Agathokakological (adj) : composed of both good and evil
Hogwarts Years; Philosopher's Stone - Deathly Hallows
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First Year
Chapter Fifthteen
THE SOLEIL FAMILY MOVED FROM FRANCE TO ENGLAND IN 1942, meaning that her grandmother, Helen Urania Soleil, started to attend Hogwarts in her sixth year and was also a Slytherin. According to the records, she had been attending Durmstrang Institute prior to moving to England. On November 3, 1959, she had a daughter whose name was Merope Mercury Soleil. When she looked in the records of Hogwarts student, she found a Merope Mercury Soleil. She attended Hogwarts from 1971–1978 and was unsurprisingly a Slytherin too.
In Greek legends, Helen was named the most beautiful woman of Greece. She was the daughter of Zeus and a mortal named Leda or the goddess Nemesis. Zeus turned into a swan and seduced the said women, and Helen was born, thus being associated with the constellation Cygnus, meaning swan.
Merope was, according to mythology, one of the seven Pleiades, daughters of Atlas and Pleione. She fell in love with a human, Sisyphus, King of Ephyra. He was condemned to roll a large boulder up a hill for eternity as punishment for his deceitfulness. Merope was also a star in the constellation of Taurus. It was also said to be the faintest star, which according to myth was the 'punishment' for marrying a mortal.
Ariadne realized that she, along with her grandmother and mother, was named after women from Greek mythologies who were somehow associated with some constellation. Not to mention that their middle names were associated with planets, and of course their last name meant sun.
Ariadne was associated with the constellation Corona Borealis, Latin for ''northern crown''. Ariadne was the daughter of King Minos of Crete. She fell in love with Theseus and sailed away with him after she helped him, killing her half-brother, the Minotaur. He then abandoned her on an island, where she was found by the god Dionysus. Dionysus married her and gave her a crown as a wedding present. After she died, he flung the crown into the sky, where it became Corona Borealis.
The Soleil family was an ancient pureblood wizard family in France; they used to have branches in Belgium. They were related to many ancient wizard families that had gone extinct by now. One generation of the family had two siblings who were married to each other and had a son. The Soleils were a very old and wealthy family; it is said that a part of the wealth has been taken with the former members of the family to Britain. They took as much as they could take before Gellert Grindelwald reached France.
And like many pureblood wizarding families, they had a family motto, which Ariadne believed was cynical: ''Nous chassons ceux qui nous chassent,'' which in English meant ''We hunt those who hunt us.'
By the looks of it, the men married into the Soleil Family. Her grandfather's name was Émeric Dieudonné, which most likely also was a pureblood family and seemed to be the only heir to the Dieudonné Family.
In a small paragraph, it was written that neither family, no matter how powerful and well respected, lost all their wealth and lives to Gellert Grindelwald and his acolytes. The reasons behind this were unknown.
Ariadne tried to find anything regarding her father but didn't have any luck. He was briefly mentioned as belonging to a family in Britain, but before she could read more, the page was torn out, leaving no clues behind, only the name Evan.
The same day it was finally time for one of her lessons in Occlumency. The first few weeks they'd covered the theory behind the branch of magic and after Professor Snape explained what Ariadne could expect during the lessons.
Today was one of those days. So far, Snape has managed to see memories of her life in the orphanage, she tried not to think too much about her life prior to it. Ariadne knew that he wouldn't speak of those memories to anyone, but she felt herself quite exposed when he managed to enter her mind.
Her ability to do Occlumency seemed to falter the longer she was tutored, it was most likely due to the fact that she never had the need to think about it in the first place. But lately, she had the hang of it, as Snape would use Legilimency from time to time during class as another approach to it. Ariadne thought that it was more than a good idea, as it helped her more than the private lessons did for now.
After a couple of weeks with this, Ariadne proposed to try the private tutoring again and see how it'll go this time. Therefore, she was on her way from the library to Professor Snape's office, and as usual, she started the lessons with a knock on the door.
''Come in.''
''Hello, Professor.''
''Given the last couple of weeks, you have succeeded in blocking your mind more than enough times.''
''Yes, sir. That's why I thought that it would be good to return to these lessons, as I felt like I got the hang of it.''
''Very well. Sit, and we'll begin.'' He said monotonously as he gestured to the chair she usually sat in during our lessons. ''Legilimens!''
Ariadne felt the intrusion, and memories started to flash before her.
It was a young Ariadne finding a snake egg, but quickly shifting to the time the matron, Mrs. Margaret Warburton, entered the muggle police station and Ariadne sticking out my tongue at the man she stole from. Ariadne tried to focus and directed him into another memory. She didn't want him to look at how she lived on the streets and her time at the house outside the village.
But even so, he took advantage of this and pushed deeper and looked for the dark memories of that place. She managed to fend him off, and then a memory she didn't know she had appeared. It was a woman with dark-brown hair, almost black, with gentle green eyes. Ariadne recognized the eyes as one of her own, the woman calling out to her. ''Ariadne.''
It suddenly hit Ariadne, who that woman might be; terrified by the fact, Ariadne successfully forced Snape out of her mind. Her eyes widened, and she tried to catch her breath.
''Very good, Miss Soleil, especially at the end.'' Professor Snape praised her and gave her a glass of water. ''I could feel that you fought. You were quick to direct me away from the memories you didn't want me to see.'' he paused. ''I don't know what happened in the end, but I assume that it wasn't me you wanted to guard the last memory from. Rather from yourself. I'll tell Dumbledore about your progression. And I don't see the need for you to attend lessons each week, I'll cut it down to one and continue my daily attempts to invade your mind whenever I see you during the day or classes.''
Ariadne thanked Professor Snape and left his office. As she walked towards the common room, she wasn't aware of the silence around her, as she was too busy with thinking about that woman from her memory.
