Chapter 190 – Epilogue
Standing over the corpse of Dumbledore, Quincy finally let me go, recovering the Elder Wand while I pulled the resurrection stone from my pocket.
"Congratulations." A distant voice said the moment I did, and slowly, Dumbledore’s spirit materialized, looking at his own dead body.
"Weird to hear it from you," I mumbled, not expecting him to pop out of nowhere to say his piece.
"I am already dead. There is no reason to hold a grudge... I had bet everything on the wrong move; it is that simple. I lost, you won, and now you will destroy them..." He sighed, his eyes turning towards the Hallow in my hand.
"Yeah, that’s the plan." I answered as I played with the stone between my fingers, and Quincy gave me the Elder Wand. "Do you have any messages you want to pass on?"
"None. I fought throughout the last part of my life just to destroy myself in the end. Hmm... There is a lesson there, it seems, that I didn’t learn."
Maybe... but I wasn’t in the mood to answer him. Instead, I tossed the Resurrection Stone into the air, blasting it with the Elder Wand, vaporizing it with one forceful spell. Just holding it made me feel powerful, which was a weird experience because I was also aware that it was the type of perception change that was baked into the artifact itself. Was I that much more powerful with it? Probably not to the extent it made me feel in that moment. What an insidious little bastard...
"One more." I mumbled after Dumbledore’s spirit dissipated, and then Quincy threw the Philosopher’s Stone into the air as if we were shooting ducks, making me repeat the same feet, blasting it apart, making sure nobody could get their hands on it. "Now... Only this remains."
"How are we going to destroy it?" She asked, looking at the wand now that we managed to destroy everything that was too dangerous to exist.
"Well..." I mumbled, looking behind me as people finally arrived, observing the ruined scenery. "We still have a famous silver sword, no?" I smiled, lowering the wand and letting the people know it was over...
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