Ginevra Weasley sighed as the young reporter from the Daily Wizard sat across from her in The Burrow. At 87 she was last living Weasley. "Miss Weasley? Can you tell me why you asked me here? There was something from your past you wanted the community to know? I thought we all knew about the heroics of your family during the Second War."
"There is one you don't know of." The woman told him. "I believe you know the date of October 3, 2005?"
"Yes, that was the date of the Downfall of Lord Voldemort at the hands of Harry Potter."
"That is true, but it is also the night when the lights went out in London."
"The Blackout, yes, I've heard of this, what does that have to do with you?"
"I was the one that caused it." She admitted. "That was the night they killed an innocent man."
"Innocent man?" he asked.
"He was on his way home from Hogsmeade. Been two weeks gone and thought he'd stop at the Leaky Cauldron and have him a drink 'fore he went home to her. Nathanael Osprey said hello and Charlie said 'Hi, what's going on?' Osprey said 'Sit down I got some bad news that's gonna hurt.' He said, 'I'm your best friend and you know that's right. But your young bride, she isn't home tonight. Since you've been gone she's been seeing that Davies boy, Roger.' Now Charlie got mad and saw red. Nathanael said 'Don't lose your head, because I've been with her myself.' That was the night the lights went out in London. That was the night they killed an innocent man.
"Nathanael got scared and left the Leaky Cauldron, he didn't live far. He didn't have many friends and he just lost one. Charlie thought his wife must've left town, he got out his wand and went to Nathanael's house. On his way there he found tracks too small for Nathanael to make. Nathanael was lying in his kitchen, dead. Charlie was found there by the Aurors, the wand that did it in his possession."
The reporter saw Ginny cradling a wand in her lap.
"They asked why he did it. Rufus Scrimgeor passed sentence of death before the bodies had grown cold. That was the night the lights went out in London. That was the night they killed an innocent man."
"But, Ma'am, he had the wand in his hand…the bodies before him."
"That was the night the lights went out in London. That was the night they killed an innocent man, they put my brother through the veil before I could say that the tracks he saw that night were mine. And the wand he had was mine. And his cheating wife never left town. That's one body they'll never find. Because you see when little sister aims her wand, she doesn't miss."
The man stood gaping and Ginny looked up at him as the cup of tea fell onto the floor, the cup shattering.
"That was the night the lights went out in London. That was the night they killed an innocent man."
"Charlie Weasley, you are hereby found guilty of the murder of Nathanael Osprey." The gavel fell with a thud. The veil blew in an unfelt wind. "Do you have any last words?"
"No." He told them.
