Arietta's Story

by SwiftAuditore

I am your ordinary woman when I found myself reincarnated as the main character of Harry Potter. She is stuck with the dursleys until she finds a way to get away from them for good and is adopted by her other uncle. How will the wizarding world cope with a savior who is not going to be pushed around?

2. Chapter 2 On the road to recovery

SwiftAuditore: Hey swifters and welcome back to Arietta's Story. I am being careful not to turn my character into a Mary-Sue or another character into a Mary-Sue/Garry-Sue. If I am on my way to doing that let me know. Oh by the way there will be Dumbledore bashing, evil Dumbledore and Gray Tom Marvolo Riddle. Regarding my welcome to the underground fanfiction I have a question for those of you who have read the chapters I have currently up could you swifters please give me some theories on how to deal with Chara to stop the resets. I'm having trouble coming up with theories and I can't continue the next chapter until I have so I would appreciate the help.

Swift: I also want to thank RebeliousOne for the help with parts of this chapter. I appreciate all the help.

Disclaimer: I don't own any characters or anything from Harry Potter they belong to J. and I don't own any characters or anything from Transformers they belong to Hasbro

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Chapter 2 On the road to recovery

I jolt up from another nightmare I look at the clock it says it is 7:10 am knowing I wasn't going to sleep anymore I get out of bed and I make my way over to the window and I sit down on it. It seems to be almost too much a dream come true to be real but it is, I'm glad I am finally away from the Dursleys. Speaking of how was I able to hold back that involuntary flinch when I was touched by Ron? It could have been that I didn't want to show any weakness in front of them.

I have no idea how long I have spent sitting at the window lost in thought and I must have drifted off for a bit when I feel a hand on my shoulder and I flinch involuntarily I look away from the window to see Ron standing in front of me. "Hi Uncle Ron" I greet

"How long have you been sitting here?" Ron asks

"I woke up from a nightmare couldn't fall back asleep sat here and I don't know got lost in thought must have dozed off after a bit" I answer

"Well breakfast is going to be ready in a few minutes so come down to the living room soon" Ron voices and leaves the room and I change clothes with the only other pair I have I need to get more clothes I make my way downstairs into the living room once I have finished getting dressed.

"Hey arietta I'm Sam it's lovely to meet you in person" Sam greets me

"It nice to meet you in person as well" I greet with a smile a woman comes into the room.

"Hello Arietta my name is Judy, it's nice to meet you" She introduces

"It's lovely to meet you as well" I say with a smile

"Well breakfast is ready and once breakfast is finished we are taking Sam to school and we are going to get you more clothes, tomorrow we will enrol you at the school Sam goes to" Judy exclaims

Meanwhile with Dumbledore

Dumbledore is just returning to his office from the ministry after attending an ICW conference which lasted couple of days irritated from all the squabbling between the politicians at the meeting. The last thing he expected and needed coming back is to find his office in shambles causing Dumbledore to stand at the entrance to his office in shock not believing his eyes at first standing there staring at all the destruction of his office but when he takes a closer look that he realizes that his office is in shambles.

Upon closer inspection he notices that every trinket that was destroyed was the ones that were attached to Arietta Potter and there are none that could be repaired. "What happened? Where is that blasted Potter? I need to talk to Figg" he murmured to himself before moving to the fireplace to floo to Figg's house.

Stepping out of the fireplace at Figg's house Dumbledore turns to face Figg "Where is Arietta Potter?" Dumbledore demands flatly with a glare.

"Arietta is with the Dursleys she's in the cupboard in the Dursleys house" Mrs Figg replies

"Have you noticed anyone visiting the Dursleys recently?" Dumbledore questions

"I haven't noticed anyone visiting the Dursleys recently" Mrs Figg responds and Dumbledore storms out of the house which scared Figg as she knows Dumbledore's true face and not the façade he shows around most people. Dumbledore made his way to Four Privet Drive to question Petunia on where Arietta Potter is. Dumbledore reaches the front door just as Petunia opens it and stands there in shock for a few seconds not expecting to see Dumbledore.

"Where is Arietta Potter?" Dumbledore demands patience starting to run thin

"Arietta isn't here she is by far freakier than Lily ever was she is gone from my normal life and good riddance to the freak" Petunia answers Dumbledore starts going through Petunia's memories at a fast pace making note to go through them in more detail later storing copies of Petunia's memories in his mind he found out that Petunia's half-brother Ron is the one who took Arietta from Four Privet Drive. Once done getting copies of Petunia's memories of Arietta he storms off heading to his office at Hogwarts.

