I'll just join the countless others by piping up and saying that this is brilliant.

It's odd, I don't think I got any closure from the book until I read your fanfic. Until I could reprocess the feverishly fast read back through the epilogue you wrote, that is. Now even JKR's trite version has resonance.

Thank you for that. I can't speak for anyone else, but you saved the end of a nine-year obsession of mine from being thoroughly unsatisfying.

Thank you.