Jacen
Skip forward. It was May 2, the anniversary of the victory in the Battle of Hogwarts that officially brought the war to an end. Classes had been canceled in order to have a remembrance ceremony that was mandatory.
We were all in lines in the Great Hall, by house, year, and alphabetic order. I stood next to Ella, as always, and then there was about a foot between me and one of the Hufflepuffs in my year.
Mum, Daddy, Aunt Rhys, Aunt Korr, Uncle Lux, Aunt Hayden, Aunt Teddy, Uncle Alex, Hermione Granger-Weasley, Ron Weasley, Draco, and Uncle Harry were standing at the front, on the tier of the Great Hall where most students were Sorted. Aunt Teddy had one of her records with her.
"Welcome, students, to the eighteenth anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts," Headmistress McGonagall declared. "Today, eighteen years ago, we won a war. It was one'o clock in the morning, but we had won a war. A war against racism and prejudice. Our guest speakers were key players in Riddle War II, many of which should have recognizable names. First, we have Harry Potter, Hermione Granger-Weasley, Ronald Weasley, Draco Malfoy, and Ky Emrys discussing the circumstances that led to the battle."
The group stepped forwards.
"The morning of May 1," Harry Potter began. "We needed to break into Gringotts to retrieve an important artifact that helped defeat Tom Riddle. It was part of a plan Hermione and Ron had helped me develop over the course of the year."
"We were captured at Malfoy Manor," Ron Weasley jumped in. "We'd gotten caught because we'd said You-Know-Who's name, which was Taboo. Harry was almost killed, which would've ended our chances in the war right then and there." Mum gave him a hard look.
"I helped them escape," Draco interjected. "I'd seen and done enough to realize that what I'd been doing was wrong. It was my chance for redemption."
"I was Alice Potter's personal spy among Death Eater ranks," Daddy began. "We were in communication throughout the past year, and under her orders, I was not to break cover. Until that day, at least. I got direct orders to save her brother. I had him pretend to Imperius me, and we got out of there pretty easily, at the price of Dobby, who died a Free Elf."
"We then robbed Gringotts for the powerful artifact, and went to Hogwarts to find the next in the series," Hermione Granger-Weasley finished.
The lectures continued all day. We only took a lunch break, and when dinner came around, the lectures were finally finished. Some of them were pretty fascinating, like the creation of the Spark. I had no idea that Mum, Aunt Hayden, Aunt Teddy, and Uncle Alex were the only original leaders left.
I lay in my bed that night, thinking it over. We couldn't let the Knights of Walpurgis win. We couldn't let it happen again, all of the racism, the evil, it just couldn't happen again. I wondered if maybe I should've been taking a more active role in trying to find the Hallows.
Then I remembered that there were Aurors who were assigned to the job. It's not my job, I reminded myself as I fell asleep in the darkness.
