The fight continues, but now the victor is a foregone conclusion. It’s only a matter of tying up the loose ends. By sunset, Voldemort is dead – completely dead, this time – and Kingsley Shacklebolt is organizing the restoration of Hogwarts. Anyone who wants to leave goes to Hogsmeade to floo out. Harry and Astoria depart for the Burrow with the Weasley family. Hermione and Draco, hand in hand, walk back into the Great Hall to find the wounded still being cared for and now, heartbreakingly, the dead waiting to be identified. "It could have been much worse," Hermione hears someone say, and yes, it could have, but that will be small comfort to Lavender Brown’s family or the parents of Colin Creevey.