Chapter One Hundred Fifty
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Where do we go from here?
Where do we go from here?
The battle's done
And we kind of won
So we sound our victory cheer
Where do we go from here?
(Where Do We Go - Once More with Feeling)May 2nd, 1999The Memorial Gala to celebrate the one year anniversary of Voldemort's downfall
took place a month before the graduation at Hogwarts. Most of Wizarding Britain were
cheering and setting off fireworks. Those who were closest to battle, who had seen it all
up close and been in the middle of the fray, gathered together on the grounds of Hogwarts
to remember those they had lost.
"My... My sister, Hermione," Harry said with a soft smile when Kingsley dragged
him up in front of a large crowd to make a speech, "likes to remind me that the war wasn't
about me. That it wasn't my fault so many people fought and died. It's taken me a long
time to agree with her. I'm nobody special. I was just a wizard looking to protect his family.
Like everyone else. Like all of you. I think we did a good job. But lives were still lost, and
even as we celebrate freedoms that seemed impossible a year ago, we shouldn't forget that
while we fought to be the victors, others died as heroes."
And, like the Marauders and Mia had promised twenty years earlier, they mourned
them all.
A memorial garden had been planted west of the Black Lake in an enclosed area, in
memory of all those that had fallen during the war. One by one, people came and planted
flowers and herbs in honour of their fallen loved ones.
"For Alastor Moody, Rufus Scrimgeour, Edgar Bones, Benjy Fenwick, and all the
many Aurors that gave their lives," Kingsley said as he held his wand aloft, casting a light
of magic into the garden.