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Meanwhile Voldemort discovers that the basin in the cave is empty. He checks all his other Horcruxes and discovers that they are all gone except for Nagini - he doesn't know that Harry too is a Horcrux - and then he assembles his forces for a final assault upon Hogwarts. His side gains the upper hand, but the prize he really wants has so far eluded him: Harry's death. Snape decides that the time has come to deliver your message to Harry and he offers to bring Harry to Voldemort, but Voldemort has other plans. He orders Nagini to bite Snape, thinking that since he conquered Snape, who conquered you by killing you, the wand will now serve him. Believing that he now has what he needs to defeat Harry, he declares a one-hour truce and calls upon Harry to surrender to him to avoid any further bloodshed.

Harry finds the dying Snape, takes the memories oozing out every hole in Snape's head, carries them to your Pensieve and learns, among other things, that he must allow Voldemort to kill him. He tells Neville Longbottom to kill Nagini and then, without even considering the question of who will kill Voldemort afterwards, he surrenders to Voldemort, who casts the Avada Kedavra Curse on him. But Voldemort's wand will not serve him, because your real conquerer is not Snape, who killed you on your request, but Draco Malfoy, who disarmed you. The curse knocks Harry out but doesn't kill him. It does, however, destroy the Horcrux in his forehead. Evidently the Horcrux could be destroyed without killing Harry because it had flown into his forehead instead of being put there by Dark Magic. Had you only known that, you could have exorcised it yourself and spared him the agony of walking to what he thought would be his death. Harry regains consciousness in time to see Voldemort put the Sorting Hat on Neville Longbottom's head and set fire to it. He puts out the fire, gives your sword to Neville, who kills Nagini with it, and then gives Voldemort a chance to surrender and show remorse, explaining to him why the Elder Wand failed to kill him. Voldemort rejects the chance to surrender and challenges Harry to a duel. He casts the Adava Kedavra Curse, which Harry deflects with the Expelliarmus spell back onto Voldemort, killing him. Without their leader, the Death Eaters lose heart and are soon overpowered by their enemies.

The good guys have triumphed and life in the wizarding world takes a decided turn for the better. Harry and Ron become Aurors, Ginny graduates from Hogwarts and then becomes a Chaser with the Holyhead Harpies, an all-witch Quidditch club, and Hermione graduates from Hogwarts and then goes to work for the Ministry, first to better the working condition of House Elves and then to improve the state of Magical Law Enforcement. Ron marries Hermione, Harry marries Ginny and they all start families. When Ginny's first child is born, she retires from the sport to become Quidditch correspondent for the Daily Prophet.

If you are satisfied with this state of affairs, turn to page 50.

If you want to explore the consequences of a different set of choices, either turn to page 2 to start from the beginning or return to the page that contains the choice you want to change.

You have made all the same choices as Albus Dumbldore made in the books. This is the sequence of choices that leads to the Easter Egg. If you want to know all the choices you could have made and their consequences, turn to page 51.