Reviewer Responses

Kyiana Wisperwing- Thank you for the wonderful compliment. As for Draco staying 'good', you'll just have to wait and see.

Shdurrani- Thanks for catching that mistake. :looks sheepish: I thought I caught all my mistakes.

Des Felidra- Sorry about that problem. I deleted all my little author's notes that I put up as chapters. So it wasn't a problem with perse as much as it was keeping up with my changes.

GoddessOfAllDarkness- LOL, glad you like that. Thanks for the compliments.

Lady Saffron of the Daggers- I do hate Snape…he's such an asshole, pardon my French here, but he is just acting like a little kid holding onto the grudges he had against Remus, Sirius and James and transferring them onto Harry and his friends. As for having Buffy kill Snape…well she technically can't kill a human cause she's a slayer (doesn't mean she can't beat the shit out of him). I just got inspired about having Umbridge and Fudge be Deatheaters (it would make perfect sense, wouldn't it?) Glad you like my version of Faith.

God, the holidays this year have been a whirlwind. Sometimes I love my family others I just want to…Anyway, I finally survived through to the new year and hope that everything is going to go better than last year. I will finally be graduating college with my BA in Liberal Studies in the Fall…GO ME! Hopefully at the beginning of the next year I'll be able to start teaching.

Arica, Princess of Rivendell- :raises eyebrows: Did you read Book 6? Snape is evil. Otherwise he would have never killed Dumbledore.

Thomas- Glad you like my little twist about Fudge being a deatheater. Thanks for the review.

GoddessOfAllDarkness- Thanks for the compliments. I am glad you are liking my story. I happen to agree with you about Harry and Ginny. And I will check out your story.

NearlyHeadlessNic- Thanks for the compliments.

Sarah Lila F- You know…I don't really remember what the incantation for the spell was…I just used the little bit of Latin I knew. Hopefully in later chapters I can do the spellwork and fighting styles justice. As for the pairings…the only clue that I'll give you is that I will be using HP canon pairings.

pillzey the joker- Thanks for the review. Sorry to hear about your trouble with your little cousins…I know the feeling. ;) I watched over my little cousins during Thanksgiving.

Buffy-CrazyaboutAngel- Here's the long awaited update. Hope you enjoy.

Just Me Prime- Thanks for the review and compliments.

Radiofreegirl- LOL, another impatient one huh? Well you asked and you shall receive.

Author's Note

I just want to apologize to everyone for not updating any sooner, I have been swamped with the holidays, school, work, and winning stuff off the radio. LOL! Yes it's true I won some great stuff off the Radio in the last couple months since I last updated…tickets to the Rob Thomas (formerly of Matchbox 20) and Anna Nalick concert, Greenday's CD/DVD Combo Bullet in a Bible, movie tickets. Plus I had to write a 10 page term paper for one of my many classes, study for finals, go to work, attend classes, and just plain study for classes.

Chapter 12:
Explanations Part 2

The entire group that was in the room gasped at what Snape revealed. Well, maybe all except for Harry, his friends, and the Scoobies; they had already developed preconceived reasons as to why Fudge wouldn't believe Harry or even Dumbledore. And the most logical one that they came up with was he was either being paid off by Death Eaters to NOT announce Moldy Voldy's return, or that he was a Death Eater himself and was under orders.

After a few moments of shock, Dumbledore audibly sighed. "Nymphadora, would you please escort Severus to the Ministry holding cells," he asked.

Tonks nodded, ignoring the fact that Dumbledore called her by her dreaded (by her at least) first name. Only Dumbledore, Professor McGonagall, and her parents could get away with calling her by it. She turned to Snape and said, "Petrificus Totalius," placing the horrid man in the full body bind, then placed the anti-apparition shackles on his wrists. Grabbing Snape's arm, she then disapparated to the Ministry of Magic, leaving everyone in the room.

Once Tonks left, Dumbledore looked around and continued the interrogation. The only people that were left were the Scoobies, except Dawn, since it was against the law to administer veritaserum to minors. So, the first person that Dumbledore questioned was Buffy, who was a little indignant, but never the less opened her mouth for the three drops of veritaserum.

A few moments later, Buffy's eyes were slightly glassy and Dumbledore knew she was ready to be questioned. "Your name is Buffy Anne Summers, correct?" he asked.

"Yes," came the reply.

"Are you loyal to the side of light or the side of dark?" Dumbledore continued.

"I am always loyal to the side of light."

"How were you able to defeat all those Death Eaters?" he asked, suppressing a grin, though his eyes were twinkling madly.

"I am a witch and the longest living slayer on record." Gasps were heard through out the room from the Weasley kids (well except Ginny and Ron), Moody, Amelia Bones and the other order members.

"Can you tell us who you have fought before?"

Buffy nodded. "Sure. I've fought Lothos, The Master, William the Bloody, Drucilla, Angelus, The Judge, the demonized Mayor of Sunnydale, the Order of Teraka, a cyborg-demon-human Frankenstein monster by the name of Adam, a secret government military group experimenting with demons, a bitch hell-goddess named Glorificus, and The First Evil and it's minions and

those are just the major Big Bads," she admitted nonchalantly.

