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If you're a true Harry Potter fan, then I suspect that you, like me, had an impending sense of dread as you neared the final pages of

the final book. After all, it was the end of an era. And as far as I could tell at the time,

there wasn't much new Harry Potter content on the horizon, besides a few movies, of course.

These books are released over a 10-year period spanning my entire adolescence, and needless

to say, they were pretty important to me.

Every release felt like a cultural event, and every chapter felt like stepping back into a world

that at times felt more real than reality itself.

So when I turned that final page of Deathly Hallows, I couldn't help but feel hollow.

Not because the ending was bad, far from it, but because I wasn't ready to leave.

And sure, over the years we got more content, the Fantastic Beast films, the Curse

Child Play, and various other things.

But none of it quite scratched that same edge.

None of it picked up where Deathly Hallows left off

in a way that felt fully satisfying. But what if there was another book? A book that gave us real

clarity on the aftermath of Voldemort's Downfall, a story that didn't skip ahead 19 years to a peaceful

train station, but instead started in the rubble of Hogwarts when the war

was over. A story that could replace the words all was well, not to placate us, but to finally

show us what came next. That's the story I want to explore. And thanks to the help of AI, we can

now write that story, a continuation of the Deathly Hallows that picks up the story not long after Voldemort

utters his final breaths.

But before we do this, we need to set some serious ground rules.

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