Afterword
A look at some of the people of the wizarding world five years after Harry Potter has left Hogwarts...
Eustace Bean & Cornelius Fudge – Eustace Bean was indeed given the nod for Minister for
Magic after Fudge received a vote of no confidence. Bean agreed to lift the curse on the
elves and decided that it was not practical to monitor former Slytherins, constituting about
twenty-five percent of the wizarding population, nor keep enough Veritaserum on hand for
every interrogation. Hogwarts did acquire a few Aurors as guards, but Dumbledore has put
them to good use training the members of the Dueling Club, which has continued to be a
popular school activity.
After leaving office, Fudge found a position in the Centaur Liaison office to which he is still
(unrealistically) clinging five years later.
Dennis Creevey – Dennis dated Jamaica Thomas (Dean’s sister) briefly when he was in seventh
year and she was in sixth, during a period when she and Will Flitwick were having a rough
patch. He took up with Gabrielle Delacour after Jamaica and Will made up. After his seventh
year, he went to work at the Ministry as a clerk in the department of Magical Law Enforcement.
The relationship with Gabrielle didn’t stick, however, and he is currently single and still
missing his brother a great deal.
Will Flitwick & Jamaica Thomas – After a brief rough patch in their sixth year (see above) Will
and Jamaica made up, and a year after finishing school, they married. Will trained to be an
Auror and Jamaica went to work at a magical greenhouse; her boss is one Neville Longbottom.
They live in a small flat in London.
Dean Thomas – Always artistic, Dean spent his long recovery drawing and sketching a great deal,
and afterward decided to go to a Muggle art school. Upon finishing his art training, he took
a position as an apprentice with one of the top magical portraitists in Britain, and now has a
popular studio in London where he is commissioned to create moving portraits of some of the
most well-to-do witches and wizards in Europe.
Ruth Pelta – Always feeling the pull of singing, after finishing her Hogwarts education, Ruth
enrolled in the Royal Conservatory to study opera. After completing her studies there, she
moved to America to continue her opera studies at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia
(at Hermione’s suggestion). She still longs to sing at La Fenice, in Venice, which was finally
rebuilt a little over four years after she left Hogwarts.
Neville Longbottom – Neville now runs the largest plant nursery in wizarding Britain, supplying
most of the botanical ingredients required for potions to apothecaries large and small. Several
years after leaving school he met his wife, a fellow botanist from Belarus and former Durmstrang
student. and five years after he left school, the two are living happily in Glastonbury
and expecting their second child. The first, a daughter named Fern, is two years old.
George, Angelina, Rufus and Rowena Weasley – George continues to be the creative mind behind
Weasley’s Wizard Wheezes and his wife Angelina has taken over the management of the business
from Percy, who is too busy with his Auror career to devote time to this now. Rufus and
Rowena began attending the Hogsmeade village school at the age of four and are a constant
trial for their teachers.