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Chapter 17: The Last Years

The year then resumed, not without sorrows and wounds, many aurors and other wizards were dispatched to Hogwarts for a rapid reconstruction of it. Severus Snape continued to teach the potions, but he had grown more comfortable with the students and was a bit less biased even though he kept his intimidating side. Ron and Neville were fully in the corridors of the school and the Weasley parents had reassured their son by assuring them that the main thing was the happiness of their son, and they had immediately adored Neville.

Oliva and Draco had stopped hiding and although a relationship between a Gryffindor and a Slytherin was surprising, they only listened to their friends who were happy for them. Harry would never have believed that Draco would be part of the family, he could not go home anymore because his parents had practically denied him for choosing the other side.

Harry arrived in the 7th year and Olivia received "Outstanding" from practically all the subjects of her OWL to the delight of her parents before returning to the 6th year. Sirius left his work, he could no longer be away from his wife and decided to take the post of Flight teacher who had just released herself, Madam Hooch retiring. He was welcomed with open arms by the members of the teaching team and sometimes served as a guinea pig for the demonstrations of his wife's spells. It had the gift of making the students and the two professors' laugh. The end of the year came: Harry, Ron, Neville, Luna and Draco were going to have to spend their N.E.W.T. in order to enter the world of wizarding work afterwards. Harry's results was as follows:

NASTILY EXHAUSTING WIZARDING TESTS

The candidate is admitted if he obtains one of the following marks:

Outstanding (O)

Exceeds Expectations (E)

Acceptable (A)

The candidate is refitted if he obtains one of the following marks:

Poor (P)

Dreadful (D)

Troll (T)

HARRY JAMES POTTER GOT:

Care of Magical Creatures: E

Charms: O

Defence against the dark arts: O

Herbology: E

Potions: E

Transfigurations: O

Harry was proud of himself, with such (notes)(results) he could start his Auror training, Ron's results also allowed him, so the two friends could do the rest of their studies together. Draco had also had good grades and was attempting to study in banks and business, not seeking to return to politics as his father would have liked. Luna continued her studies towards journalism while Neville continued in the branch of Botany. Everything was in place, Draco and Harry spent as often as possible seeing Ginny and Olivia, which delighted the young women to the highest point.

They were pleased to be able to see the great changes that had taken place and lived their last year in a serene way and with the usual stress of the students. The young Black then had the beautiful news to discover that she had only Outstandings except in Divination where she had an Acceptable and Exceeds Expectations in Muggle Studies. She decided to pursue her studies in the care of magical creatures, on the side of Ginny it was very different. She had, of course, excellent marks but had decided to pursue Quidditch as a professional.

Years passed and all seemed to have forgotten the catastrophe that could have taken place at Hogwarts if the war had been lost. This passage had become an event taught in the History of Magic, but it had remained engraved in the hearts of many. But joy had overtaken the fear of the Death Eater's return. Ginny and Harry got married just like Draco and Olivia or Neville and Ron. Each family had grown: James, Orion and Lily for the first couple; Scorpius and Andromeda for the second as well as two children adopted by Neville and Ron named Fabian and Cedrella.

When Albus retired, Minerva replaced him as headmaster and Hermione then became Head of Gryffindor. Family reunions demanded a monstrous organization in view of the growing number of people making it up. Hermione and Sirius no longer left each other, if one was to travel, the other followed, if one was ill, the other was at their bedside. And it was with a common smile that they saw their first grandchildren arrive at Hogwarts.

The students were talking to each other, of course James and Scorpius had heard of their grandmother's exploits, but neither of them had asked for details. Thinking it was only a small story to which a heroic side had been added but nothing more. After all, how the woman they knew from childhood could have done all of this: to return to the past, to save a man from imprisonment in Azkaban, to destroy everything that would have allowed the Black Wizard to return, be tortured and say nothing, to fight Voldemort himself. It was too much for a single woman and so for them impossible to think that all this was true. Yet by listening to the other students talk about their grandmother they had some doubts about how they saw things.

"Say you think she will tell us about her fighting with the Death Eaters in detail this year? I've been waiting for this since I arrived at Hogwarts!" A student exclaimed.

"I can't wait to see her patronus, it seems that it is an otter and that it has already used against dementors you realize?"

The two boys looked at each other, they could not really imagine their grandmother as a great fighter, but apparently it was a fact. They should soon be there because after all she would not be more patient with them than with the other. Harry and Ron were Aurors, Neville Professor of Herbology, Olivia worked at the Ministry as part of the magical creatures and Draco worked in the affairs where he had mingled Muggle world and wizarding world. This world was almost a perfect place, lives had been protected and saved, things had resumed their course even though sometimes Hermione wondered what would have happened if she had not gone back in time, if she had lived with misfortune which had struck his time.

In spite of everything, today she no longer thought of it, seeing only the good side of her life she could not have asked for better. Nothing could have filled Hermione, who had seen so many deaths and misfortunes. On the last day of her life she knew she had made the right choice. She had not only saved friends and family, but she had created a new one, and in a way, she had saved herself.