The same year that Harry, Ron, and Hermione should have graduated from Hogwarts, the Wizarding Wars began in earnest. They had been recruiting wizards to the side of good for two years, fighting minor skirmishes along the way, but no major battles sparked until Harry was eighteen. Then, on the outskirts of London one dark night, the sides clashed in a magical battle the likes of which had never been seen before, and it was begun.

Two years later, one year after Ginny’s graduation, she and Harry were married in a joint ceremony with Ron and Hermione. It was during a brief moment of peace and all of those on the side of good came to the wedding and rejoiced, including Fred and George and their wives of six months named Flora and Serena. It was almost like they knew what was to come. Soon after, the worst fighting began, and both sides sustained enormous losses. Charlie Weasley, Katie Bell, Seamus Finnigan, Lavender Brown, Penelope Clearwater, Colin Creevy, Justin Finch-Fletchley, Padma Partil, and Lee Jordan were only a few of those lost on the side of good.

Three months after their marriages and into the major fighting, first Ginny, then Hermione, realized that they were pregnant. Nine months later, they both had daughters only days apart from the other. Liza Beth Potter, Charlotte Molly Weasley, and their cousins Benson and Lawson Weasley, twin sons of Fred and Serena born about four months earlier, were given into the care of their grandmother Molly as their parents, aunts, uncles, and grandfather Arthur returned to war.

Voldemort had not been sitting idly by as all this was going on. Raising the Death Eaters to full strength again became his mission and destroying Harry Potter his obsession. However, in an odd moment of weakness and self-doubt, Voldemort entertained the horrific idea that he might loose. To prevent the total destruction of his line, he impregnated an evil young wizard, then, after she bore him a son, killed her to keep her quiet.

Then he went into the final battle. As the two armies clashed in the wilds of Scotland, Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort met in a private magical duel deep in the heart of the Forbidden Forest. The brother wands were raised against each other again, this time with the intent to destroy the other. A large, opalescent golden bubble once again burst from the wands and surrounded the dueling wizards; this one, however, was completely opaque, shot through with a pulsing, ever-changing rainbow of colors that distracted the eye.

Only one thing is known about that night for certain: Harry Potter was the only being to exit that bubble, though he was not unscathed. To this day there is a perfectly round clearing right in the center of the Forbidden Forest where, if you try to do magic within the limits of the circle, it tends to go a little amiss

Voldemort was dead. With him went Lucius Malfoy, Gregory Goyle, Andrew Kirke, Jack Sloper, Blaise Zabini, Igor Karkaroff, Antonin Dolohov, Jugson, Avery, and Crabbe’s father. Bane and Elspeth Pierce, two of his most loyal Death Eaters, took in his child and raised him as their own after Voldemort lost the battle against Harry Potter. They never told him the truth of his parentage.

As for Harry Potter, the battle had destroyed his memory. He wandered around the English countryside, wondering where and who he was. Ginny, Ron, and Hermione searched frantically for him for two years, as did much of the rest of their army, but to no avail. Finally, believing him dead, they held a memorial service for him. Draco Malfoy attended the funeral and, full of grief and confusion, Ginny turned away from her family and to Draco for comfort. Leaving her two year-old daughter Liza Beth with Molly Weasley, Ginny moved into the Malfoy Mansion and was soon pregnant with Draco’s son.

During this time, Ron and Hermione had moved back to their little house a few miles away from The Burrow, trying to raise their daughter Charlie and reestablish a normal life without having to worry about Death Eaters appearing at their door. They soon learned that they had very different ideas about parenting Charlie, and about the way to live as a family in general; they began to fight all the time, starting off with just little scuffles but soon graduating to week-long wars.

One day, after their most horrific fight to date, Hermione ran out of the house, sobbing. She was appalled because they had fought right in front of Charlie, and her beautiful little red-headed baby had shouted her first real sentence: “Mama and Daddy, stop fighting!” Her chubby little hands were covering her ears, and she just kept yelling that sentence over and over and over again. Both Hermione and Ron had stopped, shocked, and then Hermione had just burst into tears and ran from the house.

Wandering randomly through the woods, Charlie’s words ringing in her ears, Hermione finally stopped as she reached the banks of a little creek, almost a river, that ran through the farthest corner of their property. She stopped and knelt down to wash her face, and, as she looked up, vision slightly obscured by the water, Hermione realized that there was a man on the other side.

