had created, or through Fred and George since it would be quite odd if they suddenly started talking to Severus. With August came Ginny's seventeenth birthday, and two days before that, the birth of Lucas and Cassandra. Lucas had the same blonde hair and blue eyes as his father and older brother and sister, while Cassandra had her mother's hair and eyes.

Once the twins had been born, they put their plans into motion, and only a few days later they led a simultaneous 'attack' on the Ministry and on Order Headquarters, after Albus Dumbledore had called every member of the Order there for an important meeting on information Severus had managed to get in regards to Voldemort being married and his wife expecting a child. Tom and Lucius had led those that went to the Ministry, capturing the Minister and every other Department Head; it was surprisingly easy to take down the Ministry in broad daylight as it were. Draco and Blaise had been the unofficial ones in charge of the attack on the Order, Kat and Ginny attending without their husbands' knowledge. With Severus, Fred, George, Harry, and Hermione on the inside, it had been quite simple really to stun every one present.

Not two days later, they had brought the entire Wizengamot together, with the Minister there, reporters from every major Wizarding newspaper throughout the world, and every member of the Order present. There they had administered veritaserum to Dumbledore, and the man had proceeded to confess to everything he had done, torturing Regulus Black, making sure Peter Pettigrew overheard the Prophecy and that he thought it was Harry, having decided Harry would be a much better figurehead for people to flock behind in the war than Neville Longbottom would ever be. Actually being the one to mention to Sirius that he would be the most logical choice for a Secret-Keeper, and having Remus out of the country on a mission at the time so Sirius couldn't have had Remus be the Secret-Keeper, leaving it only to Peter. There were many other things revealed that day, more about Harry even, but it was those that caused the most outrage amongst the Order members, most memorable perhaps was Andromeda Tonks attempting to curse Dumbledore when she found out he had been the one who killed her cousin, and Remus actually jumping at the older man when he realized the loss of all of his friends went back to Dumbledore, the man even admitting to having recruited Peter Pettigrew to be a spy without anyone knowing, convincing him to tell Voldemort he would be a spy on the Order and leaving him basically waiting to be killed by one side or the other after Peter had delivered Regulus to him.

The Wizengamot had unanimously decided to send the man to Azkaban, though that sentence had never been actually given since Bellatrix had managed to finally get her revenge for Regulus' death so long before. The revelations hadn't ended there that day, Tom willingly taking the truth potion as well so everyone gathered could see what his true goals were, while Kat had sat off to the side with Ginny and Lucius. Everything had changed that day, many of the Order had not exactly forgiven Tom for everything that happened, but they accepted perhaps was the word. Andromeda was welcomed back to the family as was her daughter, Tonks, and even her husband. Remus had told Harry he understood what had been at first perceived as a betrayal, then quietly approached Tom, Lucius, and Severus to ask what was to become of Peter. They had explained he had already been sent to Azkaban without the Wizengamot's knowledge, and Remus had merely nodded before walking away. He had stayed out of the war from then on, but was a surrogate Grandfather to the children Harry and Hermione later had.

Everything had changed after that, Molly, Arthur, and Ron had never accepted the changes, while Bill, Charlie, and Percy had approached Ginny and asked if they could still be a part of her life, and pointed out none of them wanted a part of the family fortune, it wasn't for that, they just wanted their sister. She'd surprised them all instead, setting up means of dividing the family fortune between her siblings, to be further divided amongst their children and her own; she herself didn't technically need the money being a Malfoy. It was set up in a trust of sorts though, so they couldn't pull out extravagant amounts and such, but they were recognized and the Weasley family truly was returned to its rightful place… Only Arthur, Molly and Ron stayed away and disowned, though Ron's children would be recognized if they accepted the truth of their family.

