Everything that has troubled me since the moment I read that paragraph in DH has been happily resolved in your fic. I always thought that the Malfoys needed to be heard, and Harry needed to speak to them, but, as with Fred's death, JK only took us forward in time with no explanation, which makes her writing less believable. A good writer always gives closure to whathever it's written, if it's the end of a series.

Thanks for writing this.