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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.

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A/N: I have written up to 25 chapters now. And the First Year ends on that chapter. Just so you all know :) Also, please note that I have just updated the warnings of this story on the first chapter. So take a look if you care. :)
Review Responses:
Staar: I kinda made Petunia into a mother I actually know in real life...
loisa: Exactly so about the nose! LOL!

Chapter 22-
Christmas morning finally came. Dudley's loud thumping footsteps from his running passed Dahlia's room made her laugh. He had finally woken up at 5:30.
She had been up for the past thirty minutes getting herself ready for the day. While her mother often wanted her in red fancy dresses with white tights and black shoes, but today, Dahlia had decided on a green and white dress to be different from the normal. Christmas was special, after all. After the usual one hundred brush strokes of her hair, she evenly distributed it in half and braided her hair into the perfect braids, tying them with white and green speckled ribbons.
She smiled at her reflection in the mirror. Her red hair and bright green eyes were perfect for the holiday. The green and white outfit added a different touch that she loved. She looked like the angel that the world expected her to be.
"Lia!" Her brother shouted up to her from the foot of the stairs. "Hurry up! We have lots of gifts to open!"
With one last wardrobe check, she hurried down to open her gifts.
"You look lovely, Pumpkin!" Dad said when he had seen her. He and Dudley still in their sleepwear.
Mum was dressed in a solid green dress. Her blond hair tied back with a red tie. She said nothing, even though Dahlia could tell she was disappointed that her little angelic daughter wasn't in her choice of colours.
"Thanks, Daddy." Dahlia said to her father, planting a kiss on his cheek. "Merry Christmas!"
"You too!"
For the next hour, the family opened their gifts. Dudley got a lot of what he had requested; mostly gear to workout with, like dumbbells. He even got new clothes now that he was three sizes smaller. Dahlia hadn't really request for anything, she was given a snow globe with a young girl building a snowman. She had also gotten a silver necklace with a tiny turtle dove charm. She liked this a lot. Dahlia had given Mum a set of new oven mitts, and she had gotten her Dad a personalized case for his 'pen'. Dahlia had also gotten Dudley something he'd like.
"Chocolate?" He chucked after he unwrapped the box.
Dahlia grinned. "Open it up."
The frog jumped out of the box and hopped around the room. Mum shrieked unhappily, tucking her legs up onto the sofa, but Dudley was ecstatic. "Wicked!" He said, trying to catch it, he finally did and bit its head off. "Mmm, that's the best chocolate I have ever tasted!"
"Dudders, that's probably been poisoned!"
"It hasn't, Mum." Dahlia said rolling her eyes, and showing Dudley his new magical trading card.
"It's really mine?" He asked.
"Yep. This is a mermaid named Xavierana. When she was alive, she had saved a ship full of wizards from a terrible storm. Helped them all to shore. Mermaids are not usually so friendly, especially to men. So she was one of a kind."
"Wow... Thanks."
"Harry's friend would trade his soul for that card, by the way. He's missing it. It's a very rare one."
Dudley put it in his wallet. "It's the best gift." He told Dahlia. "Thanks." And he hugged her. "Think you could get me a deck of them fairy cards?" He whispered.
Dahlia laughed. "Maybe next year!"
"Worth a shot." He grinned.
There was a tap at the window then and the family looked to see Hedwig hovering on the outside of the living room window with a package, a small tiny black owl accompanied her.
"Hedgie!" Dudley bolted across the room to open the window.
"No! He will not come into my house!" Mum stood from the sofa.
"Hedwig is a she, Mum." Dudley corrected her and untied the package that the owl had brought.
"Hold on, Dud." Dahlia said approaching her brother. "This is a special package. I can tell by this tag." Dahlia pointed to the purple round tag on the package that Hedwig had brought. She knew from the abundance of owl deliveries at Hogwarts that this was a magical package. "It needs a witch's touch." She informed him, and pinched the thin piece of cardboard. It lit up, quickly flashed a rainbow of colors, before it disappeared with a faint pop. The package then began to enlarge.
"Set it down, and step back." Dahlia instructed Dudley, who obeyed. Mum was absolutely in hysterics, but everyone else watched with interest. The package was about the size of Dahlia before it stopped growing.
"Okay, Dudley, let's open it now." Dahlia said, excited to see what Harry had gotten them.
Together they ripped it apart and found many wizard toys and other trinkets.
"Wizards Chess?" He asked, holding up a Gryffindor themed set.
"Holy wow, Dudley! This is... expensive!" She said, opening the box to reveal the pieces of that were related to Gryffindor. This gave Dahlia an idea. It would be against the rules, but it was only a harmless charm, not enough to get her into trouble with, but it might be what her mother needed.
With the queen tucked inside her hand she charmed the piece to look her Aunt Lily, and using another charm, she bewitched it to say 'Merry Christmas!' followed by a laugh.
"Let me see that!" Mum demanded hoarsely, making her way to them. Her face a pale white.
Dahlia handed Mum the piece that looked like Lily Potter, who Dahlia had a near identical resemblance to.
"She's the Queen." Dudley informed Mum, after looking at a paper with a guide that listed the people and their positions.
"Hey, this gift wasn't from Harry, Dahlia." Dudley said, having had found a letter amongst the pile of things. "The chess set is from a kid named, Draco. Who's Draco?"
Dahlia was curious now and took the letter from her brother.
Dear Lia,

I sent both you and Harry one of these. They are a special limited edition Gryffindor Chess Set. I hired someone to make a theme for every house and I plan on selling them when I return to school. I'll probably make buckets of Galleons with these!
Thanks for everything! I hope you have a Merry Christmas!

