Text Cut: Sneaky Ariadne
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Lady of the Lake 
Crowds. As always. Ariadne sighed as she moved slowly, trying to find a compartment. It was impossible to spot anyone through the sea of people, so when she'd had enough, the girl dashed into the first compartment she could find and dropped Pluto's cage on a seat. Only then did she notice the only other occupier.
'Gwendolyn H. Greene!' she said excitedly and hugged her best friend. 'You knew I prefer the back cars.' Ari was impressed. 'And hello there, Jinx.' she greeted Gwen's pet. Luckily she hadn't sat on him.
'I have exciting news! I found my mum's diary from the year before I was born!' the girl said without any introduction. Together with the photo Gwendolyn had found in her parents' album, she now had a few pieces of the puzzle. 'The only problem is that it's in code.' Yes. There had to be a glitch.
'But there must be a reason why my best friend is in Ravenclaw.' Ariadne grinned like the Cheshire Cat. With Gwen's help, she might just be able to track down her real father. 'What do you think of it?' Ari asked her bestie, showing her a random page from the stolen diary.
'Diary aside, what do you think about Jory?' she changed the subject very abruptly and closed the door. Not everyone needed to know their business. 'I like his new haircut.' she added, dreamily, very unlike her usual self.
Since there was no sign of her best friend yet, the fifth year drew her attention away from the door, looking for a moment out the window. Ah. She couldn’t wait to get back to Hogwarts. This year was going to be so much better, now that Ariadne had returned. Of course, OWLs weren’t something she was waiting for, but how good could it feel to be done with those by the end of this year?!
In the next moment, Gwen heard someone call her name. Her
full name. Raising an eyebrow, the fifth year drew her attention away from the window in order to greet her friend properly.
‘Hi Ari’ No doubt it was her bestie… who else would have the slightest hint of what her middle name could be?
Smh. But she wasn’t the only one happy to see the Gryffindor.
‘Meyow’, Jinx looked curiously at the girl before his eyes fell on Pluto. His mate was back.
Exciting news?! Truth be told, Gwendolyn hadn’t expected her friend to ask one of those boring
‘how are you’ questions, but what Ariadne said definitely surprised her.
Blink. Blink. A diary? A coded one? This made Gwen’s eyes go wiiiiiide.
‘Of course!’, she beamed, eagerly waiting for Ari to pass her the diary. She only gave a quick look at the page her bestie showed her, and realized that the maximum number was 9. Interesting… But what was Ari saying? Against her will, Gwendolyn raised her eyes from the interesting diary and looked back at her friend.
‘Heh… thanks’, she showed a smug at her comment about being a Ravenclaw.
‘Well…’ Eh. What did she think of it?
‘First of all- how did you find it?’, she raised an eyebrow at her friend. Not that she woldn’t have searched in the whole house if she were Ari… Besides- she did look through her mother’s old photo albums, so mehhh. She shouldn't be talking.
‘I think I can crack the code!’, the Ravenclaw nodded, examining the page.
‘But it will take some time. I have a few guesses so far…’, she mused, remembering one of the Arithmancy lessons… the one when Hadley brought a box, which would only open if you got the code right. Maybe watching her dad work for a while would finally pay off? Hopefully this wasn’t
THAT complicated.
Sneaky, Ava Marchbanks…
Gwen was practically stuck there, examining the diary. After a while, she decided not to be rude, and listen to what Ari had to say. J
ory? What about him? ‘He’s ummm’ That question was so out of the blue that Gwen was completely oblivious to where Ari was going with this.
‘He’s a good friend’ Maybe Ariadne didn’t even want to know what she thought. Was it just to bring up the subject? Mehhh. Gwendolyn tried to convince herself that this wasn’t that much of a big deal. She glimpsed out the window, but as she heard her Gryffindor friend say something, she immediately looked back at her.
Errrr.
He had a new haircut?
‘I haven’t noticed…’, she started saying, but suddenly stopped. She would get it in…
...3…
...2….
...1… ‘What’s your point?’ Staaaaaare. For once in her life, Gwendolyn couldn’t figure what was going on with her friend. Merlin’s beard. How did they even end up discussing Jory’s haircut?!? Gwen would surely have a reason to be suspicious about it.
Hmph. Jory and his new haircut, she imitated Ariadne with a high pitched voice in her head. What was going on?!