In the months that followed, Fudge was replaced by Lucius as Minister, and they began to make changes to the way things were, in England and as time passed, throughout the world. In their personal lives, as life continued as it always does, Kat and Tom's first child, a boy named after his father was born on Halloween night, while December saw Harry and Hermione married. The year that followed saw Harry and Hermione's first child born, a boy named James, as well as Kat and Tom's second, a boy named Regulus after her favourite 'uncle'. By year's end, all of the Wizarding worlds had united, Tom as their 'face' to the rest of the Muggle world, and New Years Day of 2000, after the Muggles had their panic attack over what they called 'Y2K', they went to every major Muggle government. Explanations were made, of the Wizarding World, of what they wanted, and just as evenly they had explained they would have no problem killing if need be, but that Wizarding kind didn't want that, they simply wanted to be able to live amongst the others. It hadn't been easy, nor had it been something that happened overnight, but by the time their children had grown, their worlds were blended together. Wizarding kind answered to Wizarding Courts, while Muggles answered to Muggle courts, though both had the same laws in regards to treatment of Muggles and Wizards, punished equally, though as the Muggles were quick to point out as time passed, Wizarding World punishments were harsher, they had their prisons with Dementors.

The others once called 'Magical Creatures' rather than Beings were also given their freedom. And nearly thirty years later there was a colony of Giants living quite happily in northern Europe, as well as one living on Easter Island where they had once resided centuries ago. The Centaurs were allowed their lands to roam, were respected for their knowledge. Goblins were given their right to govern themselves, and were asked to continue to run Gringotts and the other Wizarding Banks, as well as paid for their service; many Goblins became famous for their metalwork and jewels, a Goblin made Tiara being given to the Queen of England even. The Coronation Gift given to the new King when the time came made by Goblins even. Werewolves were allowed their freedoms, to work among others, with the only stipulation being they had to take the Wolfsbane potion. The Packs that had existed continued as they always had, but those who had wanted to live among others were able to, they were able to marry and have children. The only werewolves bothered were those found roaming under the full moons that didn't have the Potion in their system, and those that went around purposely biting, like the Wolf Greyback, who had attacked Remus so many years before, were sentenced to Azkaban and the Dementor's Kiss for in essence being murderers. Even House Elves were given rights, though the majority had said they wanted to continue as they always had, serving their families, many just did it as free elves rather than 'bound servants'. Even vampires were allowed their freedoms to an extent, obviously kept from going and feeding on humans, or turning humans... but it worked somehow. After all vampires still had their own natural predators, Wizarding and Muggle kind stayed out of the hunt.

As the world around them changed for the better, their own lives progressed happily. Friends married, Draco and Blaise had their bonding ceremony on Valentine's Day of 2001, Draco's idea to irk his big sister by sharing her anniversary as Harry, Hermione, and Ginny learned. Not the smartest idea he'd had considering she was pregnant with her third and last child at the time, a girl named Bellatrix who would later be the first to make Kat and Tom grandparents. That same year, Draco and Blaise's first child was born, a boy named Andrew, they had chosen to have a surrogate mother and Andrew was every bit Draco's son. Their daughter, Selene, was born two years later, identical to Blaise in every way. Harry and Hermione had two more children besides James, Sirius was born two years after his brother, little Lily born two years after him, named for the Grandmother she would never know and who she looked so alike, much to Remus' amazement. Lucius and Ginny as well had two more children, Serephina had been born two years after Lucas and Cassandra, and their last, a boy named Markus was born two years after her.