-Draco Malfoy
"Wow..." Suddenly the chess set was more special. "This is..." there were no words to express on how happy and surprised she was.
"Who's Draco?" Dad repeated Dudley's question.
Dahlia giggled at Dad's sudden protective nature. "He's Harry's friend. He helped..." she eyed her mother, who was engrossed with the chess piece. "Harry... during that time on Halloween."
Dad nodded. "He must be a charming young man."
"Oh, you have no idea, Daddy." She grinned.
"Blimey!" Dudley gasped. "This owl...!" He had gone speechless, his mouth open a mile wide.
"What's wrong?" Dahlia asked softly.
Dudley couldn't speak, he merely handed Dahlia a yellow piece of parchment, his eyes heavily on the little black owl.
Merry Christmas, Dud! It's your very own owl! We'll take care of it at Hogwarts for you while you're at school. Let me know what you name him!
- Harry
"He did say his gift would make up for his absence." Dahlia told the still gaping Dudley.
"He got him an owl?!" Mum shrieked.
"He's trained and everything." Dahlia said proudly, stroking the shiny ebony feathers.
"I will not have an owl in my house!"
"But Harry has one!" Dudley found his voice. "That's not fair, Mum! All the kids at my school think Harry has the best trained animal, and I want one too!"
Mum bit her lip, a worried look on her face. "What will the neighbors think?"
"Like Dudley's friends at school, they might think it's brilliant that he has a trained owl who can do tricks." Dahlia pointed out. "Owls are not only animals that wizards own. Some Muggles do too."
Dudley nodded eagerly, with hopeful lit up eyes, pleading Mum to allow him to keep it.
"Might even impress the Morgan boy." Dad told Mum craftily.
"Do you think so?" Mum asked.
They all nodded.
Mum sighed. "Okay, but you're cleaning up after it, and it goes to that bloody school with your sister!"
"Thanks Mum!" Dudley hugged Mum excitedly before turning his attention to his new pet. "What should I name him?" He asked Dahlia.
"He's yours." Dahlia told him. "You should name him."
Dudley thought a bit. "How about 'Ciard'?"
"I like it." Dahlia said. "Like the Ciardubhan in your game?"
Dudley nodded.
"It's unique." She complimented.
They spent the rest of the day enjoying the holiday. Dad played chess with them, and Mum even did too, intrigued by a certain chess piece. The whole family wondered how the chess set maker had gotten it to do that, Dahlia playing along.
Later, as they were sitting down writing thank you notes, a third owl came by that day, tapping at the kitchen window. "Another one?" Dudley asked, opening the window for it to swoop in and land on the table, next to Dahlia.
"Hey, you." Dahlia spoke softly. "Who sent you?" She asked it, giving the bird a cracker with cheese that she had been nibbling on, before taking the rolled note from it.
Miss Dursley,

Your request has been made. We are even now. Thanks again for sharing your discoveries with me.
Please keep Nardoc away from your parents while he makes his rest.
Happy Christmas from Professor Severus Snape
"Heh." She mused with a smile. "I am probably the only student that got a letter from this professor." She told her brother. "He's the one that hexed you all when he came by to assist me with getting my school supplies."
Dudley shuddered. "Oh, I remember alright."
"He's softer than he would like everyone to think."
"You think everyone is nice." Dudley muttered as he wrote his letter.
"Ah, but I know he's different." She said, petting the wizard's owl that he had entrusted her with, a wide smile on her face.
* / *
"Look at him go!" Minerva's eyes were wide with excitement. "You have a lot to worry about now, Severus!"
They were outside watching Harry and the Weasley boys racing each other on brooms.
"Be nice to see the Cup in a different set of hands this year." Madam Hooch said with her eyes closely on the first year boys.
"Everyone always makes exceptions for a Potter, don't they?" Severus grumbled, eyes narrowed at the Potter boy who was enjoying his new broom immensely.
"After what he's done for us, why not?" Minerva asked.
"And what he will do for us, Severus." Albus said, coming up behind him. "He is a magnificent flyer, isn't he?"
"Just because he can fly, does not mean he can seek." Severus said, smirking. "His father was a Chaser, who was as blind as a bloody bat."
"We'll just have to see then, Severus." Minerva told him, not at all worried by his taunting. "Who gave him the broom anyway? When I said I would allow him one, I had planned on getting him one before his first game in February."
"You didn't get it for him?" Albus asked innocently, a twinkle in his eyes.
Minerva tilted her head. "So you did it?" She asked him.
Albus chuckled. "I believe the tag said the gift was from Father Christmas."
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