The Quibbler is a magazine with a fairly open mind. Its readers are thought of as slightly erratic and the editor Xenophilius Lovegood a little strange but it could be that they have just opened their minds to the possibility of other things, other possibilities. This was less of an interview but merely a discussion that I had with Mr Lovegood when I was at Bill and Fleur’s Wedding on the 1st August 1997. To give you a bit of information, we were all fairly upset about the death of Professor Dumbledore and well, needless to say, I wasn’t innocent. I was dating George Weasley at the time.

LUNA LOVEGOOD: Hi Louisa, my father wanted to ask you… oh I troubled you… I’m sorry.

LOUISA SNAPE: No, it’s ok Luna. What did he want to ask me?

LUNA LOVEGOOD: Are you sure it’s a good time? You seem to be covered in something.

LOUISA SNAPE: Nargles I expect.

LUNA LOVEGOOD: No, it’s different, maybe daddy will know.

MR LOVEGOOD: Hello Louisa, Lovely to meet you.

LOUISA SNAPE: Really?

LUNA LOVEGOOD: Don’t be hard on yourself Louisa.

LOUISA SNAPE: Well everyone seems to be avoiding me these days.

MR LOVEGOOD: Ah well, yes, so you don’t mind answering some questions?

LOUISA SNAPE: Not at all.

We sat down at a table slightly further away from the main dance and music area.

MR LOVEGOOD: You seem to have an interesting aura about you Miss Snape.

LOUISA SNAPE: Probably tired Sir.

LUNA LOVEGOOD: didn’t I tell you daddy? Louisa is a metamorphmagus.

MR LOVEGOOD: Really? How wonderfully rare. Who passed that to you?

LOUISA SNAPE: Actually Luna, I’m a transfigurist.

LUNA LOVEGOOD: Oh, I’ve never heard of that.

LOUISA SNAPE: It just means I transfigure myself and the world around me.

LUNA LOVEGOOD: That’s amazing. Perhaps that is the aura.

LOUISA SNAPE: I doubt you wanted to ask me that though.

MR LOVEGOOD: Luna tells me that you resided over the funeral of Albus Dumbledore.

LOUISA SNAPE: Yes, it was his wish.

MR LOVEGOOD: And you didn’t feel uncomfortable?

LOUISA SNAPE: Of course, I did but it was his wish.

MR LOVEGOOD: But in the knowledge that your uncle and guardian killed him?

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LUNA LOVEGOOD: Why did he ask you?

LOUISA SNAPE: It was asked in allegiance with the woodland elves.

MR LOVEGOOD: Woodland Elves? My what an honour!

LUNA LOVEGOOD: What do you mean?

MR LOVEGOOD: To be bestowed that sort of honour from a woodland elf is quite remarkable. I don’t know much
about them. It is said they walk around us seemingly unknown. Those that have the blood of woodland elves are said to have strong powers. But he asked you?

LOUISA SNAPE: Yes Sir, in his will.

LUNA LOVEGOOD: Do you know the woodland elves Louisa?

LOUISA SNAPE: Yes, they helped me when I was ill. I see them… occasionally.

MR LOVEGOOD: What are they like? I’ve heard so many things…

LOUISA SNAPE: Just like me Sir.

GEORGE WEASLEY: Dance?

LOUISA SNAPE: Excuse me.

Luna gave me a copy of the article a while later and although it had its flaws it did had truth to it. At the time the Daily Prophet had been taken over by my father so really nothing in it was all that accurate. It read:
Mr Lovegood managed to get an exclusive interview with Miss L. Snape (I didn’t have the heart to tell him it wasn’t exclusive). Miss Snape, who has contacts with the Woodland Elves was able to fulfil Albus Dumbledore’s last request of his Head Girl and be buried by them at Hogwarts. The death has brought her much turmoil and she grieves, as we all do at the loss of our beloved Headmaster. We, at the Quibbler wish her the best of luck when she joins the Aurors training programme.

Apparently, there were many owls about my so-called contacts with the elves and that it wasn’t a proper elven funeral… bla bla bla.