That same morning at Bones Manor, Ameila was reduced to tears as she read Rita's lies about her in the Daily Prophet.

"Ameila, what's wrong?" asked Xenophilius with concern in his voice.

"That Rita Skeeter bitch is spreading lies about me," sobbed Ameila, handing the newspaper to Xenophilius.

"I'm sorry, Amelia," said Xenophilius quietly, "Please understand that I know that you would never do such a thing and that I trust you 1000%."

"Thank you for saying that, Xenophilius, " said Amelia gratefully, "But then again, you would never have made me Luna's godmother if you didn't trust me."

"Quite true," nodded Xenophilius, "And you wouldn't have made me Susan's godfather if you didn't trust me too."

"Exactly, " said Amelia fiercely, "But Rita has gone too far this time."

"Are you going to do something about her?" inquired Xenophilius.

"I really hope that Arthur will fire her from her job at the Daily Prophet, " said Amelia firmly, "And I'm going to grill her ass to see how she found out the facts she had to lay the foundation for her lies. Rita Skeeter is going to RUE the day she tried to make me out to be a heartless murderer who wanted to cause a teenage girl grief."

"Oh, Rita's not going to know what's hit her," smirked Xenophilius.

"I'm going to get to the bottom of this," snarled Amelia, "If it turns out that Rita was using ANY illegal methods to obtain the facts, she needed to spread her lies, she will serve time in Azkaban. Period."

Next nanosecond, Amelia disapparated from Bones Manor and arrived in her office at the Ministry of Magic to find Arthur waiting for her with Rita there with him in handcuffs.

"Well, Arthur," smiled Amelia, "It looks like you've been proactive this morning.'

"First," said Arthur firmly, "Rita Skeeter has been fired from her job as a Daily Prophet reporter. I now hand her over to you. Do as you see fit with her."

"I'm going to give her some Veritaserum and get to the bottom of this," said Ameila fiercely.

Ameila dragged Rita to a Ministry Holding Cell and retrieved her wand from her right hand pocket with her right hand.

Pointing it directly at Rita, Ameila cried, "Stupefy."

The nanosecond Rita was stunned, Ameila pulled a bottle of Veritaserum out of her left hand pocket with her left hand and forced three drops of it down Rita's throat."

Unstunning Rita, Ameila asked her, "What's your name?"

"Rita Skeeter, " replied Rita simply.

"During the time you wrote for the Daily Prophet, how often did you write lies?"

"Most of my articles were lies with foundations in a few basic facts," spilled Rita, "Sensationalism sells and the business of business is to make money. The more papers the Daily Prophet sold, the more I got paid."

"You wrote a lie about me where you made me out to be a heartless murderer who wanted to cause a teenage girl grief. But, how did you know that the Lovegoods house was destroyed and how did you know Xenophilius and Luna moved in with me."

"I overheard Susan and Luna talking about it with their friends in the Lily Potter Hall at breakfast one morning," confessed Rita carelessly.

"How were you able to eavesdrop on them without their knowledge?" Ameila grilled Rita.

"I can turn into a beetle," revealed Rita, "I am an unregistered animagus."

"That's all I need to hear," finished Ameila, who now returned the Veritaserum to her pocket and took out the antidote. After stunning Rita again and feeding her three drops off the antidote to Veritaserum, Ameila unstunned Rita again and told her:

"Rita Skeeter," Ameila told Rita coldly, "You are under arrest on multiple counts of libel. I intend to recommend several punishments for you at your trial. These punishments will include a lifetime ban on writing, a one thousand galleon fine for unscrupulous use of an unregistered animagus form, and ten years in Azkaban with no possibility of having your sentence commuted. Because of the circumstances of your firing, Arthur will be able to fire you with cause and you will not be paid the rest of your contract. I strongly suspect that my recommendations have a very high probability of being implemented."

"But" begged Rita, "I've got to make a living you see. Readers want juicy stories-"

"You have no honor or integrity whatsoever and I have no respect for you and no sympathy for you. Did you honestly expect me to feel sorry for you after you made out that I'm a murderer who wanted to cause a teenage girl grief."

"You've got to understand-" whined Rita.

"You need to understand that you stabbed yourself with your own sword, " Ameila snapped at Rita in a frosty voice, "You've been uncovered because this time the lie you told was too obviously false."

"Go to hell, Bones," snarled Rita bitterly.

"You're the one that deserves to hell," retorted Ameila, "Ruining people's reputation for the sake of marketing is highly dishonorable."

"Give me another chance," pleaded Rita.

"You've had too many chances already," spat Amelia coldly, "Arthur didn't like or trust you when he became Minister of Magic, but he was willing to give you a chance to see if your morals and work improved. They instead went the other way and Arthur and I know it's time for you to go now. Remember that you cannot disapparate out of a Ministry Holding Cell without dying. You shall remain in here until such time as your trial can be scheduled."

At that, Amellia walked out of the Ministry Holding Cell and locked its door as she left.

Rita was captured and cornered and had no way out. She was going to face consequences for her actions.

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