Pressing on, Amelia fed Rowle three drops of Veritaserum and unstunned him.

"What is your name?" Amelia asked Rowle in a businesslike voice.

"Thorfinn Rowle," answered Rowle simply.

"What brought you to Zonko's today?" Amelia grilled Rowle.

"Dolohov wants to help the Dark Lord return," spilled Rowle, "The idea is that the Dark Lord can return via a Resurrection Potion and that Harry Potter's blood would make him stronger than anyone else's. Dolohov's plan was to capture Harry Potter and take him to the Dark Lord. The Dark Lord would then use Harry Potter's blood to regenerate and dispose of Harry once he had his body back. I supported this plan because I was a happy Death Eater during the time when the Dark Lord reigned supreme."

"What do you mean by happy Death Eater?" inquired Amelia.

"I served the Dark Lord faithfully because he gave me opportunities for cruelty and torture. I killed and tortured muggles just for fun. I was never caught because none of the crime scenes contained any hint of evidence that I had been there. I am gifted at both apparition and nonverbal spells. After I would kill, I would use complex nonverbal spells to erase any trace I had ever been there before disapparating. Any footprints, fingerprints, magical traces, etc. would simply be erased before I left. If I tortured rather than killed, then I would use my Memory Charms to wipe the memories of my victims."

"How often did you kill or torture people during Lord Voldemort's reign?" asked Amelia urgently.

"At least two or three times every week," boasted Rowle with an insane grin.

"Are you anti muggle?" wondered Amelia.

"I am," admitted Rowle, "But for me, the reason I became a Death Eather is because I enjoy cruelty, killing, and torture and the Dark Lord was providing me with opportunities to do those things. I am savoring the new opportunities I will get for cruelty, killing, and torture when the Dark Lord rises again."

"You expect Lord Voldemort to rise again, even after the failure of today?" Amelia asked Rowle to confirm."

"It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when!" declared Rowle passionately, "The Dark Lord is unbeatable in the long run. Even Father Time stands no chance against the Dark Lord!"

"Today's setback hasn't shaken your confidence at all, has it Rowle?" grilled Amelia.

"It's a temporary setback, " said Rowle confidently, his eyes blazing, "If only Potter would have been alone. Oh well, you can't win them all."

"What have you been up to since Lord Voldemort's downfall?" Amelia questioned Rowle.

"Just waiting for him to come back," said Rowle calmly, "Because I was never even legally accused of being a Death Eater, I'm not entombed in Azkaban and will be able to return to the Dark Lord he nanosecond he returns to power."

"I think I've heard what I need to hear," said Amelia wearily, restunning Rowle.

"Rowle doesn't seem to care about ideals or values," observed Harry, "As long as he can kill and torture people, he's happy. "

"I get the feeling," said Hermione thoughtfully, "That Rowle would fire off indiscriminate killing curses just to do it and never mind if even a fellow Death Eater gets killed in the crossfire."

"We had intelligence back in the day that Rowle sometimes got Voldemort very angry because he was careless, " revealed Amelia, "In fact, Voldemort regularly punished Rowle for his carelessness via the Cruciatus Curse. Voldemort feared that he would lose a valuable servant to Rowle's carelessness."

"Then why didn't Voldemort kill Rowle and be done with it?" wondered Ginny.

"Rowle was simply lucky that he never killed anyone Voldemort needed by accident," explained Arthur simply, "I believe Voldemort would indeed have killed him if he had."

"it's really interesting how confident Rowle is that Voldemort will come back to power someday," said Luna dreamily, staring off into space, "Especially when contrasted with the absolute doubt of Yaxley."

"Aunt Amelia," piped up Susan, "There is only one more Death Eater left to interrogate, and I've got a feeling there won't be much to him at all. Why not get on with it."

"The sooner I can get this done the better," agreed Amelia, now feeding Gibbon three drops of Veritaserum and unstunning him.

Gibbon, however, proved to not even need to be interrogated at all.

There were some witches and wizards who had such strong reactions to Veritaserum that they would immediately start spouting off without prompting under its influence and Gibbon proved to one of those people.

"My name is Gibbon Gibbon, " went off Gibbon immediately, "I came to Zonko's today to help Dolohov capture Harry Potter and deliver him to the Dark Lord so that the Dark Lord could use his blood for his Resurrection Potion. I agreed to help because I love danger and adventure. I absolutely love the thrill of laying myself on the line. I'm an adrenaline junkie and I LOVE being involved in near misses. The thrill of danger is so addictive and intoxicating. I'm too young to have been a Death Eater when the Dark Lord was powerful. I'm sure that he'll embrace my service with open arms if he ever does manage to return, which I now see as a fifty-fifty proposition. The Dark Lord will be only too happy to have a Death Eater who actually WANTS the dangerous assignments and since I'm not of particular importance to him, he won't care if I am killed. If I die, he'll just move on to putting the next daredevil into that role. The Dark Lord doesn't really give a damn about anyone except the Dark Lord, and he sees most of his followers as expendable or replaceable. I'm totally cool serving a master that I know doesn't give a shit about me because I know he can provide me with the rush, the excitement, the thrill, the danger, and the adventure that I seek. I have no values, no ideals, no beliefs, no politics, no loyalty, no friends, no enemies. It's all about the thrill, the danger, and the adventure."

Amelia realized that her niece had been right. Gibbon was a simple case, and she didn't need to hear any more so she restunned him.

"You know," piped up Lily with a smirk, "I'm going to make a prediction. Whether Lord Voldemort ever returns or not. I hereby predict that between Rowle's carelessness and cruelty and Gibbon's lust for danger and lack of attentiveness, I am predicting that one day, Gibbon will be accidently killed by an indiscriminate killing curse of Rowle's."

"Ah, Lily Moon the Seer," grinned Harry, actually believing that Lily's prediction would come true one day.

"That wraps up all of Amelia's interviews," said Sirius seriously, "What next?"

"Please wait here, everyone," said Remus, "I'll be back in a few minutes and a few nanoseconds."

Remus left and returned a few minutes and a few nanoseconds later with an empty Cooling Potion bottle that had very obviously been turned into a portkey.

"Amelia and Arthur, you two know what you need to do now, Sirius, please return to Hogwarts and inform the staff of what has happened here today and that I will talk to them later tonight about what has happened here today," piped up Remus clearly.

Once Sirius, Arthur, and Amelia had left, Remus turned to Harry, Hermione, Ginny, Luna, Susan, and Lily.

"Harry, Hermione, Ginny, Luna, Susan, and Lily, " smiled Remus, "The six of you deserve to spend some quiet time together as friends just being friends. Once the six of you take this portkey back to Hogwarts, you will find yourselves in the History of Magic classroom where I have set up something nice for just the six of you."

Harry, Hermione, Ginny, Luna, Susan, and Lily each put a finger on the empty Cooling Potion bottle portkey and within a minute and a nanosecond the six of them found themselves in the History of Magic classroom where one desk had been magically expanded to comfortably accommodate six people. There six chairs at the desk for them to sit at.

There were bowls of vanilla ice cream with rainbow sprinkles on top of the desk at each of the six chairs. Harry, Hermione, Ginny, Luna, Susan, and Lily each took a seat and smiled at each other and gave each other thumbs up signals that plainly meant, "Let's dig in."

Harry, Hermione, Ginny, Luna, Susan, and Lily then happily ate their ice cream, quietly enjoying each other's company and the ice cream.

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