After talking a bit more with Aberforth, Ariana and Susan decided to head back and as soon as they were safely back inside the tunnel so they could talk privately, Susan asked, "Can you believe all that? About Aberforth and Albus Dumbledore and then their sister?"
Ariana still felt like she was in a daze as she answered, "I know, it seems all so crazy and yet it feels so true, almost like I actually lived many of those events that Aberforth was describing. In truth even he seems somehow vaguely familiar."
"Do you think its just because he's family or because that girl Ariana looked so much like you?" Susan then asked.
"I think it's more than that, do you think it's possible that I actually am her?" Ariana asked.
"I don't see how that would be possible." Susan replied, "First of all she lived 100 years ago and Aberforth said she died. He was even there to see her die and he really didn't have any reason to lie. Second of all, you've already got a lifetime's worth of memories that she certainly wouldn't have had."
"I suppose you're right, but why do I feel such a strong connection to her then?" Ariana questioned.
"I'm not sure, but maybe it means something else, like you are supposed to learn something about her or something." Susan suggested.
"Maybe..." Ariana agreed reluctantly.
As they started down the tunnel again, she was still lost in thought as she thought about all that she had learned. The only conclusion she could come to however was that her great-grandfather Dumbledore had definitely been lying to her.
"Susan?" Ariana asked.
"Yes." She replied.
"Why do you think Dumbledore lied to me? He never told me about either of his siblings." Ariana asked.
Susan seemed to ponder this for a second and then said, "I'm not really sure, I may not like Dumbledore but he always has a reason, even if it is totally wrong or stupid."
Normally Ariana might have felt some resentment towards her for badmouthing her grandfather, but not right now, not when she was finally forced to admit that Susan might actually be somewhat correct. She wanted to believe that he had a really good reason, but she had absolutely no idea just what that reason could be.
"I really do want to believe he was only trying to look out for me, but I just don't see how." Ariana confessed.
"Personally I think he was being an idiot and whatever he did was highly suspicious, but I also know that he is your grandfather. This is something you need to work out but just how you do that is up to you." Susan replied.
"I'm going to go see him right now." Ariana insisted, "I have to find out."
"He may not be very forthcoming." Susan argued.
"I'm hopeful that he'll at least tell me. He loves me." Ariana said. While she still had learned plenty about him, she felt he still deserved a chance to try and explain himself.
Susan relented and said, "If that is what you think you should do, then go for it."
As soon as they got out of the tunnel, she headed immediately for the Headmaster's Office to talk to him.
She felt an undeniable feeling that she shouldn't go, but she shrugged that feeling off. He was her grandfather, he would never put her in any danger.
Yet as she got to the entrance, the huge statue blocking the way failed to move when she gave the password, meaning that he wasn't there or at least denying company.
Still, she didn't want to wait that long and decided to get inside anyway. If he had only just stepped out for a few minutes then she would wait for him. While she had never been in his office without him being present, she found the enchantments he'd placed on the statue easily enough, which she removed in order to allow the stairs open up.
After doing so, she knew there were a few more security spells he had placed, but she removed those as well.
It surprised her that she actually knew all of those spells and how to break through them, but she was still grateful that she did.
Finally she managed to get inside the office which was vacant.
She was just about to decide how long she should try and wait for him, when she spotted Dumbledore's phoenix Fawkes.
Having never actually seen Fawkes before, she was in awe of just how beautiful he was. He, like Aberforth, seemed vaguely familiar even if there didn't seem to be any reason for it.
Still, she remembered what Aberforth had said about him, that he had once been Dumbledore's sister Ariana's until he had become Dumbledore's for some unknown reason.
She went over to him and said, "Hello Fawkes."
Fawkes stared back at her with curiosity on his face and she just couldn't resist putting her hand on his head.
Yet when she did a shock rushed through her body as an intense feeling of pain passed through her body, as well as recognition.
She felt like Fawkes vaguely recognized her as well, but wasn't able to really say why because of this intense pain he was feeling.
"What's hurting you Fawkes?" Ariana asked.
Then she put her hand back on his head and again felt that feeling of pain, yet as she kept her hand on him, she searched for the source. There appeared to be some sort of spell or something on him, although she really wasn't sure what. It was a magic even she did not know.
