Harry couldn't believe what had happened. A few weeks ago, Professor McGonagall had recommended to Oliver Wood that Harry join the Gryffindor Quidditch team as the house Seeker. Wood had taken Harry reluctantly, but once Harry was on the team Wood had trained him vigorously, honing the boy's skills until they were as perfect as they could be for the first match of the season: Gryffindor versus Slytherin.

The match had been a close one until Harry had caught the Snitch, boosting the Gryffindor score by 150 points to win the game. For the first time, Harry seemed to be accepted by all of the Gryffindors. He had been riding on the shoulders of his teammates when a woman in magenta robes had come asking to perform an interview for the Daily Prophet.

Harry looked down at the woman before clambering down off of Fred and George's shoulders. He went with the woman, who introduced herself as Rita Skeeter, into the very edges of the Forbidden Forrest, where no one would notice them unless they were looking closely at the outer trees of the forest. When they finally took seats on a log, Ms. Skeeter took out a notebook and a green quill, sucking on the tip of the quill before balancing the quill by its tip on the notebook.

"Now, Jonathan," Rita began before being cut off by Harry.

"Erm, my name's Harry, not Jonathan." Harry looked at the quill, noticing that the quill moved quickly when either person spoke. "Harry Potter."

Rita shook her head, sending blonde curls flying everywhere. "Of course you are, dear," she said, yanking Harry's attention back to the woman questioning him. "I'm sure that our readers would love to know how you convinced the entire Hogwarts staff that you are Harry Potter, something almost impossible to accomplish, especially considering your lack of a scar."

Harry looked at the woman, wondering why the readers of the Daily Prophet wanted to know this kind of information. "Um, I guess Dumbledore believed me, and Professor McGonagall believed me, so the two of them convinced the rest of the teachers." Harry watched the quill take note of his every word before remembering, "Except for Snape; he believed me because he said I'm like my dad. But he said that only after I said something I shouldn't have, so I'm not sure if he honestly believes me or not."

Harry read what the quill was writing after his quote: Jonathan Falso, winner of the Harry Potter Look-Alike Competition held in early June of this year, gives reporter Rita Skeeter an evil glare. His bottle green eyes, so much like the true hero's, narrow as he is informed that all of the wizarding world knows exactly what he is up to in his attempt to fool everyone into believing that he is the actual Boy Who Lived, the one and only Harry Potter.

"But that's not true!" Harry protested, gesturing angrily at the parchment notebook. "My eyes are narrowing because you're writing lies!"

The quill took these words down verbatim while Ms. Skeeter continued the interview. "Ignore the quill, Jonathan—."

"Harry!"

"Yes. Ignore the quill. What do you think is the biggest hurdle you've faced in convincing everyone of your false identity?" Ms. Skeeter looked genuinely interested in Harry's answer, but Harry could only look at what the quill was writing:

At this the boy, only eleven years of age, seems to lose his temper. He glares at the reporter, invoking his right to remain silent—evidence that he is indeed Jonathan Falso, the American award-winning imposter. The reporter reminds young Mr. Falso that he is not in the United States, and the boy—

"I am not an American!" Harry exclaims, looking angrily from the paper back to the reporter. "My name is Harry Potter, I have always lived in England, and until this past summer I had thought I was a normal Muggle!" Harry strode off for the castle, but he was followed the whole way by the continually questioning Rita Skeeter. The reporter only backed off when Professor Dumbledore met Harry at the doors to the school and demanded that she leave his students alone unless she had permission from the headmaster to interview any of them.

A week later an article was published in the Daily Prophet. The front page was taken up by a lengthy interview between "Jonathan Falso, the Shame of the Wizarding World" and Rita Skeeter. Harry read the article with Ron and Hermione, his temper rising as he read the lies published there. Over three quarters of the article had never happened; Rita had never asked Harry about "his true life," and Harry had not responded with anything like the foul curse words that had apparently "gushed from the young boy's mouth like blood from a punctured heart of truth." Harry hadn't even read halfway down the page before ripping the newspaper out of Ron's hands to shred it into tiny pieces and throwing them into the nearest goblet of milk, causing Parvati Patil to yell at him about his rudeness for both parading as the biggest hero the world has yet to see, and for ruining her perfectly good milk.

All throughout that day, Harry was approached by people who taunted him, and not once did they ever use his real name. From that day on, Harry was known to the students of Hogwarts as Jonathan Falso, the Shame of the Wizarding World.