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Dahlia's Magic	By : lexiatel Category: Harry Potter AU/AR > General Views: 8802 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: Disclaimer: Harry Potter belongs to Jk Rowling, I do not make any profit in writing this story what so ever, I am just having some fun.

Chapter List
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- 18
- 19
A/N: Major changes from canon in this scene :) And a glimpse on what goes on inside Dahlia's head.
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Misha_Black: Aww, aren't you just a wonderful fan! Thank you so much! :) I just am still amazed at how many people have thought this story was worth their time :)
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Chapter 18-
"Harry!" Draco held his arm out to keep the boy from running towards the Troll and the girls. "Don't get yourself killed!"
"Confuse him!" Harry said frantically. He tossed a discarded faucet toward the wall, causing a clatter.
Draco's eyes widened as the Troll turned on them. "Uh... that was a brilliant idea... Har-Harry..." he stuttered. "Now what are we going to do, you idiot?!" Draco took out his wand.
"The stunning spell!" Ron also took out his wand.
Draco nodded, a look of terror on his face. "To-Together..." he whispered, eyes frozen on the troll. He screamed as the troll swung his club at him, ducking just in time. "Oh, Merlin...! I am going to die...!"
"Stupify!" Harry and Ron cast the stunning spell on the troll, who only scratched his head.
"Draco! We need your help!"
"I can't...!" Draco cowered by the demolished sinks. "We're not strong enough!"
"You're as good as Hermione at this spell!" Harry yelled. "And if you don't-" Draco screamed another time as the troll swung his club again and Draco just barely managing an escape, inches from being clobbered. "-we're all going to die!"
"I don't want to die!" Draco shrieked, crawling on his hands and knees toward the girls.
"Help us! Draco!" Harry said after casting another useless stunning spell.
"Oi, Pea brain!" Ron yelled. "Over here!"
"HELP US SAVE THEM!" Harry insisted, watching the troll go after Ron.
Draco stood up, his cold eyes narrowed at the Troll in determination. He took a deep breath. "Together, Harry." His voice was firm but his wand was shaking.
The three boys in unison put their full power into it- "STUPIFY!"
The troll's eyes crossed, and with a loud groan he fell to the ground, burying Ron beneath him.
"RON!" Harry yelled.
"I'm ok-kay." Ron's weak voice returned and he emerged from between the troll's legs. "Well... physically." He shuddered standing up. "Wouldn't wish that onto no body."
"Bloody hell!" Draco sank to his knees, his body trembling. "Is-is she alright?" Draco asked Harry who had bent over Dahlia.
"She's still breathing... I... think she's only passed out." Harry announced.
Hermione was in tears. "If you hadn't come...!"
Something slammed then, making them all jump. Footsteps were coming toward them and Professor McGonagall, Professor Snape, and Professor Quirrell came into view. Professor Quirrell gave a shaky whimper after seeing the troll before taking a seat on a toilet, his hand to his chest.
Professor McGonagall gave each of the boys a look. "What on Earth were you thinking?" She asked shrillily. "Seeking out the troll?! You could have been killed!"
Professor Snape's eyes fell unto Dahlia before he swept quickly to her.
"Oh, dear heavens!" now it was Professor McGonagall's turn to clench her chest. "Is she-"
"She's fine." Professor Snape assured her quickly before she could finish. "Miss Dursley's only fainted." He conjured a potion and popped the cork swiftly before trickling it down her throat.
* / *
"You are getting too close to them." The man said disapprovingly.
"I can't... stop that from happening." Dahlia said, shoulders slumped. "I am doing all I can..."
"It's not good enough!" He shouted to her. "You only have two jobs and the important one is to unite them all! You gave me your word that you could do this! The future of our existence lies on this. They must unite or the magic world shall crumble!"
"But not for many years..." Dahlia said quietly.
"And do you think it would be wise to wait until the last minute?!"
"No, sir..."
"Then you best get back to work!" The man hissed.
"Yes, sir..."
* / *
"Not so fast, Miss Dursley." Professor Snape instructed. "Rise slowly."
Dahlia squinted her eyes. "Hermione!" She gasped, suddenly remembering what had happened before she had fainted.
"I'm fine..." Hermione said stepping up to her. "The boys... they saved us."
Dahlia then saw the crowd. "Draco, you too?" She asked when she seen the blond sitting on his knees several feet away from her.
Draco avoided her eyes. "Well..." he coughed uncomfortably.
Professor McGonagall started lecturing them all then, telling them how foolish they had been.
"They were only trying to help us." Dahlia spoke up. "We were in the bathroom."
"And didn't know about the troll-" Hermione added.
"Until it was too late. We heard it, and then saw it in the halls and we got really scared." Dahlia said, giving the best little girl act she could muster up.
"So scared, that Lia fainted." Hermione said mimicking Dahlia perfectly. "And me... I was too frightened to even think." Hermione bowed her head in shame. "It wasn't their fault at all..."
"They were only trying to help their..." Dahlia's eyes shifted between the three boys. "Friends."
"We would have died without them." Hermione said trembling, knowing that that was the truth.
"And it's not like we really wanted to be near this creature in the first place. It could put a dung bomb to the test of the most disgusting things on the planet." Draco added with a sneer to the troll.
Professor Snape cleared his throat coolly and Draco stood up to his feet. "Which of you was the one to stun this beast?"
"Well-" Draco started.
