laughs Yes, a classic failure of pre-strike intelligence and planning; Tom most certainly paid for it and most ignominiously (fitting way to firmly trash his reputation for posterity, though). The horcrux search by the two couples should be rather interesting, particularly in their sleeping arrangements (I suspect Fleur has already sussed out just how close Ginny & Harry already are). Methinks the British wizarding world is in for quite the kick-in-the-pants as this groups moves into adulthood from Hogwarts, since they've all already proven their abilities and have also found lots of the current group of adults "wanting".
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Thank you for your comments!
Maybe I should consider a sequel as opposed to just an epilogue?
What do you readers think? Would you like to read about Bill, Fleur, Harry, and Ginny searching for horcruxes? Bill will eventually figure out Harry is doing the same things with Ginny that he is with Fleur. I was going to just do a "Five Years Later" epilogue but if I get enough people asking I close this story here and start working on a sequel.