I OWN NOTHING ALL TO JKR!
Before she knew it another week passed by and there was Dahlia standing in the middle of the Quidditch field for her first team practice.
All the guys on the team were observing her with confused looks as Flint began talk.
"I'd like you all to meet our new seeker, Dahlia Potter" Marcus Flint said as he introduced her.
All the guys raised their eyebrows in a, are you joking sort of manner.
"But she's a first year" said a boy with black wavy hair and dark grey eyes.
"Zip it, Lestrange" Flint snapped.
Dahlia rolled her eyes and glared at the boy who tried to embarrass her. He briefly looked at her and winked, making her cheeks tinge.
He is rather handsome, she thought as she saw him smirk.
"Well let me introduce you to the team and then we can begin practice" Flint told Dahlia as he made everyone stand in a straight line.
"This is Rosier, you've probably met him before since he's one of our 5th year Prefects, he's one of the Chasers" Flint said as he pointed him out, Rosier gave Dahlia a respectful nod.
"Pucey is our other chaser, he's a 7th year" Flint said pointing at brown haired, brown eyed guy that lightly smiled at her.
"I'm the last chaser and Quidditch captain, and I'm in my 6th year"
Flint then walked over to the Lestrange boy and said,
"And this right here is Lestrange, he's one of our beaters and he's in his second year"
Leo grinned and said, "you can call me Leo, though"
Dahlia snorted and said, "as if"
Flint went on to introduce Bletchley as the keeper, he was in his 4th year and finally Higgs, the other beater, he was in his 7th year.
"Alright, now that we've got the introductions out of the way let's practice" Flint said ordering everyone to mount their brooms.
The team had mixed emotions upon beginning practice, obviously wondering what a lousy first year could do.
Or wondering how a first year with only one flying lesson under her belt had made her way onto the team.
The question had soon been answered for them. Flint practised with her throwing golf sized balls that were the same size of a Snitch.
Which she had caught meters in the air.
"Right then how about we practice with Snitch now? See what you make of that?"
Dahlia nodded readying herself, Flint had warned her the Snitch was fast. It disappeared in a blink of an eye, making her search around for the small golden ball.
Then she spotted the glint of gold at the far end goal posts. Speeding towards it narrowly dodging a Bludger, missing colliding with Rosier before she reached the sight of her objection.
Diving right after it catching the golden ball a bare inch above the ground as she was pulling out of her drive.
Landing moments later her feet firmly on the ground. She wanted to that again and soon.
"Snape said you were good but I wasn't expecting you to be that good. Where have you been all of my life Dahlia ?" Flint exclaimed as he landed next to her.
The rest of the team following behind him all looking very impressed, all doubts they had about her gone.
'This means a lot of early wake up calls boys. If we are going to manage keep the fact the Dahlia Potter is a member of our team quiet"
This had caused a few groans.
"It will be worth it when we beat Gryffindor though," Flint added which caused all the team members to smirk.
Flint then turned to her and said,
"Welcome to the team Dahlia"
All the other guys nodded and some even clapped her on the back as they went to the dressing rooms to change.
Dahlia stayed behind fixing her hair when she felt someone's presence behind her. She turned around quickly and saw Leo Lestrange observing her.
"What" she snapped, still not over his little jibe about her being a first year.
He rubbed his neck in a nervous manner and said,
"just wanted to apologize for what I said earlier, I shouldn't have said anything before seeing you fly"
Dahlia observed him carefully, trying to find any hint of insincerity in his eyes. When she found none she smiled slightly.
"Apology accepted" she said as she turned around and walked back to the castle, choosing to shower in her dorm rather than some stingy locker room.
Leaving Lestrange behind with a calculating look on his face.
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It was near the end of that week that a surprise appeared at breakfast. A brown barn owl had swooped down landing with a large parcel attached right in front of her.
When she unwrapped it her eyes widened, she had received a Nimbus 2000.
"You might want to wrap that up before everyone sees. I spoke with Professor Snape I couldn't have my star player on an old-school broom," Flint whispered to her as he turned back around and faced his breakfast.
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Before she knew it September turned to October and her, Draco and Theo had not made any progress on finding out what was being guarded.
"Bloody Granger" Dahlia sighed as she plopped herself on the couch in the common room.
Theo and Draco who had been playing a game of exploding snaps came over to the couch and sat next her.
"What did she do now?" Asked Draco as he scooted over closer to Dahlia.