"We did it together, Professor." Harry cut in. "We could not have done it alone. We weren't strong enough for it. But together, we must have had just enough strength. Trolls are just a pinch from being mindless."
"I see..." Professor Snape said. "I am afraid that your father will be alerted of this episode, Mr. Malfoy."
"Yes, sir." Draco's voice was quiet.
"Go easy on him, Severus." Professor McGonagall said with a huff. "How many first years do you know could manage a fight with a mountain troll and live to speak about it?" She earned smiles from the five students. "Be that as it may, you all were very brave and lucky. I will award the boys each five points."
"Malfoy also?" Professor Snape's question was very quiet.
"Of course, Severus! He helped, after all! Now, off to your houses." she said to the first years. "The feast has been resumed in your common rooms."
Out in the hall, before Draco could hurry to his common room, Hermione thanked the boys for their heroism.
"Yeah..." Draco said deep in thought. "I'll be lucky if I am alive by morning once my father hears about this."
"For your lack of thoughtfulness?" Ron asked.
Draco looked down at his shoes. "For saving two mu-ggleborns." He said before hurrying away.
"Must be tough..." Dahlia said, watching him scurrying further away from them. "To grow up under such rotten minded parents."
"No different than what you've grown up with." Harry pointed out.
Dahlia frowned. "Maybe..."
The next morning, Draco, Vincent, and Gregory came by to sit down for breakfast as they did often.
"You're still alive, Draco." Dahlia noticed with a smile.
"Yeah." He replied quietly.
"Oi, Malfoy!" A brunette girl from Hufflepuff came up to them. "Did you really smash a troll's head in?" She asked with wide eyes.
"Huh?" Draco asked.
"Well, that's what Vanice said! You and Potter and Ron Weasley saved two girls from that troll and everything!" She merely glanced at the other boys before smiling adoringly at Draco.
"Yeah, he's a real hero." Dahlia added.
"It's not a common thing for a Slytherin to do, you know!" The girl blushed before skipping off.
Draco scoffed. "Everyone acts so surprised when a Slytherin does something nice!"
"You're all just misunderstood, that's all." Dahlia said softly. "You know, I was almost made a Slytherin."
Vincent and Gregory's mouth dropped in shock, but Draco grunted. "Not surprising at all, really."
"Me too." Harry added.
"Blimey!" Ron gasped. "Same here!"
"Well, I almost became a Ravenclaw." Hermione sat proudly. "But the hat decided Gryffindor in the end."
"Perhaps more Gryffindors could have been Slytherins." Dahlia thought aloud.
"And the other away around." Draco said with a clearing of his throat.
"Aren't you like a Slytherin legacy or something?" Ron asked.
"Yes, so if I had been sorted into Gryffindor I would have been an embarrassment to Father, we can't have that. It's better this way."
"What does he have against Gryffindors?" Harry asked.
Draco shrugged. "Some rivalry thing. Dates back centuries ago. He'd be disappointed to know that I am not hexing your Gryffie arses right now. Probably drop a brick if he knew we ate breakfast together everyday."
Ron snorted out his drink of pumpkin juice, finding Draco's statement hilarious.
Dahlia wrinkled her nose at the mess. "Disgusting..."
* / *
Professor Snape stood over his green brew. "It's taking too long." he muttered.
"You're not being patient enough." Dahlia told him.
"This isn't going to work. It's impossible to get cobra eyes to curdle."
Dahlia rolled her eyes. "I took you for a patient man, Professor."
"Life is shorter as you get older." He grumbled, stirring the brew.
Dahlia leaned over the desk and snatched the stirrer from him. "You know better than to do that, sir." She tilted her head at his odd behavior. "Are you okay?"
Professor Snape crossed his arms with a huff. "Course I am!"
"Well, I am just curious is all. My tips have proven twice so far, I would have thought by the third one, you'd have a bit more faith in them."
"I just don't see how dandelion petals can make snake eyes curdle."
"It's called magic." Dahlia whispered mysteriously.
"Which a lot of it is explainable."
"A lot, but not all of it." Dahlia said. "Look." She pointed to the cauldron; his brew had finally thickened into a black and yellow yogurt looking substance.
Professor Snape's eyes didn't leave the brew until Dahlia held out the stirrer to him several moments later. "It's... remarkable." He whispered, stirring the brew. "Do you realize how long I have been trying to get this to happen?"
"No." Dahlia answered truthfully.
"Since I was thirteen, when my mother first mentioned the snake eye curdling. She said only the best Potion Masters could do it. And since the best known ones- Carivour, Denton, and Bradley, wouldn't share on how to do it, it has been an over priced potion ingredient for nearly a century. The only one living now is Denton, and I hear he's done forgotten the recipe. This information is worth... a fortune in both knowledge and wealth." His eyes finally met hers. "You must have a secret..." he insisted. "a muggleborn with such knowledge is..." he paused, shifting his eyes away. "Well, not entirely unheard of, but rare."
"I won't lie, sir. I have a bucket load of secrets. This isn't my research, though, and I am not taking credit on it whatsoever. It is my information to give out though, as I am the legal owner of it all." Dahlia looked down at her hands. "It's not like I'll make grand use of any of it. And... well, you being a great Potion Master and all, you, of all people, will use it better than anyone I know."
"You could sell this... and make..." he let out a deep sigh. "So much wealth."
"I could." She agreed. "But that's not what I want to do with it."
"What do you want to do with it?"
She smiled at him. "You'll see."
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