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|name=''HARRY POTTER SPEAKS OUT AT LAST: THE TRUTH ABOUT HE-WHO-MUST-NOT-BE-NAMED AND THE NIGHT I SAW HIM RETURN''
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|author=[[Rita Skeeter]]<ref name="OOTP26"/>
|newspaper=''[[The Quibbler]]''<ref name="OOTP26"/>
|date=[[23 March]] [[1996]]<ref name="OOTP26"/>
|photographs=[[Harry Potter]]'s face, "grinning sheepishly"<ref name="OOTP26"/>
|subject=An interview with Harry Potter regarding his account of the [[return of Lord Voldemort]], in contrast to the lies printed by the ''[[Daily Prophet]]''<ref name="OOTP26"/>
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{{Dialogue a-b-a-b-a-b-a|Dolores Umbridge|Why have you got all these letters, Mr Potter?|Harry Potter|People have written to me because I gave an interview. About what happened to me last June.|An interview? What do you mean?|It means that someone asked me questions and I answered them-|When did you do this?|Last Hogsmeade weekend.|There will be no more Hogsmeade trips for you, Mr Potter.|[[Harry Potter]] and [[Dolores Umbridge]] talking about the interview|Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix}}
'''''HARRY POTTER SPEAKS OUT AT LAST: THE TRUTH ABOUT HE-WHO-MUST-NOT-BE-NAMED AND THE NIGHT I SAW HIM RETURN''''' was an article regarding an interview granted to [[Rita Skeeter]] from [[Harry Potter]] on [[14 February]] [[1996]] during a [[Hogsmeade]] weekend. The main topic of the interview was the story that Harry had to tell the world about the [[return of Lord Voldemort]].<ref name="OOTP26">{{OOTP|B|26}}</ref>

==Background==
[[File:300px-DoloresUmbridge.png|150px|thumb|left|[[Dolores Umbridge]], the [[Ministry of Magic]] spy in [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry|Hogwarts]]]]
After the return of Lord Voldemort in [[1995]], both Harry Potter and [[Albus Dumbledore]] were victims of a [[Campaign to discredit Albus Dumbledore and Harry Potter|campaign]] from the [[Ministry of Magic]] to discredit them.<ref name="OOTP5">{{OOTP|B|5}}</ref> The then [[Minister for Magic]], [[Cornelius Fudge]], installed a series of [[Educational Decree]]s for its influence at [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry|Hogwarts]] as he believed that Dumbledore was forming an army with students to overthrow the Ministry.<ref name="OOTP15">{{OOTP|B|15}}</ref><ref name="OOTP17">{{OOTP|B|17}}</ref> For that reason, he named [[Dolores Umbridge]] as a [[Professor]] of [[Defence Against the Dark Arts]], to have a spy in the school, and soon gave her more power and authority, naming her [[Hogwarts High Inquisitor]].<ref name="OOTP15"/> Umbridge, acting on the Minister's orders, denied the return of Lord Voldemort and claimed that [[Cedric Diggory]]'s death, caused by Voldemort, was a 'terrible accident'.<ref name="OOTP12">{{OOTP|B|12}}</ref> She cruelly punished Harry several times, because he wanted everyone in the school and in the wizarding world to know the truth.<ref name="OOTP12"/><ref name="OOTP13">{{OOTP|B|13}}</ref>

{{Quote|As I was saying, you have been informed that a certain Dark wizard is at large once again. ''This is a lie.''<nowiki/>|[[Dolores Umbridge]] in her first [[Defence Against the Dark Arts]]'s lesson for [[Fifth year|fifth-years]]|Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix}}
[[File:Rita skeeter 1.png|150px|thumb|right|[[Rita Skeeter]], author of the interview]]
Knowing that the Ministry would not stop its campaign, [[Hermione Granger]] decided to remove [[Rita Skeeter]] out of her forced retirement on Valentine's Day to make her interview Harry, who came to [[Three Broomsticks Inn|The Three Broomsticks]] after a disastrous date with [[Cho Chang]] in [[Madam Puddifoot's Tea Shop]]. In the interview Harry told everything to Rita, and even gave the names of the [[Death Eaters]] who appeared in [[Little Hangleton graveyard]] before his [[Duel in Little Hangleton|duel]] with [[Tom Riddle|Lord Voldemort]]. Rita said that the ''[[Daily Prophet]]'' would not publish the interview as it was influenced by the Ministry; that was why [[Luna Lovegood]] was with them, so that the interview would be published in the journal of her [[Xenophilius Lovegood|father]], ''[[The Quibbler]]''.<ref name="OOTP25">{{OOTP|B|25}}</ref> When the interview was posted on [[23 March]] [[1996]], Harry received a free copy of ''The Quibbler'' and began to receive [[Owl Postal Service|owl post]] from different wizards and witches, some of whom told him that they believed him, others said that he was mad, and still others said that while they did not think he was crazy, they did not believe in the return of Lord Voldemort.<ref name="OOTP26"/>

[[File:OOTP promo front Harry Potter.jpg|150px|thumb|left|[[Harry Potter]] in his [[fifth year]], the year in which he gave the interview]]
Seeing a commotion in the part of the [[Gryffindor]] table in the [[Great Hall]] where Harry was, Dolores Umbridge went over and learning of the interview, banned future trips to [[Hogsmeade]] for Harry, and shortly thereafter established the [[Educational Decree Number Twenty-Seven|Educational Decree Number 27]], which said that anyone caught in possession of a copy of ''The Quibbler'' would be expelled.<ref name="OOTP26"/>

{{Quote|If she could have done one thing to make absolutely sure that every single person in this school will read your interview, it was banning it!|[[Hermione Granger]]|Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix}}
As Hermione had predicted, the whole school sneakily read the interview, and some, like [[Seamus Finnigan]], mailed it to relatives so they could read it. Due to the boldness of Harry in giving the interview, some teachers such as [[Minerva McGonagall]] and [[Pomona Sprout]] gave him several [[house points]] for easy achievements.<ref name="OOTP26"/>

''The Quibbler'' reprinted the issue due to its success, and then when the Ministry had to accept that Voldemort had returned due to the [[Duel in the Ministry Atrium|duel]] between [[Albus Dumbledore]] and [[Tom Riddle|Lord Voldemort]] in the Ministry after the [[Battle of the Department of Mysteries]], where Voldemort was seen by [[Cornelius Fudge|Fudge]] and a pair of [[Auror]]s, even they seemed to be proud of Harry for speaking out.<ref name="OOTP36">{{OOTP|B|36}}</ref> Xenophilius Lovegood sold the interview to the ''[[Daily Prophet]]'' to pay for a holiday to [[Sweden]] alongside Luna to find the [[Crumple-Horned Snorkack]]. The ''Daily Prophet'' published it as an unpublished interview saying that Harry was "the only innocent voice that never changed its position on the issue when everyone's back was turned".<ref name="OOTP38">{{OOTP|B|38}}</ref>

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