Drying her face on the edge of her shirt, she studied him more closely. The man looked like he had been living in the woods for years; he had a fully, bushy beard, long wild hair full of twigs and leaves, and was only wearing a pair of ripped jeans that were covered in mud and God knows what else. But there was something about him that was familiar… it took Hermione a few minutes, but she finally realized that the man was Harry.

Hermione rushed across the creek, using magic to propel herself over the water, and launched herself at Harry. It took her only a few minutes to discover that he still had no idea who he was, and had been living in the woods and moors, living off what he could forage and steal, for the past two years. To her credit, Hermione tried to convince him to go back to her house with her but, when that failed, she talked him into staying there by the river. She stayed with him for more than three months, cloaking their whereabouts, believing fervently that her friend needed her more than her husband and child did. She also tried everything she knew to recall his memory, but nothing worked.

Harry and Hermione grew closer and closer over this period, as would any two people living and working so intensely each day. Eventually, unbeknownst to her, Hermione also became pregnant with a son. She had pushed all thought of Ron and Charlie from her mind, only feeling brief twinges of guilt for what she was doing.

Ron was doing his own searching for his wife, but knew that if Hermione didn’t want to be found, she wouldn’t be. Heartbroken and bitter, he returned to his child and devoted his time to taking care of her, ensuring her emotional well being without a mother around.

Eventually one of the spell and potion combinations Hermione tried worked, and Harry regained his memory. He couldn’t believe what Hermione had done, and left her there, over four weeks pregnant, to return to Ginny. Hermione also returned to her family; at first Ron told her he didn’t want her back, but was swayed by the argument that Charlie needed her mother, and his daughter’s joy at seeing Hermione again.

Ginny didn’t know what to do when Harry appeared at the Malfoy Mansion. On the one hand, he was her husband, the man she loved, and the father of her child. But Draco was the father of her child, too, and she was relatively certain that she loved him as well. After a huge verbal battle between Harry and Draco, with Ginny trying to play the peacemaker, it was finally decided that Ginny would return to be Harry’s wife, as long as Draco got full rights as the father of the child.

When Hermione realized that she was pregnant, and that Harry must be the father, she came clean and told Ron everything that had happened during the three months she had been gone. He was disgusted, both with Hermione and Harry, and left her, moving into The Burrow and taking Charlie with him. But eventually, after much begging from Hermione and under the advice of his parents, Ron reconciled with his repentant wife.

It took him longer to forgive his best friend, and also it was difficult for Ginny to forgive Hermione; to try and work things out, the four of them went away for a while, alone, without their daughters, and spent days talking over everything that had happened. At the end of an exhausting week, they all reemerged into the world, closer, better friends than they had been even during their school days. Their was still the slightest bit of residual resentment, though, especially in Ron, which was brought to the forefront in the first few years after Harry and Hermione’s son Spencer had been born; eventually learning to love Spencer for who he was and not who his parents happened to be, Ron moved on.

Now about fifteen years later, all of their children are at Hogwarts. Liza Beth and Spencer Potter, Charlie Weasley, Fred’s sons Benson and Lawson Weasley, Xavier Tonks-Lupin, the adopted son of Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks, and Tatiana Hagrid, the adopted daughter of Rubeus, are members of Gryffindor House. George’s daughters Juliet and Emily Weasley, Sirius Black’s daughter Kiley Black, and the children of Cho Chang and Viktor Krum, Sorina and Chiro Krum, are all Ravenclaws. Trenton Malfoy, Bastian Pierce, and the daughter of Pansy Parkinson, Pandora Petrova, are in Slytherin House. Finally, the children of Neville Longbottom and Luna Lovegood are members of Hufflepuff House; their names are Frank and Belinda.

Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny accepted positions as Aurors after Harry’s return to society, and were sent to establish a division of the magical agents in Hogsmeade, to not only better protect Hogwarts but also to guard the mysterious clearing in the Forbidden Forest. Fred, George, and their wives opened an outlet of Weasley’s Wizarding Wheezes in Hogsmeade, as well, so their children could be close to their cousins.

Albus Dumbledore, Minerva McGonagall, and Severus Snape are still at Hogwarts, along with many other professors. After the Wizarding War, Sirius Black and Remus Lupin joined them as the joint Defense Against the Dark Arts professors. Nymphadora Tonks-Lupin lives at Hogwarts and works at the Hogsmeade Auror Headquarters.