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"Professor Dumbledore! Come quickly!" cried Professor Flitwick in a shrill voice running into the headmaster's office.
"What is it?" said Dumbledore standing up quickly.
"There's a girl lying on the door step of the castle!!! We don't think she's a witch so she might have just seen the castle as a dilapidated old building and stayed there for the night. We have no clue how she got through the gates though." Said Flitwick walking out of the office and running down the hall.
"There was a blizzard last night! Is she alive?" said Dumbledore following quickly behind the tiny professor.
"Yes, but barely." He said running faster still.
Soon they reached the huge castle door. They opened it up and stepped outside. Sure enough there was a girl lying on the doorstep. She was covered with a deep blue cloak that was almost entirely covered with snow. There was snow caked in her dark waving hair that was strewn about her face, which was deathly pale and cold, and her lips were blue with freezing chill. She was visibly shaking with the cold.
"We must get her to the hospital wing." Said Dumbledore picking her up off the ground.
When they arrived in the hospital wing other teachers were already gathered. The girl was immediately laid on a bed.
"We need to wake her up." Said Dumbledore pulling out his wand.
"Do we really need to Dumbledore? She's not of our kind; she'll be terribly scared! Let's let her warm up and rest a bit first." Said Madam Pomfrey concernedly.
"We must, I need to know who she is. She is dressed too strangely to be a muggle."
At that moment everyone present realized what the girl was wearing. Under the cloak she wore the strangest clothes any of them had seen before. She was dressed in brown travel worn pants, a strange brown shirt, on one hand there was a fingerless leather glove sewn with silver thread, and at her waist was a long sheath that held a great sword.
"Enervate." said Dumbledore putting his wand to the girl's chest. The girl immediately stirred. She was trying to speak or shout out in fear but was too deathly cold and shivering too violently. Madam Pomfrey poured a beaker full of honey colored hot liquid into her mouth and she immediately stopped shivering. She took a moment to get her bearings and look quickly around the room but she did not look scared. Instead her hands flew to her neck and as she did so her eyes grew wide and she looked desperately around her.
"My necklace!!!!" she cried in a frightened voice. Dumbledore smiled and held up a fine silver chain with an odd silver pendant. She snatched it from him quickly and without a word.
"It was found beside you in the snow."
"It must have fallen off." She muttered clutching it tightly to her chest for a moment before clipping it around her neck with its small silver clasp.
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Reformatted: 9/17/04