Albus’s plan for the past fifteen years had not changed one whit, since Alice and Lily had given birth to sons in late July of 1980: "Organise for Tom to fight the Chosen One who, thanks to my sabotages, is weak and unprepared. Tom kills the Chosen One. I kill (or secretly imprison) Tom, then grab the glory." But Harry had not followed the plan—Harry had killed Tom, and now Harry, not Albus, was receiving showers of glory. Nor, unlike Albus, had Harry spoken any blarney to make a gullible public think that Harry had killed Tom when in fact Harry had not. The severed head of Tom, shown to reporters, then photographed, then given to Amelia, ended any doubts whether Harry had killed Tom.