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A Professors Tale

As she said her good bye to Dwayne Hendricks, Ariana knew that she has just said her good bye to the love of her life. Little did she know that when she got the position to be a Professor for Transfiguration at Hogwarts that they would meet again. ( A work in progress)

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Chapter 2 - Twenty Three Years Later

Chapter 2

1st September, 2005

Hundreds of friendly faces staring at me, made me feel nervous. Looking across the great hall, I saw a Hufflepuff girl being thrown with peas by a group of Slytherin girls, luckily a prefect stepped in. It was noisy in here, all the students talking to one another. Professor McGonagall had stepped forward.

"Welcome Students, to a new year at Hogwarts. To all the first years, Welcome! This will be your new home and to returning students, I am very pleased to have you all back. But before we continue, I have a very important announcement." She said as the entire great hall was quiet now. "I would like to introduce your new Transfiguration Professor, as I have taken on the full duty of Head Mistress, She has come all the way from Scandinavia, though she had attended Hogwarts as well. Please give a warm welcome to Professor Ariana GoodWood." She announced as I stood up from my seat and waved at the students, I sat down again and focused on Professor McGonagall.

"If anyone would like to help Professor GoodWood unpack her boxes in her office, please speak to her after the feast. Now, I am sure that most of you have heard that the Death Eater, Miguel Tredoux, has been causing chaos in Hogsmede, and there are sightings that he has been spotted outside the grounds of Hogwarts. So I advise you all, to not leave your common room after curfew." She said in a firm tone.

Miguel Tredoux? He was in my class, I never knew he would become a Death Eater. As professor Mcgonagall ended her speech, the feast had begun. One thing that I can always say, is that Hogwarts never disappoints when it comes to a feast. I looked to my left and then looked to my right, every Professor was chatting to one another, besides me. "Ariana "Invisible" GoodWood" I muttured as I had a bite of my Red Velvet cake.

I walked over to my office as I had a bit of unpacking to do. As I walked through the corridor, it made me think of the years that I had spent here and all the memories. The first person I thought of was Dwayne, as he was "the one who got away". I quickly put the thoughts of him at the back of my mind as I knew I had a much bigger obstacle to get over, a heap of boxes waiting to be unpacked.

I unlocked the door to my office and I was hit with the scent of strawberries and cream, it was lovely. I looked around my office and saw that my boxes were already unpacked and pink scented candles were lit all over my office and a beautiful crystal and moonstone vase filled with Tulips awaited me on my desk. How did they know that Tulips were my favorite flower? I saw there was a card attached to the vase. I grabbed the the card and read it:

Dear Professor Ariana GoodWood

As a warm welcome from the Herbology class and Professor, we decided to unpack your boxes for you. We do believe that you will fit in perfectly and as a welcoming gift we got you the Tulips, though these Tulips are very special as you will find out later on.

Regards

Professor Andrew Logan and the year seven Herbology class

How nice of them I thought to myself, I am not that invisible after all. I spotted that they had left one box titled "Memories", I walked over to the box and started unpacking the the photo frames and my trophies. I came across one photo frame, that I studied. It was a photo of Dwayne and myself standing in front of Hagrids Hut. He was holding me. He sent this as a gift before we lost contact. He had written on the photo:

"I miss you"

I stared at the photo for a while, I knew exactly where I was going to put this photo. Right next to the Tulips on my desk. I sat down in my chair and looked around, this... was my new home, to make new memories.