However she decided to do her best to try and solve the problem.
She had been taught how to do Legilimency and was really quite good at it, but she wasn't sure if it would work on animals.
Still she felt she had to try.
Fawkes made no move to try and stop her as she raised her wand at him and she sensed that if it had been anyone other than her he definitely would have had a problem with this, but something inside of him was allowing him to trust her.
"Legilimens." She shouted.
As she tried to get inside his mind, she realized that Fawkes' mind was different from a humans but still very intelligent.
However she encountered a block on him that was entirely human in origin.
She struggled to move past it, but it was incredibly complex and difficult, stronger than she would have believed possible even for a human which meant it could only have been done by Dumbledore himself.
It was an incredibly tasking experience to break through, but she still kept working at it until finally she managed to break through.
Yet instead of finding a ton of memories, she found absolutely nothing, just a void amount of space.
While Fawkes was an animal, this should definitely not be the case, it was like Fawkes didn't even have any memories or any real conscious.
As she searched harder however, she came across yet another block, even stronger than the first one.
It took her probably several minutes of constantly struggling but she managed to break through that one as well but was not prepared for what she saw.
Images of her! Memories of her and Fawkes as she cried in pain and agony as Fawkes sang to her and calmed her down.
She realized however that they weren't actually memories of her but of the original Ariana, yet as they began to flood into her brain, they just felt so familiar; like she had lived them herself.
As she went through these memories, it seemed that that Ariana seemed to be gradually getting better. At first she seemed totally out of it like a completely insane person but slowly she seemed to be improving. She seemed happier and was even starting to go outside and play as well as have short conversations with a young Aberforth.
All of these memories were from Fawkes' point of view, but she could still feel that pain and agony that Ariana had gone through.
It seemed that she was getting better and even seemed somewhat normal until one day who could only be a young version of her great-grandfather as well as a young man about his same age only long blond hair entered Ariana's bedroom one day while she slept as Fawkes perched above her. Somehow she recognized the young man to be Grindelwald.
So far this whole experience of viewing memories had only reinforced what Aberforth had said about his brother to be true as much as she didn't want to believe it.
She struggled to make this memory stronger as she viewed it.
"Magnificent." Grindelwald said.
"Indeed," Dumbledore agreed, "we can use the phoenix to achieve our plans and with it we can finally do what none have ever accomplished before, conquer death."
"The world will be ours Dumbledore, ours to rule. It is our destiny to lead as the only ones capable of truly making the world what it needs to be." Grindelwald replied.
"Indeed." Dumbledore repeated. "The world needs us. Without us, they are like babies, constantly in need of care. Muggles will be our servants, led by those loyal only to us, all world leaders will be either killed or replaced, it is the only way... all for the Greater Good."
She winced as she heard that uttered by him as she had heard the older version of him utter so many times before only she had thought that it was a good thing, now after hearing it be spoken of world domination and making Muggles into servants for wizards, she knew she could never feel the same way about it again.
Dumbledore had more than lied to her, he was absolutely nothing like she had once thought. Aberforth had been right.
Perhaps he had changed a great deal since that time, but what she next learned, completely and permanently convinced her otherwise.
"We'll need my sister as well if we want to take the phoenix with us." Dumbledore informed Grindelwald.
"If we must, although I don't like taking an insane invalid." Grindelwald reluctantly agreed.
"I'm not sure if Fawkes will listen to us though, he only listens to Ariana." Dumbledore replied.
Even now she could tell that Fawkes was certainly unhappy as he looked at them as they stood at the doorway even as they watched Ariana sleep.
"We might need to somehow take control of the phoenix and force it to do what we want/" Grindelwald argued.
"I've already tried that," Dumbledore said, "his connection to Ariana is too strong. Only she controls it."
"What would we need to do to break it?" Grindelwald asked.
"Without killing her, nothing." Dumbledore said.
"If we have to, for the Greater Good if she won't cooperate, be willing to kill her?" Grindelwald asked.
Dumbledore paused for a long moment before slowly saying, "Yes. For the greater good, if need be, we will kill her."
