Arielle: The Girl Who Changed

Chapter 26

Two days after the funeral of Headmaster Albus Dumbledore, who now resided in a beautiful white tomb, Arielle was sat in her train compartment with Neville Longbottom, Ginny Weasley, and Luna Lovegood. Arielle observed that over the years Luna and Neville had begun to sit closer to each other in their shared seat and smiled.

After a while of traveling in the train through the countryside Luna drifted off and leaned onto Neville's shoulder. When Arielle saw Luna's eyes were closed, she winked at Neville and gave him a thumbs up. Soon enough Neville had fallen asleep with his arm around Luna and it left Ginny and Arielle alone pretty much, "Ari, can I tell you something?"

"Yeah, anything Gin," Arielle said to her.

She looked out the window of the compartment towards the one that Harry, Ron, and Hermione were in and told Arielle, "Harry and I broke up."

"What? When'd that happen? Why?" Arielle asked shocked.

Ginny then looked out their window and knew that they were getting close to the train station, "It was right after the funeral. He said that he wanted to protect me from...You-Know-Who. He doesn't want me to get hurt or for him to know that I mean something to him so...You-Know-Who can't target me."

Arielle was actually quite upset about the break up so she whispered, "I'm so sorry Ginny..."

"No, no, it's fine. It's for the best," Ginny replied. The two of them talked just to get the subject off of Ginny's mind for the rest of the trip. When the station came into view, Arielle sat up straighter and Ginny could sense her excitement, "You're cute Ari."

"Whaddya mean?" Arielle asked as the great train pulled into the station.

"You just seem so excited to see George again, I find it so cute. I mean the two of you are so cute, did you see how happy the two of you were when you came back home from your date during the Christmas holidays? The whole house can sense how in love the two of you are and it rubs happiness off onto all of us. I really hope one day I'll find someone who makes me feel the way you two feel."

Arielle laughed told her, "You will, and I bet you it'll be someone on this train." She winked and woke up Luna and Neville before making her way off the train in front of Ginny.

The two of them got off the train almost last and walked to where they last saw the other Weasleys standing. Ginny and Arielle pulled their trunks and  their other things like brooms and Arielle's owl cage through the crowd and finally got to where Mrs Weasley, Ron, Fred, George, Bill, and Fleur were. When all of them were in sight Arielle smiled from ear to ear and set her stuff down and walked over to George and hugged him. George hugged her back and didn't let go for a good minute, "I missed you so much, Arielle."

Arielle's voice was muffled in the fabric of George's shirt as she said, "I missed you too George, so much."

"Okay, okay you two, let's get going!" Fred laughed and the whole lot of them made their way to the Burrow.

The next few days went by in a whirlwind, so many things were happening! The most exciting of everything was Nymphadora Tonks and Remus Lupin getting married! Arielle had been someone Tonks went to to talk with about her feelings for Remus and Arielle had always seen that he had feelings for Tonks and knew it was just a matter of time before the two got together. Even though she wasn't there when it happened, Arielle heard the story that after the battle at Hogwarts in the hospital wing when everyone was in there taking care of Bill Weasley who had been attacked by an untransformed werewolf, she told Remus about her feelings for him and now they were getting married!

The wedding was a small one, not many people being invited besides members of the Order and the Weasley family along with Remus and Tonks's families. For the wedding, Arielle was a bridesmaid being close to both Remus and Tonks. It was a happy ceremony that was over quickly just as a precaution and the members of the Order-besides Remus and Tonks-went back to their new headquarters, the Burrow.