ERNIE MACMILLAN spends four years as personal assistant to Headmistress Vector, where he quickly gains a reputation for being fiercely protective of all students, and highly intolerant of bullying of any kind. He and Linus share a flat at Hogsmeade for a time, and remain fast friends in the coming years. After his tenure at Hogwarts, he trains as a Healer and takes over his father's country practice. He has a few awkward relationships that go nowhere (including a handful of painful dates with Lavender Brown), and he ends up marrying Queenie Greengrass. They divorce after five years of childless marriage. She remarries, he does not. He serves on the Hogwarts Board of Governors, and leads a quiet and uneventful life in the country. He coordinates the Remembrance Day programme for the Battle of Hogwarts every year, and goes to Hogwarts once a month to personally maintain the memorial on the grounds for the rest of his days.