"Let's take her with us and see if she cooperates first." Grindelwald said, evidently pleased that Dumbledore would be willing to kill his own sister for the cause.
Dumbledore walked inside of Ariana's bedroom and went over to her, only for Fawkes to immediately start squawking.
He ignored the bird and tried to shake her awake.
"Come on Ariana, it's time for us to go." He told her.
"Go where?" Aberforth asked as he walked inside the room past Grindelwald.
"We're taking Ariana with us." Dumbledore replied to him.
"You're not taking her anywhere. She isn't well enough to travel, nor should she have any part in your schemes." Aberforth answered.
Dumbledore looked entirely taken aback.
"You probably didn't even realize that I figured out what you two were up to. You thought you were so smart, whispering to each other thinking that your idiot brother couldn't hear. Your arrogance will be the death of you, mark my words Albus." Aberforth argued.
"How dare you speak to us like that!" Grindelwald yelled, "Crucio!"
Aberforth immediately fell onto the ground writhing in pain as he screamed.
Still Grindelwald kept his wand still pointed at him as he grinned maliciously.
Dumbledore made no move to stop it until he decided it was enough punishment.
"That's enough Grindelwald." Dumbledore replied.
"Oh I hardly think that's enough, did you hear what he just said?" Grindelwald asked.
"I said that's enough." Dumbledore answered, pulling out his own wand.
"Do you really intend to fight me?" Grindelwald asked, laughing.
In response, Dumbledore cast a spell at him, which Grindelwald dodged, simultaneously breaking the Cruciatus Curse he had on Aberforth.
There followed an intense but quick duel between Dumbledore and Aberforth against Grindelwald.
Finally however Ariana, seeing the fighting, tried to stop it by jumping into the fray.
"No Ariana, stay back!" Aberforth yelled.
At that moment, Grindelwald hit Aberforth with a spell that knocked him out.
Dumbledore took advantage of this by yelling, "Avada Kedavra!"
The spell was headed right for Grindelwald, but instead of dodge it, he pulled Ariana directly into its path.
It hit her, causing her to immediately collapse to the ground.
Dumbledore ran over to check her pulse, only to discover that there was none.
"She's dead!" Dumbledore declared.
"It was your spell that killed her." Grindelwald reminded him, "do not let her death be for nothing. We can still use her phoenix and achieve our plans."
Enraged, Dumbledore yelled, "I no longer want anything to do with you. Now get out of my sight before I kill you!"
Grindelwald looked upset but finally said, "I'll allow you time to cool off. In time, you'll see reason and I'll be ready to welcome you back when you do."
He Apparated out, leaving Dumbledore with the still unconscious Aberforth, and the body of Ariana. Fawkes swooped down as he began to sing a song of mourning at the loss of his master and friend.
Suddenly Dumbledore looked up at Fawkes and listened to his singing for a second before coldly pulling his wand and pointing it at the bird.
Fawkes managed to dodge the first couple spells he cast at him, but he got clipped by the third as Dumbledore relentlessly cast spells at him as the bird squawked in pain.
"I may not have Ariana anymore, but at least I have you and we'll accomplish my plans without Grindelwald, even if it takes me 100 years!" Dumbledore insisted.
She could sense that Fawkes was steadily weakening and losing consciousness, his thoughts of sadness at the loss of Ariana and his loyalty to her slowly disappearing as an empty void of consciousness filled his mind.
Suddenly there was darkness and then there was nothing more.
While she struggled to find more, that appeared to be all there was, no memories past this point other than the void she found inside his mind.
Finally she was forced to withdraw as she was already exhausted, at the point of fainting from the exertion of maintaining being inside his mind.
After getting out of it, she panted breathlessly as she thought about all that she had learned.
Her grandfather was a liar and the worst type of person she could ever imagine. He was a monster and it was fairly obvious he hadn't changed.
She couldn't tell just what kind of spell he was using on Fawkes, but she knew that he was still using him for evil purposes against his will.
It appeared everything she had thought about him was a lie and she could no longer deny that.
While she wanted to scream at him for what he had done, something told her that he would kill her just as he had agreed to kill the original Ariana to Grindelwald. He hadn't intended to kill her when he had, but it didn't matter, if he thought it was for the Greater Good, she knew that he would kill her as well.
