Ariana Dumbledore || Harry Potter

03| flamel

As time passed by here at Hogwarts, many eventful things took place. Harry became the seeker for Gryffindor, and his first game was, terrifying. We believed that Snape may have tried to curse Harry's broom since it was going absolutely bonkers.

We also found something far worse than that.

A three headed dog almost murdered all four of us. The massive animal was clearly guarding something, and we were all determined to find out.

We now sit in the common room, discussing our horrific experience. "What do you think it's guarding? Ariana anything your Uncle would want to hide?"

"I have no idea, it could be anything."

"I bet Hagrid knows." Said Harry. "When we when to Gringotts he took something out of a safe, said it was hogwarts business maybe that's what that thing is guarding." Things started to click. "Well there's only one way to find out."

We all rushed to Hagrid. "Nonsense. Why would Snape put a curse on Harry's broom?" Said Hagrid.

"Who knows. Why was he trying to get past that three headed dog on Halloween?" Harry said raising his left eyebrow.

"Who told you about Fluffy?"

"Fluffy?" Said Ron laughing a bit. "That thing has a name?" I said to Hagrid.

"Well, of course he's got a name. He's mine. I bought him off an Irish fellow I met down at the pub last year. Then I lent him to Dumbledore to guard the.."

"Go on." I say looking up at Hagrid.

"Shouldn't have said that. Don't ask any more questions. That's top secret, that is." Hagrid said shaking his head a bit. "But Hagrid, whatever Fluffy's guarding, Snape's trying to steal it!" Said Hermione.

"Codswallop. Professor Snape is a Hogwarts teacher."

"Hogwarts teacher or not, I know a curse when I see one. I've read all about them. You have to keep eye contact, and Snape wasn't blinking." Hermione said crossing her arms. "Exactly" Harry said.

"Now, you listen to me, all four of you. You're meddling in things that ought not to be meddled in. It's dangerous. What that dog is guarding is strictly between Professor Dumbledore and Nicholas Flamel." Said Hagrid pointing his fairly big finger at us.

"Nicholas Flamel?"

"I shouldn't have said that. I should not have said that. I should not have said that." With that Hagrid walked away from us.

"Nicholas Flamel, who's Nicholas Flamel?"

It was soon Christmas break, and everyone was running around packing their belongings.

Hermione walks up to the three of us with a suitcase "I see you've packed." Said Ron looking at her suitcase behind her. "See you haven't." She replied.

"Change of plans. My parents decided to go to Romania to visit my brother, Charlie. He's studying dragons there."

"Good. You can help Harry and Ariana then. They're going to go the library for information on Nicholas Flamel." Ron sighed annoyingly. "We've looked a hundred times!"

"Not in the restricted section, have a Happy Christmas." Says Hermione hopping up from her seat and giving me a hug goodbye and leaving the Great Hall.

"I think we've had a bad influence on her." Whispered Ron to Harry.

Later that night I went to visit Uncle in his study. "Ariana, my dear niece! Come in come in!" I smile at my uncle as he sits at his grand desk.

"Merry Christmas my dear!" He hands me a box. I tear open the cardboard, my face turning into a smile. I look down to see my mother, staring back at me in a photo. She looked beautiful.

Tears started to form, as uncle put his hand on my shoulder. "She loved you very much Ariana, remember that."

"Thank you." I said looking at the picture closely to see her swaying me in her arms back and forth. I left his office and went up to the common room to see Ron and Harry opening presents. "Hey guys!" I said looking up at them to see Harry's head floating.

"It's an invisibility cloak! Extremely rare!" Said Ron with huge eyes.

"What's that?" Said Harry, pointing to the picture in my hands.

"My mom." I said sighing. They both give me sympathetic look and we all sat around the fire, ending off our day with several games of wizards chest.

"Famous fire eaters, 15th Century Fiends, Flamel, Nicholas Flamel. Where are you"? Said Harry holding up the lantern.

Of course Harry just had to find out who Flamel was, and dragged me with him to the restricted section in the library. "Harry are you sure this is a good idea?" I asked looking around frantically.

"Ariana calm down. It's going to be alright."

"What about this book?" I whispered handing him a ratty looking book.

As the book creaked open it began screaming, which made me jump and scream at the top of my lungs. Harry quickly shut the book and slapped his hand over my mouth. "Who's there?" Filch creeped his way over to us.

Harry let go of me and grabbed the cloak, covering us both in it, making the lantern fall to the ground.

"I know you're in there. You can't hide. Who is it? Show yourself!"Harry and I bolt through the corridor, turning the corner to see Professor Quirrell up against the wall, and Snape holding him by the neck.

I quickly looked at Harry to see him as confused as me.

"Severus, I thought." Stuttered Quirrell. "You don't want me as your enemy, Quirrell." Snape sneered at the trembling man. "What do you mean?" Said Quirrell. "You know perfectly well what I mean." Snape turns our way and my eyes grow wide. Harry and I cover both of our mouths as Snape takes a step towards us, but soon looks back to Quirrell.

"We'll have another chat soon, when you've had time to decide where your loyalties lie."

Then Filch appeared with the broken lamp in his hands. "Oh, Professors. I found this, in the Restricted Section. It's still hot. That means there's a student out of bed." They went the opposite direction of us as I let out a sigh of relief.

"Great now we're completely lost." I laughed at his comment. "Do you know who you're with? I know exactly where we are, follow me."

"Over here." I said letting go of his hand as we reached the room. Harry walked over to the large mirror.

"The Mirror of Erised." I said looking into it, my mother appearing at my right side.

"I see my parents!" Said Harry touching the mirror. "I see my mom." I said looking up and smiling up at her. "You see Harry, this mirror shows your deepest, most desperate desires of our hearts. I use to sit in front of this mirror every day, wasting my life away, I promised Uncle Albus I wouldn't come back here, but we had no where else to go or we would of gotten caught. Besides, the mirror is going to a new home tomorrow. Promise me you won't go looking for it, people have gone mad siting in front of this mirror."

He shook his head yes and I smiled at him and took his hand again. "Come on lets go."