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AN: This is the last chapter of the story... Hate to disappoint some of you out there who'd like this story to be longer...
Chapter 9
"We're hooooooooome" Ron said in a slow tone.
"Are you really?" somebody asked from behind them and, when they turned, they nearly fell from their feet. In front of them stood a huge blue sparkling dragon.
"Oh, shoot" Ron muttered.
"Oh, shoot, indeed" the blue dragon replied kindly. "How nice to see you"
"Where are we? Who are you?" Hermione asked.
"This is an Alternate Universe to yours and to the one you've just been into" the dragon replied slowly and lowered its head so that he could look her in the eye. "As for me, I have many names... From Rovanor to Lomarchen to Igris and Montrikal, my personal favorite being Karon, or Karoin. I am a very ancient and powerful creature that knows many things... I even know how to send you back to your world"
"Karon?" Ron asked, looking weirdly at the blue creature.
"Yes, or Karoin, whichever you like most" he replied.
The three shocked teens could see two women dressed in long, black robes coming out from behind him and smiling.
"Jo! Tonks!" Harry said.
"Wotcha, Harry!" Tonks replied and Jo laughed merrily.
"What's going on?" the green eyed teen asked.
"Well, it's simple, actually" Jo replied with a small laugh. "I'm a witch and this is a very nice Universe with a lot of wise old mages and intelligent dragons... we are somewhat more evolved than your world and the one you've just been into are. Everybody lives in peace, mostly. Tomas Marvolo Riddle is a very intelligent, brave young man and quite cunning. He is now working with Dumbledore on a project on instant teleportation on different friendly planets. They are both considered as the mortal leaders of the planet. They are part of the Circle of Wisdom, just as I and Tonks are, but they decided to help the ones not in it."
"You're joking!" Hermione said, gaping. "Voldemort? A nice person?!"
"Well, there is no Voldemort to begin with" Tonks laughed. "So, he's just Tom to all of us. A great friend, I must say. He is the proud husband of Petunia Dursley and that makes him uncle of one specific Harry Potter"
"What?!" Harry cried.
"Yep. Tom's your uncle" Jo said and both women laughed. "Whereas Vernon Dursley has married Arabella Figg who looks really young"
"What?!" Harry spluttered again.
"And as for the Chamber of Secrets, it holds a great prize for all who get there: a wise old basilisk with the gift of human speech helps them gain wisdom by putting them pass tests and tutoring them" Karoin said with an amused chuckle
"You've got to be joking..." Ron muttered.
"Gilderoy Lockhart is one of the world's best fiction writers. He often runs away from fans because they bug him too much" Jo chuckled.
"Remus Lupin is a wolf Animagus and is highly respected" Tonks said with a huge smile.
"Sirius Black has never been sent to Azkaban and he is now in Africa somewhere, researching old magic with one Bellatrix Lestrange and her husband, both of which being under the direct command of Tom Riddle" Jo added.
"Lily and James Potter are two of the world's greatest mages..." Tonks said.
"Harry Potter is just another teenage boy..." Jo tried to complete.
"And Draco Malfoy is his best friend, along with Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley..." Tonks said triumphantly as she managed to take the word again.
"Together they are working on inter-house projects" Jo said victoriously as she managed to end it.
"So, the world is upside down" Hermione muttered. "But how come you know we're from an Alternate Universe?"
"We've been watching ya!" Tonks said and winked at them.
"We sensed a certain inter-world activity and we decided to check it up, get you here and from here to your homes" Karoin said. "We researched both your world and the world you were just into. And I'd like to say that it is not our world that is upside down, but your world."
"It's a matter of where you look from" Hermione said slowly.
"Ah, yes, of course" Karoin said. "Well, it's time for you to go home"
"Relax..." Tonks said.
"And have a nice life" Jo finished.
"You know, you guys remind me of Fred and George" Harry said, frowning.
"Ah, well...." Jo said and bit her lower lip.
"We're twins" Tonks said and winked. "But she got the nice name"
"Twins?!" the three gaped.
"Yup" Jo replied and raised her thumbs. "Ok, let's send them home"
"I'll do it" Tonks said and took out her wand. "Have nice lives!"
"Thanks!" the three said and beamed as they disappeared from Perfect World. Tonks smiled broadly.
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"Hey..." Jo said to her husband slowly, nearly sadly.
"Hi!" he replied. "What happened? Why are you sad?"
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you" she said, tears in her eyes.
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A few years later, Jo's seventh and last book was in the bookshops all over England. Only her husband found out about the trio visiting their world. Only he had met Flitwick and was told who he really was.
And all the fans all around the world could read the last words from the Harry Potter series:
"Hermione and Ron soon got married and had three children, two boys and one girl. The boys, twins, were called Sam and Bill. The girl was called Pearl and she was as beautiful as the sun and moon.
Harry married Luna Lovegood and together, they explored the wonderful creatures. Their name started appearing in Daily Prophet a lot, since they discovered Heliopaths and Grindiwiggles and many other creatures. They were said to float in air together, but to all those who had seen Death itself, the thruth could truly be seen as the two rode two wonderful Thestrals.
The world of magic fell to silence and it became peaceful... Until the new war would arrive. But that would not happen in hundreds of years."
However, nobody ever found out that Jo had written the end not out of what she felt would happen, but out of what she would have liked to happen, for her 'inner sight' had somehow disappeared... But, if the three lived in the world she wrote about, that would mean she gave them happy lives, no?
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"Tonks?" Kairon said and turned his wise, powerful gaze towards the young witch.
"Um... Yeah?" she asked slowly and concerned.
"That was not their world" the Blue Dragon said with a gaze that made her want to sink somehow under the grass. She slowly turned her gaze towards where the trio had just stood a few seconds before.
"Uh oh?" she said desperately.
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AN: Okay, so, this was the last chapter of the story. Be sure to look out for the sequel: "I Thought I Knew Where I'd End Up"! It is dedicated to Chikin Wang, who's reviewed each and every one of the chapters of this story!
Replies to reviews:
Tsuetsu: Well, I hope that this chapter enlightened the whole 'blue dragon' situation' ;-) Thanks for reviewing!
YamiJester: Thanks! And I'll keep writing (although I'll be writing the sequel)
Chikin Wang: Well, um... The fic was ending. But there will be a sequel –see up 6 or 7 rows, the AN-. And thanks for every nice thing you said in all the reviews of all the chapters –especially the last, since I already thanked you for the others :-)-
Alcapacien: 1. Thanks for the review :-))). 2.Eragon? Hmm, that might have been interesting. Just one question: what is Eragon?
Harryp/charmedfreak: Thanks for the review ;-) And the question is: which alternate universe is next?! –I mean it, I have no clue either and right now I'm lacking ideas. Alas, inspiration shall come by itself-
