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1. I haven’t read any of the Potter novels, but…for the sake of protecting these (undoubtedly well known) spoilers, couldn’t you have used a <MORE> tag?

   — M-D    12 November 2007, 23:51    #

2. My guess is that they never finished school, but didn’t need to, as they all found work anyway.

   Teddy comes over for dinner several times per week (see below).

   And lastly, House Elves are better off, but I doubt they were all freed (see below).

   From Wikipedia . . .

   (Link attached to my name)

   Epilogue
   Nineteen years later, Harry and Ginny Weasley are married and have three children: James, Albus Severus and Lily. Ron has married Hermione and they have two children, Rose and Hugo. The families meet at King’s Cross station, where a nervous Albus is departing for his first year at Hogwarts. Harry’s nineteen-year-old godson, Teddy Lupin, is found kissing Victoire Weasley in a train compartment. Teddy is a frequent visitor to the Potters, coming to dinner several times a week. Harry sees Draco Malfoy and his unnamed wife with their son, Scorpius; Malfoy acknowledges Harry with a curt nod, then turns away. Harry comforts Albus, who is worried he will be sorted into Slytherin. He tells his son that his namesake, Severus Snape, was a Slytherin and the bravest man he had ever met. He adds that the Sorting Hat takes one’s own choice into account. Neville Longbottom is now the Hogwarts Herbology professor and is close friends with Harry. The book concludes: “The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well.”

   Rowling’s commentary and supplement
   In an interview⁴, online chat,⁵⁶⁷, Wizard of the Month section of her website, and during her 2007 U.S. Open Book Tour, Rowling revealed additional character information that she chose not to include in the book. She stated that:

   Harry becomes an Auror for the Ministry of Magic, and is later appointed head of the department. He keeps Sirius’s motorcycle, which Arthur Weasley repaired for him, but he can no longer speak Parseltongue after Voldemort’s soul fragment inside him was destroyed.
   Ginny Weasley plays for the Holyhead Harpies Quidditch team for a time, leaves to establish a family with Harry and later becomes the lead Quidditch correspondent for the Daily Prophet.
   Ron Weasley works at George’s store for a time, Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes, then joins Harry as an Auror.
   Hermione finds her parents in Australia and removes the memory modification charm she had put on them for safety. She initially works for the Ministry of Magic in the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, greatly improving life for house elves and their ilk. She later moves to the Department of Magical Law Enforcement and assists in eradicating oppressive, pro-pureblood laws.
   Dumbledore’s friendship with Gellert Grindelwald extended to romantic love, which may have initially blinded him to the extent of Grindlewald’s schemes.⁸
   Rowling also explained the fates of several secondary characters:

   George Weasley continues his successful joke shop and names his first child Fred, in memory of his late twin brother.
   Luna Lovegood searches the world for odd and unique creatures. She eventually marries Rolf, a grandson of the famed naturalist, Newt Scamander.⁷ Her father’s publication, The Quibbler, has returned to its usual condition of “advanced lunacy” and is appreciated for its unintentional humour.
   Firenze is welcomed back into his herd, who finally acknowledge the virtue of his pro-human leanings.
   Dolores Umbridge is arrested, interrogated, and imprisoned for crimes against Muggle-borns.
   Cho Chang went on to marry a Muggle.⁹
   Neville Longbottom eventually marries Hannah Abbott and lives in a flat above the Leaky Cauldron, when she becomes its new landlady.¹⁰
   There have been transformations in the wider wizarding world:

   Kingsley Shacklebolt is the permanent Minister for Magic, with Percy Weasley working under him as a high official. Among the reforms introduced by Shacklebolt, Azkaban no longer uses Dementors. Consequently, the world is now a “much sunnier place”. Harry, Ron, and Hermione have also been instrumental in reforming the Ministry.
   At Hogwarts, Slytherin House has become more diluted and is no longer the pureblood bastion it once was, although its dark reputation lingers.
   Voldemort’s jinx on the Defence Against the Dark Arts position is broken with his death. There is now a permanent Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.
   A portrait of Snape, who briefly served as Hogwarts Headmaster, does not appear in the headmaster’s office as he abandoned his post. Harry ensures the addition of Snape’s portrait, and publicly reveals Snape’s steadfastness.

   — Troy    20 November 2007, 13:44    #

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