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Hera 
"Ariadne, welcome back," she greeted warmly as the young Gryffindor entered her office. Her eyes had already examined the plant in the girls arms within moments of opening the door. For her?! How fantastic. Take that Truebridge, she got plants too! See! "Thank you, it's lovely!"
"Please take a seat, how've you been?" she asked, setting the plant down in a safe spot by the window. "How was your time abroad?"
The atmosphere in the office felt very friendly, as it did the few other times she'd been here.
'Thank you, Professor. It's wonderful to be back.' Ariadne smiled, watching Bentley find a place for the plant.
'Thank you.' she said, again, when offered a seat. After sitting on a chair and placing her bag at her feet, the girl proceeded to answer the questions.
'I would be lying if I'd say it had been all right. It was so difficult for me to feel like anything other than an outsider there, and it sure didn't help that my knowledge of French is rather limited. Though I really like my mum and stepfather's new place near Toulouse, and I enjoyed visiting France, I have spent most of my time at Beauxbatons, being 'the foreign girl'. Luckily, I managed to convince my mum to let me return to Hogwarts, and I'm living with my grandparents now.' Ooops. Too much information.
'Sorry, Professor. I suppose you weren't expecting that much detail when you asked.' Ari excused herself, blushing. Nice going. Her Head of House had been polite to her, and her response was blabber. But there was more to come, because the reason for her visit was quite an unusual one.
Trying to form coherent sentences in her head, and coming up with nothing of use on how to bring up the topic, Ariadne decided it was better to get straight to the point. Bentley was a busy woman.
'Professor, is there any way I can find out the identity of someone in a photograph, if I don't know anything else about them except that they're Muggle?' Now THAT sounded odd. A bit too straight to the point, perhaps.