Once in his office he sits down in the chair at his desk and slowly goes through the copies of memories he got from Petunia anger growing with each memory of Petunia's he sees the more angrier he became upon seeing Petunia defying him. Once he finished viewing all the memories he copied from Petunia and just sat still in horrified shock at everything he has seen as he believes that everything he does is fore the greater good until everything fully settled in his mind of what he saw in the memories. He became frustrated and angry with the knowledge that Arietta is nothing like he planned.

He planned for Arietta to be meek and eager for approval from those who are kind to her and not for her not to be independent, headstrong, questioning everything like lily but she's worse than lily what child refuses to be moulded at that age?

Dumbledore pondered what to do about Figg and Petunia he had to do something because they had dared to defy him they had to be punished but how? After pondering for a minute he decided to stop paying Figg and to blacklist her from kneazle breading as for Petunia he will take the notice me not that was keyed into the ward. Dumbledore ponders on what to make sure that they won't kill Arietta when he finds her.

Back with Arietta

After we dropped Sam at school Ron drove us to a mall to get me everything I need the first shop we went to is hot topic where I went a bit overboard on getting tops from my favourite bands which are Kiss, Mötley Crüe, Guns N Roses and Queen. At the next shop the sales girl helped me get various clothes that have rock chick vibes.

We went into a stationary store where I got all the supplies I need for school some of which are a backpack, erasers, ruler and notebooks. I looked through the stationary store to see if there is anything else I wanted that's not school related from this shop until I see a black leather journal that has a black leather buckle strap going around the middle of the journal, on the corners of the journal are gold corner protectors, The journal has gold lines on the spine of the book as well as on the front and back of the journal, on the front of the journal has a raised border around the middle of the journal, inside the rectangle is a diamond pattern the leather buckle strap is attached to on it is an oval filigree and in it is a large turquoise stone. In the corner of the rectangle pattern is gold decorative pieces. I decided to go with the journal so I picked it up and I look over the pen I want to use to write in it. After going through the various pens on offer I settle on a high quality black in rollerball pen which is black with gold decoration around the pen.

We are now in the last shop we are going into today which is a music shop I went through the music players and I settled on a Steepletone five in one music system which includes records and CDs. After going through the records I chose a few from Mötley Crüe, Queen, Kiss, and Guns n Roses. I am now near the back of the store going through the CDs I've found a few Kiss, guns n roses, black Sabbath, AC/DC and Led Zeppelin CDs. I am looking for two more CDs and I will be done when I see a man who has a passing resemblance to Vernon in the corner of my eye and for a moment I freeze I look at my hands feeling that I am holding two more CDs than I did before and I look at the CDs and I see that they are both Motley Crue CDs. After paying for everything we leave the music shop and start making our way to leave the exit.

We are just walking into the food court when we notice that there is no one else in the food court so we stop and look around trying to work out what is going on when we notice a woman with midnight black hair that goes to her shoulders wearing a robe like suit.

"Hello my name is Bonita Sanders I'm from the department of mundane relations and I've come to inform you about your niece having magic" she introduces herself

"Hi Bonita my name is Arietta Potter and I already know about having magic, when uncle Ron got custody of me from my other relatives uncle Ron took me to Gringotts and had an inheritance test done and it revealed that Dumbledore blocked a lot of my magic and put several compulsions on me" I voice which seems to shock Bonita as she blinks in shock while waiting for Bonita to process what I told her I take a look at aunt Judy to see her reaction on magic being real I see her freeze in shock for a few seconds before turning to uncle Ron saying "You knew about this?"

"From what you've told me it would be a wise idea to change your name from Potter as well as to change your name today for your own protection. Do you all have time to come with me and change your name today?" Bonita requests

"We have time, we can go now" Uncle Ron voices

"Before we go do you have any privacy spells for the journal I got?" I ask Bonita

"I do know a privacy spell for a journal would you like a privacy spell on your journal?" Bonita answers

"Yes please" I voice and I get out my journal and Bonita places a privacy spell on the journal and once she is done I put the journal back in the bag.

"You head home I'll meet you there I need to go prepare some things" she says removing the ward and walking away. We headed home after that and everything I got was put away in my room.

Uncle Ron had just retrieved the inheritance test results when a man with short brown hair comes into the living room after being let in from the front door by Judy.

"Hello my name is Raoul Catalani I'm going to be helping you as Bonita wasn't qualified to help you. Do you have any proof of what you said about Dumbledore as without proof we can't help hide you from Dumbledore as he is important worldwide?" He introduced himself and Uncle Ron gave the results of my inheritance test to Raoul who looks at it. I watch as Raoul's face goes slack, his mouth is slightly open, colour is draining from his face as he stares wide-eyed at the results muttering "I can't believe that Dumbledore was able to fool the world for so many years" under his breath but loud enough for me to hear.