Finally, she reactivated his security spells and ran down the stairs. While she had wanted to take Fawkes, he definitely would suspect something was up if she did. She would have to find a way to rescue Fawkes, but that time wasn't now.
Instead she ran straight to her room to find Susan.
When she found her, she wrapped her arms around her and hugged her tightly as she began to cry.
Susan only just hugged her back and allowed her to cry it out.
Finally after she had managed to regain her composure, she explained just what she had seen, while Susan listened intently without interruption.
"He's a monster!" Ariana said emphatically after she had finished.
"It's okay, plenty of other people, including me, have been fooled by him." Susan said, "The good news is you know the truth now."
"He's going to try to take over the earth somehow, I just know it." Ariana replied.
"I doubt he could ever manage it. He's only one man and while people respect him, I highly doubt they'd aid him in world conquest." Susan claimed.
"He'll do it somehow," Ariana answered, "if there is one thing I know about him, he never gives up when he sets his mind on something, even if it takes awhile."
They continued to talk until Ariana decided to admit something else to Susan.
"He sent me to spy on you, that's the only reason I'm even here at school." Ariana confessed.
"I can't believe it, he sent you to spy on us!" Susan exclaimed in alarm.
"That was before I got to know all of you. I promise I never actually gave him anything about you." Ariana answered.
"I'm grateful for your honesty, I suppose I should have known. We at least suspected you of being a spy." Susan declared.
"You did?" Ariana asked.
"You just seemed to stick out too much and there was a lot about you we really couldn't explain. I tried to give you the benefit of the doubt however." Susan said.
"You had every right to suspect me," Ariana claimed, "I'm so sorry..."
"It's okay," Susan answered, "to be honest we've actually been spying on him. We think he suspects but he just can't figure out how."
"He's told me the same." Ariana told her.
"You do realize I'm going to have to tell the others about this?" Susan reminded her.
Ariana sighed and said, "I know, but I also want to be there to tell them."
"I believe that can be arranged." Susan agreed.
When Harry and the other girls got back, Ariana and Susan explained to them all everything they had learned.
They were understandably shocked but thankfully none of them seemed to blame Ariana or get mad at her as they had feared.
"Well we've always known Dumbledore was a complete jerk, this only reinforces it." Su claimed.
"It also means that we have an even greater need to find out what he's up to." Tonks answered.
"Do you think that there might be a way that we can use anything to get him in trouble with the law somehow?" Gabrielle asked.
"Unfortunately not." Susan said, "I've already thought of that, but the thing is we don't have anything really concrete. We have no proof he tried to take over the world, him killing the original Ariana was first of all an accident and he and Grindelwald were the only eyewitnesses and I highly doubt his testimony would be believed considering Dumbledore was the one to put him in prison in the first place."
"What about Fawkes?" Pansy asked.
"I hate the idea of Fawkes being still under some spell against his will but I don't really know how to free him." Ariana responded, "No offense but it took me all of my strength and superior Legilimency skills to even break that deep into Fawkes' mind. Even if we were to somehow get a warrant to check Fawkes over, I guarantee you, Dumbledore would only tighten security on Fawkes' mind before we could. I'd likely never get in again."
"We've just got to get him on something." Tonks said, "I suppose it is really my fault, perhaps if I had worked harder at spying on him..."
"Wait a minute," Ariana asked, "you're the one spying on him?"
"I think Ariana deserves to hear it too." Susan told Tonks, "She's more than proved she's on our side now. Besides we could really use her. We really haven't gotten anywhere on our own and Ariana could be a big help."
Tonks paused for a moment and then reluctantly agreed. "Very well." She immediately changed into her original form, causing Ariana to jump back in surprise.
"I'm actually an Auror assigned to spy on Dumbledore." Tonks said.
After explaining, Ariana immediately offered to help.
"I'm already close to him, so maybe I could learn some things about him, while I feed him false information about all of you?" Ariana said.
"You could also feed him real information that we just don't care about so that he doesn't suspect anything." Tonks suggested.
"We'll catch him, don't you worry." Susan agreed.
