Chapter 10: Aftermath

The days turned into weeks and the weeks turned into the months and people began having hope in the wizarding world. It seemed Voldemort sent many into battle and they always seemed to lose. The only time something good came out of their attacks was when they attacked the younger wizards. Only maybe ten Death Eaters remained by Voldemort's side as many were captured and the cells were filled up at Azkaban. Fred and George's business was as good as ever, and Ron and Hermione studied for weeks, dreading the NEWTs. Finally, they came and the two returned to Hogwarts on the day of the test.

'Is it true then Ron? Is what the Prophet said true?' asked Dean.

'What did they ask? I haven't really read it in a while.' Ron lied. He knew what Dean was talking about, 'Do you mean Harry? Yes, he died. Snape killed him and then was killed right after. Not to many Death Eaters seem to be around. Maybe You-Know-Who died.'

Dean shrugged and they walked on. After several hours of writing, everybody was sent home. The other year students did their end of year exams and Lupin looked on as they did the tests. He was thinking about how Harry died and knew it couldn't be true. But part of him was saying that it was.

One day at the Weasleys, Fred and George flooed to the house and saw everyone there except Arthur who was at work, and of couse Percy, who rarely visited.

'We did it! We made the potion!' Fred and George said happily at the same time. They pulled out a flask showing a silver liquid, 'I took a drink of it and a scar I had on my arm from one of the times I broke the bone real bad in Quiddich vanished instantly. We don't know exactly what it does, but it works. We are going to start selling it today. I saw this lady, always walking in our store looking at stuff, she seems to be cut up lots. I bet she will buy a hell of a lot of this!' Fred said grinning.

'That's great boys! But how do we know it is safe?' asked Mrs. Weasley.

'We tested everything on ourselves mum. Nothing has happened to us yet. We will inform you in a week.' George said before the two of them flooed back to their shop.

A week passed, and then a month and it was discovered that the potion that Fred and George made seemed to cure Werewolves from that status. It turns out the lady who had all the cuts all the time was a werewolf and the full moon was coming up. She drank the potion to remove the scars and cuts and it turned out at the end of the month she didn't become a werewolf. People from all over the world were ordering the potions from the Weasleys and they were given an Order of Merlin Class Three badge each, for discovering this potion. As soon as Lupin learned it was to cure his disorder, he bought a bottle from Fred and George. After drinking it, it seemed he could become a wolf as his animagus without training like the other three Mauraders had to.

Ron and Hermione got jobs and Ron was working for the Ministry under the watch of Ludo Bagman. Hermione became a professor at Hogwarts which reopened because there had been no killings at all in the Wizarding world in many months. People would say that the new Minister of Magic is incredible but they don't know who he is. Hermione taught Transfiguration that year as Aberforth did not want to teach anymore. Lupin took his post as the Defence Against the Dark Arts job and Ginny was made Head Girl. Lupin was still the head of Griffindor and the school was just as good as it had been when Dumbledore was in charge.

'Ron, how was your day at work with Ludo today?' asked Mr. Weasley as they ate dinner.

'Great. I hear they are planning on hosting the Quiddich World Cup in Ireland next year. I can get us free tickets.' Ron said happily.

'Fleur, when are you expecting?' asked Mrs. Weasley.

'May twenty fourth. Ve cannot wait.' Fleur replied happily.

'Any word on when you can reveal that you are the Minister?' Bill asked Mr. Weasley.

'Not until You-Know-Who is gone, and I doubt that will be anytime soon. I mean, look how long Dumbledore lived before Snape got him. He could live for at least another sixty years.'

Charlie saw the worried looks on everyone's faces and quickly asked his father a question, 'So, has any Death Eaters been captured lately?'

'No. We are missing Greyback, Narcissa and You-Know-Who, himself. Everyone else is gone. We also don't know is Pettigrew was killed yet or if he is in hiding.' Mr. Weasley said to Charlie.

They finished eating and began heading to the sitting room to do whatever, and Ron walked out of the door and apparated to England. He was in front of the phone booth and he entered it. typing the code to get to the entrance floor, he walked in to the next lift. He typed in a different number and landed on the Magical Games department and looked through his desk as he worked on his papers. Ron looked over towards the lift and it began moving down. Ron looked puzzled as it went down, and then back up. Ron pressed the button and the lift came to him. Ron pressed up and it landed on the main floor where he looked around, nobody seen.

'Come out now! Show yourself!' Ron said loudly.

Nobody moved and Ron began growing impatient when he pointed his wand in the air and looked around the room. Still, nobody moved.

'Accio Wand!' Ron shouted and a wand flew towards him from behind a chair. As Ron got closer to the chair, someone else jumped from behind a different chair and stunned Ron.

'Now we can get out of here. I wonder what bloke from the ministry I stunned. Oh my... It's Ron!' shouted the man.

'Are you serious, Sirus? That was Ron?' the other person shouted.

'Yeah. Harry, here is your wand. We should tie him to the chair before waking him up so he doesn't jump to conclusions. Sirius said, taking Ron's wand and casting a spell to make ropes wrap around Ron.

'Enervate.' Harry said quickly.

Ron slowly woke up and lifted his head up. He tried to move but he couldn't and then saw who was standing before him.

'Harry! Sirius! I thought you were dead!' shouted Ron.

'Not likely.' Harry said.