Dahlia shifted her head so it was on Draco's lap and plopped her feet on Theo's lap as he scooted closer to her as well.
"I was leaving the–" she began
"Library" both Draco and Theo said.
Dahlia playfully glared at them and said,
"Anyways, I ran into her and Weasley but they weren't paying attention to me, thank Merlin, and I don't know what Granger said but Weasley snapped at her and told her 'she was obnoxious and it was no wander she didn't have any friends' and Granger being
the sensitive girl she is, ran off crying to the bathroom and bumped into me, knocking down all my stuff and I lost half of my History notes" she groaned.
Theo chuckled and said "you can have mine"
Dahlia sat up and yelled "THANK YOU"
She then stood up and pulled both boys up with her,
"Come on the Halloween feast is starting soon" she said as she dragged both of them out with her.
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"Pass me some pumpkin pie, Draco dear" Dahlia said as the desserts popped up on the table.
Draco handed her a slice and she dug her fork in it ready to savor the sweetness of it when someone slammed open the doors to the Great Hall.
"TROLL, TROLL IN FHE DUNGEONS" Professor Quirell yelled as he began to wobble in place
"Just thought you should know" he finished before he fainted.
Pathetic, Dahlia thought in the second of silence before all hell broke loose.
All the younger students began screaming and the prefects were trying to calm them down to no avail until a loud voice spoke.
"SILENCE" Professor Dumbledore yelled.
"If everyone will please, not panic. Now, Prefects lead the students to their houses back to the dormitories. Teachers will follow me to the dungeons." He said firmly.
Immediately all the prefects began to lead their respective houses out of the Great Hall.
Dahlia followed obediently and grabbed Draco's hand to make sure they didn't get separated when Rosier and Fawley stopped them all once they got to the stairs.
"I believe our Headmaster forgot our common rooms are in the dungeons so we're taking you all to the library" Rosier sneered in clear dislike that Dumbledore had forgotten where Slytherin resided.
"Everyone follow us please" Fawley ordered as she began to walk alongside Rosier.
"Oh, joy. We're going to your favorite place" Theo whispered loud enough for Dahlia and Draco to hear.
Draco sniggered and Dahlia stomped on Theo's foot earning a pained groan from him.
"Joking" Theo said as he grinned sheepishly at her.
Dahlia humphed but still linked arms with him as they kept walking.
Once they neared the entrance of the Library, Dahlia remembered something, or rather someone.
Granger.
She hauled to a stop and pulled both Draco and Theo with her.
"Why are you stopping?" Draco asked.
Curse my Gryffindor qualities, she thought angrily before replying.
"Granger wasn't at the Halloween feast, which means she's still in the bathroom, probably trying to drown herself in her sorrow"
Draco and Theo stared at her with shocked faces before they snapped out of it.
"No, Dahlia. No way. You are not going to get her" Theo said sounding irritated.
"Yea, why do you care? She's a Gryffindor and a mudblood." He sneered.
Dahlia crossed her arms and said,
"I know what she is. I am not stupid! But I will not allow someone, even if it's someone as pathetic as Granger, to remain uninformed about a Troll roaming the school!" She screeched shoving through them.
Draco grabbed her arm turned her around,
"You are so stubborn" he said as he shook his head.
Dahlia smiled slightly before looking at Theo.
He groaned and said,
"Lead the way"
Dahlia nodded and rushed quickly to the bathroom and ran in.
The first thing she noticed when she entered the bathroom was that Quirell had misinformed them all,
The troll was in the bathroom and it had done a lot of destruction.
"Bloody hell" Draco said as Theo stood there mouth wide open.
Dahlia saw Granger attempting to make herself as small as possible, looking as though she would keel over any second, her robes covered in dust and ripped to shards hiding under a sink.
The troll, on the other hand, wasn't stalling as it moved towards her.
"Distract it!" Theo yelled at Dahlia who turned as white as a sheet once she realized she was in its gaze.
"Oi!" Draco yelled on the fly, as he threw a metal pipe at the troll's shoulder, trying to distract it from Dahlia. The troll didn't seem to notice the pipe, though it did hear Draco's voice.
The distraction gave Dahlia just enough time to pull herself out of shock, before she tried to get Granger's attention.
"GRANGER RUN" Dahlia yelled at her but she was very resistant, staring at the troll in open-mouthed horror.
This really doesn't help your situation, Dahlia thought
"Come on, run!" Dahlia commanded, dodging a blow from the troll and pulling harshly on Granger's arm.