"I'm taking him out before the end of the school year." Tonks claimed.
"Is that a goal?" Harry asked.
"That's a promise." Tonks promised.
DUELDUELDUEL
The next day Ariana went to go give information to Dumbledore while Susan explained to her Aunt Amelia what was going on using Harry's magic mirror.
Amelia listened intently to her every word, interjecting to ask a few questions until Susan had finished. "Are you sure that this Ariana can be trusted?" She finally asked.
"She swore an unbreakable vow after we explained everything to everyone, and I believe her to be totally genuine." Susan confessed.
"Then I'll just have to trust your judgment and hers." her Aunt said, "Let me know if you need anything."
"I will." Susan agreed, "What about you? Do you need anything? How is the pregnancy coming along?"
Her aunt had gotten pregnant several months ago. As it was her first pregnancy she hadn't been entirely sure what to expect but Narcissa had been there to help her with it and she had been sure that everything would be okay, that is until she had learned she would be having triplets.
Magical triplets were extremely rare, and it was said that it meant that they would be incredibly power.
However Amelia wasn't too happy that it had happened to her as she was already getting huge.
She joked however that she was merely catching up with Narcissa, who had once again gotten pregnant herself again not long after, fortunately with just one.
"It's fine, although I'm already starting to feel like a whale." Amelia commented, "Not that Sirius minds, he just can't get over how big are breasts have gotten and he's always wanted a big family, although I think this might be it for me. I'd probably have had only 1 otherwise."
"We're going to have a big family no matter what even if we did only have 1 or 2." Susan replied.
"I'd imagine so." her Aunt answered.
After chatting a bit as Amelia described what to expect while pregnant, Susan decided to bring up something else.
"There's something else you should probably know but you have to promise not to freak out." Susan admitted, somewhat nervously.
"What is it Susan? You know you can tell me anything," Amelia replied.
"Well there's something more about Ariana. Please don't get mad, but we've kind of been experimenting a bit together. I'm not really sure if I really do like girls or not, but I kind of want to find out. All we've done is kiss so far though." Susan confessed.
"Why would I be mad?" Amelia asked.
"I don't know, I just didn't want you to think badly of me for it." Susan answered.
"I could never think badly of you for that. You're still young and some experimentation isn't too surprising. I even did some of my own when I was your age." Amelia replied.
"You did?" Susan asked in shock.
"One of my friends and I kissed a few times, just to see if we liked it." Amelia said, "Yet just after that I started dating Sirius, so it never really progressed beyond that."
"Well Harry knows about it, and is okay with it in case you were worried about that, and I know that I'll always want to be with him." Susan said.
"I know. I've seen the way you look at each other." Amelia said, "However, if you or some of the other girls decide that you like each other too then that would be fine as well with me."
"I'm glad that you're always so understanding, I couldn't ask for a better aunt." Susan told her.
"I couldn't ask for a better niece." Amelia responded.
After finishing her talk with her, Susan handed the mirror over to Tonks so that she could give her own personal report.
She noticed Harry standing there and she said as seductively as possible, "You know, I think I deserve a little reward."
He grinned and said, "Exactly what reward did you have in mind?"
"I think you know," She replied.
They both hurried into his bedroom and they began undressing.
"Hold on I want to try something different," Susan suggested, "use legilimency on me."
He did so and she let him see just what she was thinking at that moment: Just how attractive she found him and just what she wanted him to do to her.
His strong lean muscles, his finely chiseled features that appeared to be carved from marble by the perfect sculptor, his bum, his huge cock that she still couldn't resist staring at, everything.
When it came to what she wanted him to do, she wanted her body ravished with his mouth, lips, and skilful tongue including her most intimate of places.
A rush of anticipation for it already entering her mind.
Following her mental instructions, he began kissing her lips, at first slowly and softly, and then raking his tongue along them in circles.
Finally he pushed his way in between her lips as he sought entrance inside of her mouth.
Opening it just enough, he slid in as he began to French kiss her, only faster and more forceful.
Her elation at the sensation shot up as she enjoyed the feeling of his lips and tongue upon her.
However, he then withdrew as he slowly began to trail kisses down her body, just enough to leave her wanting more in each area.
