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Lady of the Lake 
Gwen was right. Any name in there would be helpful. Though the fact that her dad was a Muggle just complicated things. She wouldn't find him by looking the name up in any book or yearbook in the library. What did Muggles use to track people down, anyway? 'Did you find any other names in here? Like your parents'? They were very good friends at the time, so it made sense that Ava should mention them in her diary.
Ul? 'You're thinking something like Ulric?' Ari chuckled. 'Don't forget he's a Muggle. They don't tend to have such original names like in the Wizarding world.' As far as Ariadne was concerned, they could rule out that possibility. The Gryffindor nodded when Gwen excluded other two cases. They were definitely on to something now!
Llo. And the fourth letter could be a G, a P or a Y, whereas the last could be D, M, V. Ari focused on all the possible combinations for a while, but she eventually deciphered it. 'Any chance it could be Lloyd?' she asked the Ravenclaw.
Just as she was starting to feel proud of her achievement, Gwendolyn had finished de-coding the whole last name. In the same time that she had figured out two letters. Nothing to see here, then. 'Gallagher. Lloyd Gallagher.' the fifth year repeated. This could actually be it! Now only if she had access to a Muggle library. Or better yet, the thing they called ...InterNets? 'D'you think a visit to the Muggle Studies Professor is in order?' Or was there another way forward?
Gwen continued to examine the piece of parchment but as soon as she heard her bestie say something, she raised her eyes, looking back at the Gryffindor.
‘Yes, my mother’s name was on the first page’, she said with a small nod.
‘That, if I deciphered the code correctly’, the fifth year went on talking.
But back to the name they were trying to figure out.
‘Right’, the Ravenclaw mumbled, as she heard Ari tell her muggles didn’t have such original names. Well… for a person who couldn’t even understand how people could live without magic for more than three days, that came out as unexpected news. Mehh. So Ulric is out of question.
While her bestie was working on the first name, Gwendolyn tried to figure out what the last sequence of numbers meant.
Hmm. Lloyd Gallagher.
‘There you have it’, she mused, drawing her attention back to Ariadne. She waited for some sort of a reaction from the Gryffindor, but all she got was another question.
Errr. ‘Isn’t it a bit odd to ask a Professor to help you out track down a person?’ Just asking.
‘I don’t want to be pessimistic…’ Guess what- she was.
‘…but I don’t think it’s the best decision. What if she asks why it is so important to find this Lloyd Gallagher? Anyway, if you want to try it this way…’ She didn’t support this idea, because Gwen knew hat she herself was a lousy liar. And yes. She wanted to go with Ari, even if it was just for moral support. She did want to help her bestie until she’ll manage to find her dad.
‘Or, maybe it would be better to ask someone who has lived in the muggle world until coming to Hogwarts’ A student. Those people had to know a lot about the ways of finding people without using spells.
‘It’s up to you’, Gwen concluded.