Sulliven had not really been through. On the day of Blair's funeral she had cried for the first time in nearly 20 years, the first time since Severus' death. Then she met with Harry and they made a truce.

Her world was not entirely favourable to believing the last testament of a liberal dead man and her dignity power and influence remained pretty much intact but she did withdraw from fighting wars, there was implicit pressure enough after revealing fact that she was a witch to cause her to tactfully withdraw into her company and making the weapons rather than controlling them- not that she couldn't but she didn't have the same love, the same adoration and hero worship as before, she thought it safer to back off for a while.

Harry's injury and inability to save the wizarding world from muggles did similar damage to his reputation and now with one fake leg he had to leave most of the practical work to fitter men. But like Sullivan he still had ability to control things from the sidelines, to strategise and wage wars should he choose to.

Neither of them were ruined but neither of them were looked upon the same again either.

The truce they made was simple, muggles had attacked wizards once and had caused far fewer deaths than any of the incidents when wizards had chosen to attack muggles, therefore, she reasoned, Ashleigh was not going to allow her world to be held accountable. So she swore to keep the muggles out of magic and Harry promised to keep witches and wizards out of the muggle world's dealings, but, if per chance, another like Grindelwald or Voldemort, or even Sulliven should arise and one world attack the other, they, each of them, had full rights to instruct their worlds to fight back.

They didn't shake on it, neither of them particularly wanted to touch the other, no matter how childish it might seem, so they signed an agreement, once with pens, once with magic, so the contract would fit both worlds.

Ashleigh adopted her nephew and changed his last name to Sulliven. At her brother's funeral she took Simon with and showed him two graves, his father's, the headstone of which read ' "I will not comply to society's norms and conditions" He lived by this and so it killed him.' along with his name and dates, and then she showed him his grandfather's. Severus Snape had been buried in the very same graveyard though some way away from the younger Snape.

His grave simply said 'I was somebody. Who, is no business of yours'.

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Harry was applying for a job, he was bored of paperwork of strategies without action of carefully laid plans that he couldn't be there to see through. It was six months after he'd met Ashleigh Sulliven now and he was going up the spiral staircase to headmistress McGonagall's office. He had been told just to wait in their for her, that she'd be up momentarily, so that's what he was doing.

For the first time in nearly 20 years he stepped into Dumbledore's old office and looked around. "My, my what have we here, surely we are too old for trips to the headmistresses office Potter." Harry looked up into the cold, familiar eyes of Severus Snape and for the first time in 6 months he smiled.

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The End! Thank you all for coming along for the ride, I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.

For anyone who liked the characters of Ashleigh and Nathan and would like to see them when they were younger they were first dreamt up for the story Summer with Snape which is set in a slightly different world to this as this is DH compatible where as they other doesn't even fit with HBP.

But it's the same family that I use here that I use in that one as well so go and check it out if you will! I'm looking for 50 reviews before I put up chapter 4 and I'm so nearly there I can taste it.

Oh! And just a tidbit that I didn't manage to get into this, Blair's middle name is Severus, Blair Severus Sulliven, and she's called Blair because Ashleigh wanted her to be a witch and has a sense of humour.