A/N: Eighth and final letter. This one is a bit less emotional, but I still cried while writing. Ah, well. The joys of being an author. I hope you enjoy reading it!
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Dear Hermione,
Really? It's been nineteen years and you want those letters NOW?
Sigh… The things I do for love.
Speaking of, Weasley isn't as ugly as I remember. You've got yourself a good one.
Your children are very beautiful, also. So are Harry and Ginny's. I hope all our children get along, quite unlike the lot of us. How wonderful would that be? Astoria has already revealed to me her hopes that Rose and Scorpius… "click".
I'm not looking forward to you receiving these letters. I wasn't anticipating your actually reading them. They aren't much; they will undoubtedly seem like quickly scrawled notes compared to the bundle you've sent me, which is ridiculously thick. And, as promised, I will not open them until Wednesday, like we agreed.
All joking aside, I think sending these letters will be good for us. You were all I had during that time, and even then I was only writing to my memory of you. I know what you mean when you talk about how scared you were, and are, and you're right; we don't have to be scared anymore. We secured a clear, bright future for our children, and they will never have to know what it felt like to be us at seventeen. They'll go through their seven years at Hogwarts smiling, laughing, making friends, and they'll take their O.W.L.S and their N.E.W.T.S and they'll get in trouble sometimes, and they'll earn House Points, and they'll score a goal or two in Quidditch and it will be wonderful, and we'll see the smiles on their faces and know that those smiles can be there because of what we did, and the sacrifices we had to make, and the friends we lost. And there will be days when we're sad and want to curl up in a ball and cry, but we'll see those bright smiles on those shining faces and… And we'll remember why we went through what we did…
It was good to see you again, Hermione. I hope to get together sometime soon. Invite the Potters. I'd like to get to know them better, too.
Much love,
Draco
A/N: It's been fun, guys. I'm sad that this is it, but I hope you enjoyed reading as much as I enjoyed writing. Again, don't forget to check out Cheerfully Blue's letters. Also, I don't normally ask, but if you could, leave us some reviews. We'd really enjoy hearing from you guys. Thanks for reading.