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Chapter 21. Found

Ariel came into her room through one of the secret passageways, without the invisibility cloak on, and walked into the living room and froze at the site that in front of her. A million thoughts rushed through her head but she didn't have any time to sort them out before the red headed girl she knew as Amanda turned to her and said, " Samantha?"

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Lily, James, and Harry had explained what happened at the Ministry and they were now discussing what to do, since Hermione had convinced the teachers to let them have the rest of the day off, while eating lunch.

"We could go to Hogsmeade. After lunch get Amanda and her mum then go for the rest of that day," Kirsten suggested.

"Yeah, Hogsmeade!" Harry said. Everyone agreed that after lunch they would get Amanda and her mum and then go to Hogsmeade. They finished eating and then James lead the way to the secret entrance that led to the pink room as everyone was calling it.

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Ariel froze unsure as what to do. How does she know it's me? The description Jessica and Brian gave doesn't match what I look like now.

"Are you the girl that Jessica and Brian Lane are looking for?" Amanda asked though she knew she was the girl they were looking for even if the description Jessica and Brian gave didn't match what the girl in front of her looked like.

Ariel stayed silent. Maybe she'll think I'm deaf or mute.

"Can you hear me? Are you deaf?" Amanda said and then she signed her question having learned sign language when she was younger.

Dang, she knows sign language!! Now what am I supposed to do?

"Will you please talk? Just tell me your name. Samantha isn't you name is it? At least not your first name. Ariel is your first name and Samantha is your middle name and Jessica and Brian just don't know it, right?"

Ariel nodded numbly. "How do you know all that?" she asked her curiosity getting the better of her.

"That's my secret. Remember I said I can keep a secret."

"How did you find me?"

"I didn't. I didn't know this where you where staying. I needed a place to talk to my mum and James lead us here. I had no idea that this where you were staying," Amanda said. "Will you come with me to Lily and James? Please, you can wear the invisibility cloak. No one will see you. Jessica and Brian are still in the school but they can't see you with the invisibility cloak on, please come."

"I-" she was going to say more but closed her mouth abruptly when someone came into the room. She looked at the people around her suddenly feeling trapped. 

"Lily, James remember the girl that Brian and Jessica were looking for? Well… umm… this is her."

Lily and James stared at Amanda then looked at the girl standing in front of them. "Are you sure? She doesn't match the description the they gave us," Lily said.

"I'm sure. The description they gave us was wrong and her first name isn't even Samantha it's Ariel and Jessica and Brian aren't her parents. They're not related to her at all," Amanda said speaking for Ariel since the girl was as pale as a ghost and was looking around they room in fear. "What are you going to do with me?" Ariel asked looking cautiously at them.

"I don't know. Well for starters it would be nice for you to tell us how you got here and why," Lily said gently.

Ariel was slowly getting over her silence. When things like this happened she was either silent or yelled at everyone. Instinct was starting to kick in and she was slowly moving toward her bedroom where there was a secret passageway that she hadn't explored yet. "Well I suspect it would be nice, in your opinion, if I told you what happened but I have no intention of doing that," she said icily. The man with the black hair and glasses stepped forward, and instinct kicked in and stepped back while pulling out her wand and shouted, "Stupefy!" stunning him. She made to run for the bedroom but found herself stuck to the floor and was trapped. The red headed woman, Lily she though her name was, was reviving the black haired man and he got up and stood beside her. Even if Ariel was stuck to the floor didn't mean that she was helpless. She still had fists and her wand.

"Don't come near me!" she yelled as Lily had started to move forward. "Come near me and I'll hit you. I'm not afraid to. I know a lot of curses and hexes to and I won't hesitate to do it. I've had to before and I'll do it again if I have to," she yelled at them

Lily took a step back. She composed herself before saying, "All right I won't come near you, promise. We're not going to hurt you, I promise. Will you please answer some questions for me?"

Ariel looked at her strangely. Her instinct was saying the not to trust these people and to tell the woman that she wasn't going to answer any question but she heard herself say, "Yes, I'll some of your questions."

Lily nodded and smiled relieved that they were now getting somewhere. "All right, if Jessica and Brian aren't your parents who are?"

"My parents are dead. They died in a plane crash."

"Oh, I'm sorry. Are Jessica and Brian related to you at all?"

"No."

"How do you know them?"

Ariel was silent. She really didn't want to answer that question. She didn't want to go into the details of how she had. What would they think when she said that she had met them in the mental institution that her parents had put her in? They won't believe a word I say after I tell them that.

