harry potter - Did the trio (and others) go back to finish at Hogwarts?

Harry, Ron and Hermione skip school in the final book to hunt down the Horcruxes.

And 1999 is the year Hermione supposedly graduates from Hogwarts, but the article has no citation and doesn't mention Ron or Harry returning.

Do they or anyone else from the Battle of Hogwarts return to finish that year? I'm looking for canon sources here, or even better Word of Author.

Answer

Harry and Ron did not return to Hogwarts after Voldemort's defeat. Hermione did and she completed her N.E.W.T.s.

SU: Oh, (MA:Well, did...) speaking of Ron and Hermione-
JKR: Yeah, did they graduate from Hogwarts?
SU: Yes. Did they?
JKR: Harry and Ron didn't go back. Hermione did.
SU: (gasps) Ooo!
MA:Oh my-
JKR: Did you bet right? I mean, come on, nobody's going to think Hermione wouldn't go back.
SU: I predicted. Yeah.
JKR: Of course she'd go back. She has to get her N.E.W.T.s. Ron was really done with schooling (laughs). I think that (SU: Yeah.) it would be kind of tempting to go back just to mess around for a year and have a break, but he goes (JN: Yeah.) into the Auror Department. He's needed. Anyone who was in that battle the right side. Kingsley would want them to help clean up the- I mean anyone who's old enough to do it, who's over age (JN: Hm.), but Kinglsey would have wanted Ron, Neville, Harry, and they would've all gone, and they would've all done the job. And I think that would've been a good thing for them too, because to go through that battle, and them be relegated to the sidelines, I think they would've felt a need to keep going, and finish the job. So that would've have been rounding up the corrupt people who were doing a Lucius Malfoy, and trying to pretend that they really weren't involved.
_{[J.K. Rowling Interview with The Leaky Cauldron - 12.23.07]}

And there is the author's word :)

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