"How long have you been fighting the forces of evil?"

"Since I was fifteen, so for nine years," she replied as the veritaserum wore off. As she looked around the room, she saw the looks of awe on their faces and groaned. Looking to her best

friends, and little brother and sister, she nervously asked, "What did I say?"

Xander chuckled. "You just gave them a run down of the major big bads we fought and told them how old you were when you started fighting…"

"I think that they are in shock," Dawn finished as she snickered.

Buffy groaned again and then looked at everyone. "Look you guys, there's no need to look like that, I'm just a normal girl…"

This time it was Harry who interrupted her. "You're not normal Buffy," he grinned wickedly, "after all you've died twice, sealed away the First Evil, and destroyed the Hellmouth over Sunnydale."

This caused another round of shocked looks. However, a few moments later, everyone had recovered from their shock and Albus continued questioning the rest of the Scoobies who were there. The whole questioning thing took a couple of hours. But once it was done, the long dreaded question/answer session was set to begin.

What the Order members didn't expect, was that Buffy, Willow, Xander and Dawn were prepared for it and as soon as the questions started flying from everyone at once, Buffy spoke up, loudly.

"All right!" she bellowed, "Look, we'll answer your questions, after we tell you our story, does that seem fair?"

Everyone nodded their agreement and Buffy audibly sighed in relief. "Ok, now I am sure all of you have heard about the "Slayer, right?"

The shocked looks were all that Buffy needed to confirm her suspicions and continued. "For those of you who don't know, the Slayer, is the one girl in all the world with the strength and skill to fight and defeat vampires, demons and all manner of evil. There was a saying that went like this, 'Into each generation a Slayer is born. One girl in all the world, a Chosen One. One born with the strength and skill to fight the vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness; to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their numbers. She is the Slayer.' However, I changed that when I was called."

"How did you change it?" Tonks asked curiously.

Willow glanced at Buffy, who nodded she could continue. "Well," Willow began, "up until Buffy, all potential slayers were taken from their homes and trained to fight by this group of

stuffed up British guys who called themselves the Watchers Council…"

"But over the centuries that the Watchers cared for and trained the slayer, they began as seeing her as nothing more than a piece of property. And if a slayer were to have a mind of her own, than she was disposed of and a new slayer was called…" Dawn added, "You see when one slayer dies, another is called. And Buffy, who's never been normal," Dawn ducked the hand Buffy had stuck out of knock Dawn upside the head, "was not found by the Watcher's Council until after she was called."

Buffy nodded, "And according to the original Watchers Council, slayers shouldn't have families or friends, which eventually shortens their lifespan…"

The gasps from throughout the room caused Buffy to pause. A moment later, Bill asked, "How old are slayers normally?"

"Slayers are normally called between the ages of thirteen and eighteen. I was only called when I was fifteen, so I have been fighting the good fight for nearly ten years. And as far as I know I am the longest living slayer in history," Buffy answered.

She paused, then continued, "But as I was saying, because I still lived with my mother and sister when I was first called, I had a link to the people whom I was fighting for. Not only that but I also had my friend Pike, when I was fighting Lothos, and then later when Dawn, my mother and I moved to the Hellmouth I had Xander and Willow and a few other friends over the years who knew my secret and helped me with the slaying and research."

Over the next few hours, Buffy, Dawn, Willow, and Xander told the story of their lives fighting evil, highly editing the part concerning Glory and Dawn, and the last year in Sunnydale. They never revealed the truth about Dawn's existence, nor did they reveal the mini-slayers. The only reason that Harry's friends Ron, Hermione and Ginny, as well as Dumbledore, Remus and Ron and Ginny's parents knew the truth were for the following reasons:

1. Ron and Hermione were considered by Harry to be like his brother and sisters, and Harry was
family to Buffy.

2. Ginny was Harry's girlfriend, or damn near to it and was to be considered family as well.

3. Harry considered Molly and Arthur to be as close to the parents he never knew as he could get.

4. And Remus was as close to an uncle as the Potter kids would ever come and had Lily
andJames been alive, he would have been privy to these little family secrets.

5. Dumbledore knew because he had figured it out, after having heard the prophecy and it was
necessary to tell him since he was the leader of the opposing force against Voldemort.

Well, after the four-hour long discussion about their lives on the Hellmouth, which included how exactly Buffy, Xander, Dawn, and Willow were able to pull off the fighting that they did, the Scoobies, Remus, Harry, and his friends bid everyone a good night as Dumbledore prepared a portkey to the S.W.W.C.H.Q. in Rome.

"Remus," Dumbledore called.

The werewolf looked over at the elderly wizard and nodded. He turned to Buffy and told her the portkey was ready. Buffy nodded and using the mental link that Willow had created so that Harry, Ginny, Ron and Hermione could communicate telepathically with the Scoobies, she told everyone it was time to head back since they were going to be staying in The Leaky Cauldron for a few days till the start of term on September First.