And the world continued to change around them, Kat, Ginny, and Hermione became inseparable as the years passed, and they watched their children grow. While Ginny had been the first to become a grandmother when you considered Kat and Draco's children her grandchildren, it was Kat who was the first to become a grandmother when one of their own children had a child. Elizabeth was born when her mother, Bellatrix was only eighteen, and was the oldest at the age of eight. After her were Lucas' twins, Christianna and William; Cassandra's twins, Virginia and Thomas; both sets surprisingly born the same day making Ginny a grandmother four times over while Lucas' wife and Cassandra exchanged looks over the oddity that happened that day. Three months later Kat's son Tom had become a father to little Rebecca, all five children having just seen their fifth birthday. Kat's third and currently last grandchild had been born the year after, Regulus' son he named Sirius for one of his best friends and the popularity of the name in the Black family. The following year Serephina had her first child, Ginny and Lucius' third granddaughter named Georgia. Two years later Hermione and Harry had finally become grandparents when James' daughter Ellen was born, followed the following year by Serephina's son Christopher, Andrew's daughter Aimee who finally made Draco and Blaise grandfathers, and last but not least, little Jasmine, Lily Potter's daughter.

It was Jasmine that led to the 'Family' summer vacation to be at the famed Walt Disney World Resort this year, Lily hadn't been able to help but decorate the little girl's room entirely in anything relating to the Disney Princess who shared her name. Perhaps, if nowhere else in the world, it was here, at this place that had once solely been Muggle, which showed best the changes in the world from thirty years prior. Here in this 'kingdom' dedicated to what were once considered just mythological creatures, while there were some that were machines called 'animatronics', the dragons mostly since it was so very difficult to control a dragon that well, there were living creatures too. Unicorns that were treated with care and respect, roamed the maze on one side, Winged Horses that Muggles still liked to call Pegasus, lived in the 'gardens' dedicated to the movie Fantasia… There was even a Kelpie living in a lagoon named after the famous Loch Ness in Scotland where the most famous of Kelpies lived, this one enjoying the shape of a sea serpent like it's relative though occasionally it would change shapes just to surprise people, popping up to see those who would be eating on the balcony of a restaurant on the shore, eagerly catching anything that would be thrown it's way even though there were signs asking that you not feed the Kelpie….

They had even had to chastise the Malfoy, Riddle, and Potter grandchildren when they wanted to feed the Kelpie, before the three women had turned their attention to yelling at Draco when he tossed it a few French fries as American's called them. Eventually they had left the restaurant and headed towards the Fantasia Gardens to walk off their late lunch and let the children roam, the 'Grandparents' content to watch their children chase after the kids, even if Kat felt the need to still yell at them.

"I like it here, we should visit more often," Hermione mused as they leisurely moved along, others moving around the group.

"It's nice," Tom agreed as he moved up to catch his wife's hand as the three women split apart to move next to their husbands, but remaining close to each other.

"You're liking the fact no one recognizes you anymore," Kat teased as she reached up to brush a lock of silver hair back from where it had fallen into his eyes.

"I think we all are," he countered with a smile as he looked over at Lucius who's hair had long since turned a silvery shade of white, while their wives retained their natural hair colour, a trait shared by Harry, Hermione, Draco and Blaise; though Kat and Ginny both secretly agreed they liked the silver hair on their husbands.

"You ever wonder if it won't be like this forever?" Blaise asked curious. "If in another hundred years it won't start back down the path to the way things were?"

"If it does, I suppose we could always put a stop to it," Tom mused.

"You'll be two hundred years old in another hundred years, let someone else deal with it," Kat rolled her eyes, "And you," she looked back at Blaise, "Stop worrying."

"No one knows what the future holds," Hermione began softly as she watched her grandchildren and theirs up ahead, "But I think that things will never be like they were. And even if it comes to pass, we won't be around to see it."

"All we can do is enjoy the world we have now, and our family, and each other," Ginny agreed with a smile as she leaned her head on Lucius, while he wrapped an arm around her waist.

"I rather like that plan," Lucius smiled.

"So we relax, live, love, and try not to kill Dra when he does something stupid," Kat smiled.

"Hey!"

"Hey is for horses," Kat, Ginny and Hermione chorused before seeing the look Draco was giving them and slipping out of their husband's arms in time to start running as Draco started after them, their laughter echoing through the gardens while their husbands, children, and grandchildren watched on shaking their heads. Some thing's never changed, and never would. And that's just how it was meant to be.