Epilogue: Summer Mail

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A/N: Please see the bottom. Reagan sat stiffly at the kitchen table, absent mindlessly string her cereal. She had been home a little over a month, and she was ready to get out of her house. She blinked into her cereal, remembering the end of year feast.

"Our year has ended in tragedy," Professor McGonagall had said. "A student was taken from us before her time. Her memory will remain in our hearts, even if she is not with us in the flesh. She had amazing talent in the Quidditch field, and helped Gryffindor to their win of the Quidditch Cup. But her achievements were not found solely on a broom, as she was very talented academically. Gryffindor lost a loved member of their house and she will be missed. Please join me in a moment of silence in honor of Josian Malfoy."

To Reagan's amazed, the entire hall bowed their heads, even the Slytherins. Reagan starred at her empty plate blinking back tears. Memories flooded through her head and Reagan ahd a hard time controlling her breathing. Her vision blurred and tears dropped onto the porcelain. Reagan looked up and caught Trevor's eye, and he smiled at her. She sighed, and managed to return a weak smile, as tears were slowly falling from her eyes. She glanced at Cal sitting beside her, and noticed how his breathing was irritate and uncontrolled, and tears were falling rapidly onto his plate. She put her arm around him and he leaned onto her, and they cried together in silence.

Reagan squeezed her eyes shut, trying to push the memory away. And then another crept into her head. This one was her own voice, speaking at Josie's funeral.

"Josie and I became friends during our first year at Hogwarts, right after the Sorting Ceremony. It would be a lie to say I befriended her or she befriended me, because in a way we were exactly what the other needed. We were both scared at being away from home really for the first time, though Josie probably felt farther away from home than I did. And I say this not because the house she grew up in was farther away than mine, quite the contrary actually, but the home that Josie knew was just a table away from us during that Sorting feast, though it could have been on the other side of the world for as far as away as she felt from it. It was a bit odd at first, but Josie and I got used to being at Hogwarts and I got used to the fact that she was a Malfoy and she got used to the fact that she was in Gryffindor."

"Reagan?" Ginny asked.

"Yes, Mum?" Reagan replied looking at her mother. Ginny stood in the doorway, watching her daughter.

"The morning post came," her mother said and handed her three envelopes.

"Thanks," Reagan said taking her mail from her mother. Ginny smiled and walked out of the kitchen.

Reagan glanced at the handwriting to see who each letter was from. One from Cal, one from Trevor, and one from school. Cal said he was enjoying France, and was learning some wonderful French history. Trevor's letter made her smile. He said hoped she was doing better and that he wanted her to meet him in Diagon Alley for lunch and shopping sometime. She missed both Cal and Trevor, and felt bad that was withdrawing herself from both of them.

The third was from Hogwarts and was heavier than she had remembered and she opened it curiously.

Dear Miss Potter,

We are pleased to inform you that you have been selected as a Gryffindor Prefect. Includes you will find a list of your duties and also your Prefect's badge.

Congratulations, Miss Potter, I expect you to uphold the values and ideals of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as you perform your duties with the honor befitting a Gryffindor. Sincerely Yours,

Professor Remus Lupin

Deputy Headmaster

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry


"Reagan?" Harry asked. Reagan looked up at him.

"I got made a Prefect," Reagan said. Like Trevor said I would.

"He's a fairly smart kid," her father said, looking back at his paper. "How is he?"

"Fine," Reagan said. "He wants me to come to lunch with him."

"That sounds nice," Harry said. "And Cal?"

"He's in France for the summer," Reagan replied.

"We should take a trip," Harry said, putting his paper down. "Its been a couple years since we went to America, and it could be a nice change of pace. What do you think?"

"I think I need to be home for a while," Reagan replied. "I need something stable to stand on right now, Dad."

Harry nodded and Reagan stood up.

"I'm going to go write them both," she said and carried her letters and new Prefect badge out of the room with her. As she walked up the stairs, her own voice rang in her head.

"Josie was like any other fourteen year old girl. She had crushes, and she doodled on her History of Magic notes. She liked to play Quidditch and she loved to laugh. She hated doing homework, but she also worked hard to make her father proud."

Reagan remembered looking at Josie's father as she said this. He was sitting in the front row, a bit unemotional and withdrawn from everything, but as she said those words he bowed his head, and began to cry. And for the first time Reagan felt sorry for Josie's father, not because his daughter had died, but because he didn't know his daughter, and watching him realize this and realize that he would never know her was the saddest thing Reagan had ever seen.
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"She's smarter than me, you know," Harry said to Ginny as she walked into the room.

"She's a girl," Ginny replied. "It shouldn't come as a shock."

Harry rolled his eyes. "How do you think she's doing?"

"Not good," Ginny replied. "But better. She'll be all right eventually."

"I hope so," Harry sighed.

"I know so," Ginny said, wrapping her arms around her husband. "You got through everything and you're all right."

"True," Harry said, and kissed her arm. "I just worry about her is all."

"Welcome to parenthood, Mr. Potter!" Ginny laughed. "Don't worry so much about her. She's strong, she'll get through. And she has plenty of people to catch her if she should fall."

"I bet Trevor would love to catch her too," Harry grumbled and looked back at his paper.

Ginny laughed. "Harry Potter, you are over Trevor Daniels. You like him now, remember?"

"Yes, I do like the boy, but no one will ever be good enough for my daughter."

"You'd be surprised," Ginny said. "My father once said that no one would ever be good enough for his daughter either. And look where that got us."

"Yes your father said that," Harry admitted. "Then I went and saved the world and he changed his mind."

"I doubt that changed his mind, and you didn't save the world alone."

"I know I know," Harry said. "I didn't actually save the world either."

"We are not having this conversation right now," Ginny laughed. "You like Trevor and thats all that matters."

"Fair enough," Harry replied and went back to his paper.
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The next time Reagan saw either Trevor or Cal was on Platform 9 & 3/4, on September 1st. Pinned on the front of her robes was her shiny new Prefect badge. The other fifth year Prefect from Gryffindor was her cousin, Ethan, and he passed her on the platform walking like he was superior to everyone around him. Cal caught he eye and laughed and Cal was the first to board the train.

"How are you?" Trevor asked.

"Depends on the day," she said and out her arms around him. "Most days I'm okay, others I'm not." She smiled up at him. "But I'll be okay."
Author Note: Lordy lordy lordy, we're done. I moved some things around so it cut about a chapter of this fic. Don't worry, you're not missing anything, it just got moved to the beginning of the third fic, which annoyingly I don't have a name for. The names are always the hardest. And I don't know when you all will be seeing it, as I don't know when I can come up with a name for it. But as soon as I do

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