This is the last chapter I'm afraid.

Chapter 48 – Room of Requirement
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry was starting to look like its old self again as hundreds of witches and wizards worked endlessly to rebuild the famous school. So many past and present students and their families had turned up to lend a helping hand.

The four common rooms and the dormitories were all complete by lunch time. All the pictures and their occupants that lined the corridors were all back in place and were talking loudly to each other.

Everyone had taken a well-deserved break, returning to the great hall for lunch which appeared instantly on the tables as everyone sat down.

"Oh how I have missed the food here." Ron Weasley stated sitting down between Harry and Hermione.

Hermione just rolled her eyes.

"You and me both, little brother." Fred Weasley commented sitting down on the other side of Hermione.

George had went to find his girlfriend Laura Jones who had been working away on the Hufflepuff common room and dormitories. Laura entered the great hall with a group of her friends, laughing and giggling. George approached cautiously.

"Hello my lady, fancy coming and sitting with us?" George asked holding out his hand in the hope Laura would accept.

"I'll see you girls later." Laura said to the other three girls, taking George's hand in her own and walking with him to the table which was full of Gryffindor's.

Laura felt a little out of place but to be honest no one was sitting at their houses tables.

"I'm surprised so many Slytherins showed their faces." Ron spoke, his mouth full of mash.

"Ronald please don't talk with your mouth full, its bad manners." Molly Weasley warned her youngest son.

Ron swallowed with one massive gulp.

"Sorry Mum." He apologised.

"Not all Slytherins are bad people you know Ronald. Do you not remember how many of them stayed behind to fight with us all during the battle?" Hermione stated in her usual snappy tone.

There were indeed a huge group of Slytherin students including Marcus Flint, Pansy Parkinson, Terrance Higgs and Blaise Zabini. Everyone had been given an hour and a half for lunch. George had just finished a hearty meal when he leaned over to his girlfriend.

"Do you fancy coming with me for the last half an hour?" he asked her quietly.

"Ok then." Laura answered taking a sip of her juice nervously.

The young couple stood up, linked hands and walked quietly from the great hall without anyone batting an eye lid.

"Where are we going?" Laura asked George as they walked up the stair cases to the seventh floor.

"I think you'll know this place quite well." George chirped walking past a brick wall three times with his eyes tightly shut, muttering something to himself.

To onlookers he would have looked quite mental but he was just trying to get the room of requirement to open. Huge brown doors appeared from nowhere on the wall. George pushed open the door and led Laura inside.

"Wow!" she gasped taking in her surroundings.

The last time she had been in that room it was filled with blankets, hammocks and mattresses just before the battle took place. Now it was much smaller with fairy lights twinkling around the walls, floating candles and a comfortable looking little nest which was made up of loads of cushions.

"This is amazing." Laura gasped as George led her over to the cushions.

On approaching the cushions, Laura noticed loads of red rose petals scattered around too.

"Do you like it then?" George asked as they sat down.

"I don't like it, I love it. It's perfect." Laura answered.

"I thought we could come up here and spend some time alone. I didn't actually think this room was still here. I thought it had gotten destroyed when Crabbe set the bloody place on fire." George spoke looking around.

Laura snuggled into George as he wrapped his arm around her shoulder.

"Do you think Hogwarts will be different now after everything that has happened?" Laura wondered out loud.

"I think it will be. Mum thinks there won#t be as much empathises on pure blood witches and wizards going into Slytherin." George answered.

"I'd love to come back again just for one more year. All of us ex-students should come back." Laura suggested.

"I think McGonagall was looking to get me and Fred to come back and help with Quidditch. She wants Harry back to do some training sessions." George answered.

"I don't think it'll be the same without Dumbledore. McGonagall is good at what she does but Dumbledore was brilliant." Laura said.

"I wonder if Snape will come back?" George said.

Laura and George sat and chatted for some time about Hogwarts and what it would be like once it re-opened. Unfortunately the couple didn't have long in the Room of Requirement as they had to go back and help again.

"And where may I ask did you two love birds disappear too?" Fred wondered wiggling his eyebrows as they entered the great hall again. "Or do I even want to know?"

"It's none of your business Fred!" Ginny snapped playful hitting her brother on the arm.

"Hey Harry, You should take Ginny to where I took Laura." George shouted walking over to Harry who was talking to Dean, Seamus and Neville.

"Where did he take you?" Ginny wondered.

"The Room of Requirement." Laura answered.

"Aha so he took you there for a snogging session then?" Fred chirped.

Ginny shot him a look that would kill.

"Right everyone we're going to move onto the classrooms now. Again we'll all split up into the same groups. I'll take my group to do the transfiguration and history of magic classrooms. Professor Slughorn will take his group down to the dungeons to work on the potion and defence against the dark arts rooms, Professor Sprout will take hers out to the green houses and work on that area and Professor Flitwick will take his to the Charm's classrooms. We shall meet here again at 4pm." Professor McGonagall explained.

"I'll see you later love." George said to his girlfriend before giving her a quick kiss. "I'll meet you down here at 4pm."

Laura headed off with her friends and Professor Sprout while George went with his fellow Gryffindors to make a start on the Transfiguration classrooms.

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The rebuilding of Hogwarts was coming along nicely and everyone was working extra hard to make sure it would be ready for its grand opening on September 1st when all the students would be arriving for a brand new term. As well as rebuilding the actual school, new staff members had to be appointed as well. A new muggle studies teacher called Angela Woodburn had been appointed and Snape was due to return as Defence against the dark arts professor. Letters had also been sent out to all the children who were due to start Hogwarts on the 1st September. Diagon Alley was also looking as good as new with all of the shops re-opened including Weasleys Wizard Wheezes which stood brightly at the end of the alley. It had been bursting with customers since it re-opened and people couldn't get enough of Fred and George's products.

Ollivander's Wand Shop too was extremely busy with witches and wizards purchasing new wands or 11 year olds getting their very first ones. It wouldn't be long before the wizarding world would be back to its normal self and people could get on with their lives again. Lord Voldemort was long gone and everyone hoped that his supporters were gone for good too. Only time will tell.