Down her neck, he paused to gently breathe into her ear while gently pushing back the lock of hair that had escaped from behind her.
He paused to gather up her long beautiful red hair and display it on either side of her, making her somehow feel like a goddess as her lustrous hair framed much of her body.
She could tell that he wanted her, a look of need clear upon his face as he ravished her body, trailing his kisses further down at her collarbone before gently laying several kisses upon her large breasts.
She arched her back in further anticipation for him to continue the assault upon her two hills, but instead he moved down to her belly, which only jutted out ever so slightly, practically flat especially from the sharp contrast that her two breasts jutted so far out.
He licked her belly button in slow circles, causing her to imagine how this would feel when he got to her true hole just below it.
She was not disappointed as he found her snatch and kissed, licked, then sucked it.
A huge gasp came from her as she orgasmed right there, something Harry was entirely aware of as he tasted and savored her newly expelled juices, sucking or licking them up with his tongue.
"Ooh," She couldn't help moan.
While she could have easily been content to have him continue on this forever, he was not done.
Returning to moving down her body, he got her inner thighs, which for some reason always got her going.
By the time he got down to her feet, she was already in heaven but to make things only better he got to her feet and kissed and sucked each of her little toes.
Grateful that her feet had been washed thoroughly recently, he savored the taste of each one, which felt surprisingly good to her as well.
By now he had moved entirely off of the mental script to speak of what she wanted, but he was doing fine all on his own.
He finally moved up to where she always liked him to end: her breasts.
While some large breasted girls complained or disliked their boobs, she absolutely loved them and wasn't afraid to show them off either. As Tonks had put it, breasts like hers should be proudly displayed not attempt to hide their true size.
When it came to size, she had just graduated to a 32F, a size that would be unbelievable to most people, but which she considered smaller than she wanted to ultimately have.
Her now F cup breasts made her feel special and beautiful and while Harry might have been able to focus on the total package when it came to girls, when it came to just the relationship she and he had, he was unquestionably a boob man.
It gave her a certain thrill to watch him unable to avoid staring whenever she displayed her cleavage or when she bared them naked before him as she was now.
At the moment, all he was doing was staring, causing her to swell with satisfaction at getting his attention.
She even arched her back forward to make them appear even more prominent.
"I love your breasts Susan," Harry claimed.
Having done this enough times by now, he knew that she enjoyed it when he said stuff like this.
Moving down he began to kiss them starting at the edges and moving his way inward.
"I love your...(kiss)...big...(kiss)...beautiful...(kiss). ..boobs," He told her.
When he got to her left nipple, he teased it with his lips and gently bit on it with exactly the right amount of force.
It could have been an entire half hour he spent on her breasts alone and she finally said, "You've already been so good to me Harry. I think it's your turn."
"I'm already having so much fun on you though," Harry claimed.
"This will be for both of us," Susan replied.
She'd been wanting to try this out for awhile now but this was the first time actually doing it.
After she got him to position himself just right where he was practically on top of her, she grasped his large cock, resisting the urge to handle it simply with her hands and instead nestled it into her cleavage.
Pushing both of her boobs together so that they pushed against either side of his cock, she had him shove and rub against them.
Glancing down at the wonderful expression on his face, it turned her on so much to know that her boobs were doing that to him.
A moan escaped from his lips and she grinned, "You enjoying this Harry?"
"Ooooh yeah," He agreed.
As already turned on as he already had been, he did not last long as he shot out cum, all over her neck and face, some of which she lapped up with her tongue.
It tasted delicious and gave her ideas for something else she planned to do once she felt Harry would be more comfortable.
"I love you Susan," Harry told her.
"Yeah you do," She agreed.
He gave her a look, and she finally said, "I love you too Harry."
DUELDUELDUEL
Meanwhile Dumbledore was already planning to go forward with the next step in his plan. Not so much Lily, but instead his own first secret clone: Barty Crouch.
He had finally managed to perfect his system and it should remove any autonomy or ability to object to anything he asked. All clones from here on out would be totally and irreversibly loyal to him. It may require a bit of additional tweaking but he was confident that it would ultimately be successful. He wasn't Albus Dumbledore for nothing.