"Now let's discuss how far you are willing to go to hide her. Would you be willing to change her name?" Raoul asks after Judy left to go pick up Sam from school.

"I am willing to change my name but I need to think about what I want my first and middle name to be" I answer and I think about what I want to change my name to and after a while I come up with what I want to change my name to.

"So what will you change your name to?" Raoul asks

"I will change my name to Marisol Arietta Witwicky" I answer and Raoul gives us some papers to fill out to change my name and Uncle Ron and I filled in the papers and we have just handed the papers to Raoul when Judy comes into the room with Sam. After Raoul asks if Sam has done accidental magic and when it was confirmed.

"When it comes to magical schooling ordinarily I would suggest a magic school but due to the fact we will be hiding you from Dumbledore it is best that you receive home schooling where the teachers will come to you. The core subjects Arietta and Sam will have to do is Transfiguration, Charms, Potions, and History of magic, defence against the dark arts, Astronomy, Herbology, Ancient Runes, and Arithmacy. Now with transfiguration, charms, defence against the dark arts, herbology, ancient runes, and arithmacy will be theory only. The elective you can choose from are Creative arts and literature, music, and technomancy there are other electives that will be offered later for when you are older. You can choose two of the electives. What electives do you and Sam want to do?" Raoul explains Sam and I think about what elective we want to do and after a few minutes of thinking we have decided what electives we want to do.

"I choose creative arts and literature and technomancy" I voice

"I choose music and technomancy" Sam voices

"With that decided, what time does their mundane schooling end?" Raoul asks

"It ends at 3:35pm" Uncle Ron answers

"Ok and what time do you usually get back from picking them up from school?" Raoul inquires

"We usually get back at 3:50pm" Aunt Judy replies

"The teachers for their magic schooling will start at 3:52pm and will last for two hours and end at 5:52pm" Raoul voices and Judy writes down the start time and the end time. "With that sorted out we will also give Arietta basic spy training so she is able to protect herself should Dumbledore find her and get her it's only for her protection that we are going to do this" Raoul voices noticing that Uncle Ron and Judy don't look happy at that. We spent the next few hours setting up a schedule for our magic schooling. I'm determined to learn as much as possible Sam and I went to bed after that as it is our bedtime.

Next morning I get dressed and I went to my bedroom and got my journal out intending on writing an entry in it as it is Saturday today. Below is what I have written for my journal entry.

Saturday 17th June 1995

It seems almost unreal that I'm finally away from the Dursleys but I'm glad that it has happened I wonder did the teachers at my old school set up the pen pal program to find a way to get out of the abusive situation with the Dursleys? Oh well I'll never know now.

It was horrible living with them they tried to make me every chore around the house they could think of cleaning, ironing, cooking, DIY jobs around the house, gardening are just a few of the chores they would try and get me to do but I refused to do them I did some gardening but not as much as they would like they would try to starve me by locking me in the closet under the stairs but that failed as I learned how to pick the lock on the door and I snuck out and got food to eat from the fridge when they tried other punishments I started making myself more agile to avoid what other punishments one being beaten. The thought of my previous life helped me to keep my sense of self which helped to prevent the Dursleys from destroying my sense of self.

I did everything I could think of to get away from them two being telling the police about the abuse and shouting in the neighbourhood about the abuse the Dursleys did to me but nothing worked but the pen pal program the teachers started. I'm sure that they were aware of what the Dursleys were doing to me it seems like the pen pal program was their way of helping me to get away from the Dursleys. All the time I was with the Dursleys it felt like I was a prisoner of war not like a child living in a home, I know that you should never feel like a POW in a house but being with the Dursleys was that bad.

I wonder if Dumbledore was the reason why I was with the Dursleys in the first place? Did he also pay the Dursleys to abuse me and if he did why? And my guess is that he wanted me to be manipulatable and to be loyal to Dumbledore because he showed kindness to me. If he's put so many blocks, spells, and potions to me what has he done to other people in Magical Britain? Was Mrs Figg paid to keep an eye on me for Dumbledore? It would make sense if he wanted the abuse to get worse for me with the Dursleys.

I will focus my attention on my magical education more than the mundane education especially on the basic spy training as it will be a way to protect myself from Dumbledore.

I will stop this journal entry there I think that it is enough I've written about the Dursleys as I wanted to and I diverged a bit on my last paragraph but I feel better lighter after writing about my experience with the Dursleys I have taken a step in healing from the damage the Dursleys did to me.

Marisol Arietta Witwicky

SwiftAuditore: Well this is it for this chapter, please let me know what you think about it and I will see you in the next chapter.