Epilogue

Harry watched in horror as his piece of cake flew across the room, curving gracefully in the air, and landing smack-bang in the middle of Remus' face.

"Oh no. I'm so sorry Remus!" he apologised as Ella laughed so hard she fell on the floor, "here let me get you a napkin. Geez I'm so – "

But whatever Harry was going to say next was cut off by a faceful of cream.

Spluttering, he wiped it off, and saw Remus' cake covered face laughing back at him.

Ella jumped up from under the table and grabbed the nearest plate of ice-cream in eager anticipation.

Harry grinned. "Right. That's it!" He scooped up a handful of pie and threw it as hard as he could at the sandy-haired man's face.

Draco skipped into the room, surveyed the scene, and, as if it was the most normal thing in the world, picked up a nearby jug of custard, and emptied it over Ella's, Remus' and Harry's head, officially earning himself a place in the food fight.

Sirius, hearing the commotion, casually strolled down to the kitchen to see what was up.

Upon seeing the bits of cream, cake, pie, ice-cream, custard and the occasional random meatball (don't ask) flying across the room, a maniacal grin spread across his face, and he leapt into the fray, wielding his deadly choc chip ice cream and four flavours of jelly.

Forty-five minutes later, when all the food in the house was currently spread across the walls, floors and ceiling, the quintet collapsed laughing on the floor.

"Well," said Sirius, after he finished wiping the custard away from his mouth, "seeing as we have no food left, I think I'll go buy some more!"

Remus, Draco, Ella and Harry shared an amused glance as Sirius lifted himself off the ground and walked out of the room. Thirty seconds later, they heard the front door slam. They looked at each other in amazement.

"You don't think – "

They rushed over to the window, and burst out laughing all over again. For there, strolling down the street like it was the most normal thing in the world (despite the shocked looks he was receiving) was Sirius, totally unrecognisable for the human he was.

"Well," Draco managed to gasp out, "I'd like to see the look on the shop keeper's face when he comes face-to-face with a multi-coloured abominable snowman."

And they cracked up all over again.

"That's my fiancée" Ella commented fondly, when the laughing died down.

Silence reigned for all of five seconds while Ella grinned mischievously.

"FIANCEE?!"

"WHAT?!"

"YOU'RE GETTING MARRIED!"

Ella laughed. "Eventually… We were engaged before, don't you remember Remus?"

Comprehension dawned.

"YOU DIDN'T SPLIT UP?"

"Well technically, yes. But only because he thought I was dead."

The boys sat in stunned silence, then as one, jumped on top of their sister/godmother/adopted aunty.

"Can I be best man?"

"What about us!"

"I REFUSE to be a flower boy!"

"That's for giiiiirrrrllls!"

"You can't make me be a flowerboy! It's just not natural! Do I look like a girl to you?"

"..."

"HARRY!"

So this is where we leave Harry.

He has three loving parent figures, a brother, and years of fun and laughter ahead of him.

His battle is over, and his life has begun.

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That's it! The end! I'm actually rather relieved – no more being yelled at for not updating :P

A big thankyou to TheDarkLadyOfRavenclaw for all your help! You've been a wonderful beta :)

Many, many thanks should also go to all you who reviewed. Without your feedback I might have abandoned this story, if only uploading it. I'm glad you enjoyed reading it. Thank you again!

Just some things:

I'll be doing 'Azkaban' next. It will probably be renamed. And I've also decided that I'm going to finish the story BEFORE I start posting it. Yes. Good course of action to avoid reviewers with pitchforks. Or crossbows.

Bye everyone!

p.s. I might be changing my name. 'Eruve Tinwen' is beginning to p!$$ me off… I will need my sister to help me employ an utterly ridiculous replacement ;)

So, if you want to find me (not that I'd know why) and I've disappeared, you could type in 'eruve tinwen' into the summary search because I'll put it as 'formerly called eruve tinwen' or something like that in my next random oneshot. Save us.