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Chapter 37- Explanations

Two Days Later

"Miss Granger, may I please speak to you for a moment?" asked Dumbledore before breakfast.

"Of course," Hermione replied.

"I have arranged for an interview for you and your friends later today with Ms. Skeeter. She would like to interview you about how you defeated Voldemort. I trust that you will pass along this information to your friends," Dumbledore replied.

"Of course I will," Hermione said.

"Thank you."

"You're welcome Professor."

"The Ministry administered the dementor's kiss to Voldemort!" Hermione exclaimed during breakfast. Hermione had spentmost of the mealreading The Quibbler and The Daily Prophet.

"That's good to hear," Harry said. "I know it won't bring my parents or Sirius back, but at least he got what he deserved."

"We have an interview with Rita Skeeter later," Hermione replied.

"Who does?" asked Draco.

"Neville, Luna, Ginny, Harry, Fred, you and me," Hermione replied. "About what it was like to defeat Voldemort. Dumbledore told me before breakfast."

"That's why he was talking to you?" Ron said.

"Yep."

"She's not going to distort what we said, will she?" asked Harry, remembering how she had made up a lot of stories about him during his fourth year.

"I don't think she'd put some sort of weird twist on this story Harry," Hermione said. "I think a lot of people would be mad or upset if she did that."

"I guess you're right," Harry said slowly.

After Breakfast

"Dumbledore wants us to tell Rita Skeeter about how we defeated Voldemort," Fred said.

"Yes," Hermione sighed. "I don't think she'll twist her words around. Not with a story like this."

"And when are we supposed to do this interview?"

"Right now, somewhere outside."

"But it's almost time for lunch!"

"Lunch is in an hour. We'll make it in time."

"Let's go then," Fred grumbled as he and Hermione headed outside.

The Voldemort Defeaters, as the group was now called by everyone in the school, were all sitting in a circle by the lake. Dumbledore was there, probably to keep an eye on Rita Skeeter.

"So Neville Longbottom, Luna Lovegood, Ginny Weasley, Ron Weasley, Fred Weasley, Draco Malfoy, Hermione Granger and Harry Potter all helped defeated Voldemort. Did I get all of those names right?" Skeeter said.

"You got everyone's name right," Hermione said.

"So what happened?"

"Well, we were all in front of the Great Hall and Voldemort was going to kill the 8 of us, I think, but while he was figuring out what to do, all 8 of us said the killing curse at the same time," Draco said.

"Then there was this vapor that swirled around him before it finally vanished," Ginny said. "The Ministry took him in for questioning after that."

"Why did all of you want to kill him?"

Neville, Hermione, and Harry wanted Voldemort defeated because of their parents, while Draco, Luna, Ginny, and Fred wanted to kill him because of what he did to their friends. Harry and Draco also had other reasons for wanting Voldemort gone- Harry because of Sirius and Draco because he thought Voldemort's ideas were dividing the already divided wizarding world even more than it already was.

"Harry, how does it make you feel knowing that you helped defeat the dark lord?"

"I guess I feel relieved knowing that I don't have to worry about him anymore," Harry said.

She asked them a few other questions before leaving to finish writing her article.