The war was over. Draco thought over that statement, and added the capital ‘W’. It really needed it. Not only had Voldemort been defeated by a teenager, but quite a few people, including Deatheaters, Order of the Pheonix people, and ‘innocent’ Muggles – although to hear Granger going on about it, even the muggles weren’t innocent. There was something called a nuc-le-are bomb to consider.

But the point was that the War was over, and a lot of people had died. True, the scourge of the wizarding world was gone, but so was half the wizarding population of Europe. Dumbledore had died,...