The Big Dipper

Epilogue

Ursula Weasley had everything she ever wanted.

She had a beautiful, sprawling house, more money than she could ever need, and a roaring career. Not only was her sanctuary flourishing, but she had won her seat on the Wizengamot in one of the largest landslides in wizarding history. A Transfiguration scholarship was established in her name, and after the birth of her children, she had decided to join Hogwarts' Board of Governors, which she now headed.

Speaking of her children, they were, along with her many magnificent dragons, her pride and joy. Perseis, her eldest daughter, was in her third year at Hogwarts — as a Slytherin. By the time she had turned eleven, there was little doubt that she would follow in her mother's footsteps.

Then along came Lysandra, who would be starting Hogwarts this very day. A Metamorphmagus from the day she was born, she had mastered the art of imitating others. She had inherited her father's knack for pranks — and her mother's ability to lie flawlessly — and Fred and Ursula were sure she would become a Gryffindor.

Two years after Lysandra came Cecil, with the middle names Newton, in honor of Newt Scamander, and George, for Fred's twin. He was born the very same day as George and Angelina's youngest, Jude Frederick, and the two boys had been inseparable since.

The last child in Ursula's blossoming family was Rhiannon Lumina Cassia — Rhiannon for Rue, and Cassia for Cassius. She was the only child to inherit Ursula's black locks, though all four children had impossibly curly hair. All of seven, she was a bundle of energy, the sort that rivalled Lysandra, who practically bounced off the walls of Corvus Manor.

Of course, Ursula's life would be wholly incomplete without her wonderful, amazing, absolutely perfect husband. She and Fred had just celebrated their seventeenth wedding anniversary — seventeen whole years of wedded bliss. Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes was doing better than Fred and George could have ever dreamed, opening up dozens of locations in a multitude of countries.

She was far from the only one whose adult life was as wonderful as could be. Percy and Oliver had married, with Ursula serving as the maid of honor, and soon adopted a son called Arthur. Percy had just recently been appointed Head of the Department of Magical Transportation. Bill and Fleur worked together at Gringotts and had three children, the eldest of whom, Victoire, was in her final year at Hogwarts as the Head Girl.

Charlie, though happily without children, had a grand total of nineteen nieces and nephews to dote on, which he did endlessly. Rue, similarly unmarried and perfectly content to be so, had, rather surprisingly, adopted a child, a lovely young girl named Zeppa. Lee continued Potterwatch, keeping the name even as it expanded into one of the most-listened to broadcasting programs in the wizarding world. Its biggest fans were his wife, Alicia, and their children.

Both George and Ron worked alongside Fred to build their family business, George with his daughter Mabel, twins Evan and Oliver, and son Jude, and Ron happy as the father to Rosalie and Archibald — or, as they were commonly called, Rose and Archie. Ginny and Harry, who had both found security and happiness after the war, had three kids of their own — James Sirius, Albus Remus, and Ruby Luna, Ruby being in honor of Rubeus Hagrid.

Tonks and Remus had no children after Teddy, but he was such a handful they didn't need any others. Out of Hogwarts now, having been a prefect, Head Boy, as clumsy as his mother, and a trouble maker to rival Fred and George and the Marauders, he had finished an internship as a dragonologist and was headed to Egypt soon to try his hand at curse-breaking. He had been dating Victoire for some time now.

Draco had ultimately given in to his mother's wishes that he begin a courtship, though largely because, by then, he had already fallen quite in love with Astoria Greengrass. They had one wonderful son, Scorpius Hyperion, and though Astoria's health was in poor condition, there was much hope, as Ursula had a team of accomplished Healers and Potioneers working to find a cure.