The yells echoing off the tile wall seemed to drive the troll insane as it twisted its head violently, quickening towards Theo, who had began to throw anything near him at the troll.
Then Dahlia did something completely insane: she shoved Granger and did a stumbling run and by some miracle had managed to link her arms around its neck. The downside: she'd accidentally shoved her wand up his nose; she imagined this was rather painful
going by how it yelled, moving its body and club in such a way that Dahlia was sure it was going to be the end of her short life when Draco did something that she later swore she'd kiss him for. (hehe)
He raised his wand and yelled "WINGARDIUM LEVIOSA!"
The club lifted from the troll's grip to hover in the air above its head before smashing into its skull with an ominous and sickening crack. Its eyes rolled up and its whole body collapsed, sending Dahlia sprawling and coughing, her whole body aching.
It was hard to say who was the most stunned, but Dahlia was sure she was the most in pain as she struggled to stand.
The walls begin to spin and Dahlia had to lean against Theo and Draco to remain stable, feeling very much like she'd gone through the wringer.
"Is it-dead?" Granger asked haltingly as Dahlia attempted to steady her heartbeat.
"Of course not," Dahlia snapped, "more likely it's knocked out."
Theo pulled Hope's wand from its nose making a disgusted sound as he wiped the bogies on the troll's trousers before handing it back to her.
"Are you alright?" He asked herconcernly
"Let me catch my breath," she said in exhaustion, sliding down until she was sitting on the floor, pressing a hand to her heart in an effort to manually slow the frantic beats under her palm.
The Fates weren't really working in their favour it seemed, but then, she supposed, they probably had been making quite a racket with their yells and screams (this was including the troll, mind you, who was quite obnoxious with its noise). Somehow, Dahlia
was a bit surprised and disappointed that the professors hadn't shown up before then.
Those moving staircases must not have been very cooperative.
Dahlia blinked thickly a few times, her vision clearing enough to see that Professor McGonagall was the angriest she had ever seen her, but Dahlia wasn't too concerned; they hadn't done anything wrong, really.
If anyone should be punished it should be Granger for being stupid enough to stay in a bathroom to sulk all day.
"What on earth were you thinking of?!" she demanded, the fury in her voice echoing in the silence so loudly that her tone was nearly a shriek.
"You're lucky you weren't killed. Why aren't you in your dormitory?"
Dahlia was about to snap back at her when Theo jumped in,
"We thought the Troll was in the dungeons where our dormitories are at so the prefects led us to the library and—"
"Professor if they hadn't come looking and me, I'd probably be dead." Granger said as she interrupted.
Dahlia was still feeling light headed as her tired eyes were focused rather blearily on the ground, and it was then that she noticed the rip of Snape's robes.
"And why would you Miss Granger even be here in the first place?" Snape asked snidely, his lip curling into a sneer.
"I believe it would be something along the lines of recovering composure, sir." Granger snapped her voice growing cold for the first time in her life snapping at a Professor.
Draco and Theo looked vaguely uncomfortable but remained quiet.
Professor McGonagall seemed to have calmed down somewhat, though she appeared to still be heavily annoyed with them.
"Well, I still say you were lucky, but not many first-years could take on a full-grown mountain troll. You three each win your Slytherin House five points. Professor Dumbledore will be informed of this. You three may go." She said motioning at Dahlia,
Draco and Theo.
The latter two helped Dahlia stabilize herself as she insisted she was capable of walking back on her own.
Just as Dahlia exited the bathroom, not sparring Granger a second glance, she vaguely heard Snape whisper,
"Fifty points to Slytherin"
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Once they neared their common room Dahlia said,
"Never let me do something so reckless ever again!"
Draco bursted out laughing as Theo attempted to hold back his own laugh.
"You—you literally forced us to let you go" Draco said between laughs.
"You're something else Dahlia Potter" Theo said as he whispered the password to their common room.
Dahlia frowned and said,
"I hate Granger, but at least we earned our house 65 points tonight"
Then she followed her two best friends into their common room. Ready to knock herself out the minute she got to her bed.
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Somewhere in her Gryffindor dormitory, Hermione Granger sat on her bed thinking of tonight's events and realizing that Dahlia Potter wasn't as bad as she thought she was.
I wanted to add so much more too this chapter but decided to split it into two chapter instead! So there ya go an update! Please favand leave a Review!