"I'm not answering that question. I didn't say that I would answer all of your questions, just some of them," Ariel said icily.

"All right. Where did you go after your parent's deaths? Wasn't there a relative that you could have stayed with?" Lily asked.

"No, all my relatives are dead. I left the crash site before anyone could notice me. I walked from town to town sleeping outside mostly. I would sometimes sleep inside if some couple or person took pity on me but I only stayed one night and left before they got up leaving a note saying that I had left. I found a passageway to this school and have been staying here for about the past month. I'm not answering any more questions," Ariel said. "Now you know some about me, happy? What are you going to do with me now?" she asked.

"Well I suppose we should tell Jessica and Brian that we found you and-"

Ariel cut her off saying, "I'm not going with Jessica and Brian and nothing you can say or do will change my mind. I would rather die then go with them."

Everyone was silent surprised at what she said. Ariel took advantage of the silence to try to figure out how to get out. The spell that was holding her there was starting to weaken and she figured that if she yanked hard enough she could get unstuck and run into the bedroom and into the secret passageway before they realized what happened.

Lily interrupted her thoughts saying, "Why don't you want to go with Jessica and Brian?"

"They're bad people. And they're Death Eaters. That Umbride woman here is also a Death Eater," Ariel said stunning them into silence for a second time. She tugging very lightly at the spell holding her and was almost lose when she suddenly felt it strength and she couldn't move. She looked at the people standing in front of her and her eyes met the eyes of a boy who looked like the man with black hair and glasses except that he was smaller and had green eyes like Lily. She glared at him realizing that he was the one who had her under the spell.

"They're Death Eaters? Jessica and Brian? Dolores Umbridge is a Death Eater?" Lily half asked half stated.

Ariel nodded still mad at the green-eyed boy who was holding her there with the spell. "They've always been loyal to him. My parents were while they were alive also."

"Ariel, you need to come with us to Professor Dumbledore and tell him what you know. You can come willingly or we will force you to. We won't let Jessica or Brian come near you, I promise but we need you to tell him what you know. He can make sure that Jessica and Brian are punished for what they have done. Umbridge too. Whatever they have done to you we will make sure that are punished for it. Are you going to follow us willingly or are we going to have to force you?"

Ariel considered what she had said. She could bring Jessica and Brian to justice? They would be punished for what they had done. She considered fighting them but decided to follow willingly the though of Jessica and Brian being punished was too good to resist.

"I'll come willingly. I want to Jessica and Brian to be punished for that they have done," she heard herself say. It was like she was in a dream. Nothing felt real; nothing was as it should be. She couldn't believe that Jessica and Brian might finally get what they deserve. She couldn't believe that she had told them, complete strangers to her, everything that she had. For some reason she believed that they would protect her. She was going against all of what she had taught herself to survive on the streets and to keep people from knowing too much about her. She didn't understand any of it. She was letting someone help her and guide her. She had opened up and told more that she had ever told anybody before and it puzzled, and scared her, that she had opened up to complete strangers.

She found herself in a room with a high circular ceiling with pictures of old wizards on the wall with an old man with a long white beard sitting behind a wood desk. The man looked up as they entered peering at the through his half moon spectacles.

"Lily, James, everyone, what can I do for you?" he asked leaning forward on his desk looking intently at them as they sat down in the chairs that were already in front of his desk and the ones he had conjured up for them.

"Albus, we found Samantha, well really Ariel, the girl Jessica and Brian were looking for," Lily said and the started to explain what had happened in the Pink Room telling all about Jessica and Brian and Umbridge being Death Eaters and everything else Ariel had told them. Everyone was quite while she was explaining. When she had finished the man with the half moon spectacles looked at Ariel said, "I am relieved that we finally found you and are you sure that Jessica, Brian, and Umbridge are Death Eaters?"

Ariel nodded. "Before my parents died they took me to the first meeting after he came back and she was there and she talked about applying for the job of Defense Against the Dark Arts job here so she could help make a plan for him to attack when he was stronger," she said. Everyone in the room paled at those words.

"Well I must leave you now and go get Jessica, Brian, and Umbridge and take them to the jail I have set up and let the people there question them under a truth potion. Stay here until I get back and then we will discuss where Ariel will be staying," he said and then bid them good-bye before leaving the room.

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a/n short sorry but if I don't get out today probably wont till like Monday or Tuesday next week. So Ariel is found. So she was put in a mental hospital wonder why? I don't know guess. Ive got things planned that will none of will see coming. Tons of twists coming that I actually have planned for once!!

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