Wizard Hunter

Chapter 21: Epilogue

Ken had heard that Harriet had agreed with the Wizards, and there would be no war. The Wizards were to remain hidden but known. Ken felt really miserable and sorry that he was to remain alone for a whole year before he could see his boy again. He sat, reading the morning newspaper when a knock on the door sounded once again. Ken got up, and walked over. What were the odds that it was Hagrid to give Jimmy back?

"Ernie?"

Ernie nodded curtly, and came in, patting Ken on the back. Why the sudden friendship. Ernie looked at Ken solemnly. "I… I found something out. I thought we- I thought you ought to know."

Ken kept his eyes on Ken, a bunch of possibilities racing through his mind. Jimmy had died. The black hooded people had kidnapped him. The Ministry was after him. A horde of them raced through with no end until Ernie gave him a paper.

"Pedigree," Ken muttered. "What the"-

The family tree was not very large. It looked as if it was cut out from a larger piece. At the top were two names: Herbert McMillan and Beth Holloway. A line was connecting them, and from the middle of the line, another went down and split into two. They reached over to different names: Ernie and Ken. Ken's mouth dropped open.

"I'm your brother," Ken whispered.

"I told you a long time ago that my parents split, and when they got back together, they decided to only care for one of us," Ernie said, staring at his shoes. "The other one, I guess, was you, the younger."

"So I'd never remember it," Ken muttered. "How're they? Mum and dad?"

"I never told you? They died in the Battle of Hogwarts."

Ken nodded, "Sorry. Really. I am. For everything."

"You never did care to investigate more thoroughly after arriving at your desired answer," Ernie smirked. "Just do us all a favor, and never enter detective work."

"Deal. Can I really never see Jimmy till next summer?"

"Even without the punishment, you have no choice," Ernie said sadly. "It is a boarding school."

Before both knew it, Ernie was pulled into a big hug. Both were tearful. When they broke apart, Ernie looked around, "Well, let's go. You wanna be the first Muggle to see Hogwarts?"

"Seriously?"

"Get an idea of what we're like," Ernie smirked. "Under my invitation."

"Wait a sec, if you're a Wizard, and I'm your brother, then"-

"A Muggle with Magical parents is a squib," Ernie said sadly. "But, you can still see Hogwarts." Before Ken left, he received a post by a knock on the door. The postman delivered to him personally, and Ken ripped open the letter and read, with Ernie looking over his shoulder:

Kenneth McCallister,

It is Harriet Edgecombe, the Prime Minister. I am asking you to secretly, by yourself, read this letter away from prying eyes. I wish for you to keep a close eye on the magical world, using your son to get answers. I am restrained from divulging their location, so you are our last hope for independence. Please follow this request to the letter, and I will see to it you are rewarded most handsomely.

Harriet Edgecombe,

Prime Minister of England

Ken felt really bad with Ernie looking over his shoulder, and he could feel Ernie's nervousness. He knew now that if he answered positively, Ernie might modify his memory and take Jimmy away for good. Plus, even if he could, he'd never. Ernie was his brother now. He couldn't bring himself to it. So, he wrote on the back, kind of hard:

Forget about it. My son is a Wizard. What I find out is our business.

Yes, Ken did go to Hogwarts with his lost brother. The two remained closer than they ever were. When the two were kids, they felt fine hanging with each other, or other kids, especially Ernie. Now, they were seen with each other wherever they went. They really were brothers.

When Ken saw Hogwarts he envied Jimmy for being able to go and live in this castle. He only regretted that he never went. Why was it that Ernie was a Wizard, but not him?

Ernie answered his question. Both their parents were magical, but Ken was someone Wizards called a squib. He was a Muggle with magic parents. He regretted even further that he was not a Wizard, but one thing for sure, being a squib allowed him at Hogwarts and the Ministry agreed to let him live there as an assistant caretaker.

Ken was allowed to be closer to Jimmy, and watch as he grew up. Jimmy went to Hogwarts, and knew Scorpius and, to his surprise, Philip McMillan was there too. Philip, like his dad, was sorted into Hufflepuff. Jimmy was sorted into a surprising house.

While he was sorted into Slytherin with Scorpius and Harry's son Albus, he was still a good friend, and stood out largely from the crowd. Scorpius, Jimmy, and Albus shared a dormitory with one other boy Dennis Greenway. There, the three grew up together and trained themselves up nicely to be full grown Wizards under the good Headmaster Helbert Jumber.