Cue No. 20

A quiet choir accompanied by bells delicately plays as Harry and Hermione look at the chapel next to the graveyard. It is Christmas Eve. On the shot of the graveyard, the dies irae can be heard. Harry wonders if his parents would be buried there. 

As he searches the gravestones, the choir sings a single note, and above, the celesta plays Hedwig's Theme. This statement reaches back to the very beginning of the story and pulls everything together. The Boy Who Lived has returned to the place where he mysteriously defeated Voldemort and tragically lost his parents. 

A second reference to the journey thus far is the Wand of the Phoenix, which also plays more delicately than ever before, only in the piano and bells. It reflects the quiet snowfall, and the mystery of Harry's survival through all of these years. 

Hermione finds a grave with the same mysterious symbol that Luna's dad was wearing and that she found in The Tales of Beedle the Bard. The Deathly Hallows Theme is distantly sung by a solo voice, then continued by the strings. The grave she found reads "Ignotus Peverell." She turns to tell Harry, but he is on the other side of the graveyard, standing in front of a headstone, unmoving in the snowfall. 

Hermione walks over to join Harry at the grave of his parents. The mirror scene from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) plays note for note here, reflecting the first time Harry saw Lily and James Potter. The Family Theme has never felt so full circle and so tragic at the same time, for now they are reunited the only way they can be in this world. 

Harry wishes Hermione a Merry Christmas, and we recall that it was this very day six years prior that he found the Mirror of Erised somewhere in the depths of Hogwarts. As the moment wraps up, Hermione notices someone watching them. The music fades away. Harry looks up and recognizes the old woman staring at them.