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Author's Note: The last chapter! Thank you all so much for your great reviews! For once, I am not going to add a superfluous author's note… until the end.

But beware: this is an epilogue, so it won't be long. Okay?

(6/26/06) A sequel to this story is now up! Or at least the prologue is up. But the first chapter will be up soon, so read and review!


So what was to become of our lovers– both young and old?

There would be love that would keep them warm on the coldest of days. A companion to cheer them up and bring them back down to earth. They would be friends, not just someone to hold when they needed it.

But there would also be heartbreak and sorrow. There would be leavings for a noble reason- to protect the one he loved. There would be tears shed for a death. There would be worry, for who knew what was going to happen to him, alone in the world, looking for something Dark and secret that only four people knew about?

There would be laughter and happiness. There would be sadness and depression. There would be hopes and dreams. There would be every emotion under the sun coursing through the bodies of the lovers.

Before all of the sorrow, the tragedy, the heartbreak, and the worry, everyone- Harry and Ginny, Hermione and Ron, Minerva and Albus- would live happily every after- for a little while.