The Twins Who Lived

Chess, Trolls, and Riddles

Both twins are sensitive to loud sounds, Dahlia more than harry, it's why she hardly yells and when he does, he blocks the volume from hurting her without stopping her from hearing what he says
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"Wait, Dahlia and Harry grew up in a cupboard, did the fear develop from there? " Narcissa asked, she couldn't imagine the mental torture that put her niece through "A CUPBOARD!?!" the twins and Neville yelled enraged, momentarily forgetting Dahlia was sitting near them. Dahlia shrunk back, turning and burying her head into her father's chest, James held his daughter close, casting a quick silencing charm around her before directing his attention to the group "Why didn't you tell me?" Neville asked harry, he felt hurt that his brother and sister didn't confide in him, they encouraged them to talk about what bothered then but hid this. "We were scared Alright! We tried so many times to tell people when we were younger, the nurse at school, a cop, but no one believed us, no one did a damn thing! Vernon has friends in the police force, Petunia's got enough dirt on all the neighbors, and they are just so generous to the school that the nurse was fired. They lied about us, saying we were nothing but no good delinquents, how our parents were good for nothing nobodies and we would be just the same, you can not imagine the pain we were put through when Vernon's friend told him what we did, once vernon assured them we were lying he beat us within an inch of our lives-

- we gave up telling anyone, nothing would change and to answer your question Aunt Cissa, dahlia developed her fear, she began to associate the cupboard with pain as 9 times out of ten we were in pain while in their, as we got older and had less room, it worsened, she hated tight spaces and anything that revolved around restricting her, especially after fourth year, I on the other hand love small spaces as it meant I was safe from harm" Harry ranted, saying the last part towards his Aunt, before he sunk down in his seat, sighing while ginny ran a hand trough his hair. Everyone had to blink away tears or wipe them away, the parents heart ached for their children, they were supposed to protect them and they failed.

"It's a giant chess set" Ron said, slightly awed as they looked at the giant board "Look, theirs the door!" Draco pointed, running forward only to yelp and hastily jump back as two of the pawns blocked his path "We're going to have to play" Dahlia observed. "There's only three pieces missing" Ron said, observing the board as well, " I'll play " Draco said " well your utterly hopeless with out me so I'll play as well " blaise said with a smirk, causing a slight giggle to escape dahlia " last I check the two of you are rubbish at chess, I'll be playing " Ron said, ignoring the scowls aimed his way.

The hall watched as they played the game, first Draco was taken out, protecting the king from a castle, then Ron and Blaise made check mate. Narcissa and Molly clung to their respective partners as they watched their son sacrifice themselves in order to help

"blaise, Mione get Ron and Dray to the Infirmary and try to contact dumbledore, if not by merlin I'll be burning that beard off, we'll go ahead" Dahlia said "Be careful Lia, you make it out alive or I'll kill you myself" Hermione said "of course Mia" Dahlia nodded, smiling slightly "You both make it back, I'll never survive the others if you don't" Blaise said. The two nodded before entering the next room, immediately colored fire sprang around both doors "Well there's no turning back now" Harry said helpfully as they moved towards the table, dahlia picked up the parchment, ignoring the potion bottles for now

"Danger lies before you, while safety lies behind,
Two of us will help you, whichever you would find,
One among us seven will let you move ahead,
Another will transport the drinker back instead,
Two among our number hold only nettle wine,
Three of us are killers, waiting hidden in line.
Choose, unless you wish to stay here for evermore,
To help you in your choice, we give you these clues four:
First, however slyly the poison tries to hide
You will always find some on nettle wine's left side;
Second, different are those who stand at either end,
But if you would move onwards neither is your friend;
Third, as you see clearly, all are different size,
Neither dwarf nor giant holds death in their insides;
Fourth, the second left and the second on the right
Are twins once you taste them, though different at first sight."

" Please tell you got an idea, because I don't have a single clue as which one is right " harry said turning to his sister " Three are poison, two are wine, one goes forward, the other back" she muttered as she looked at the bottles, the Riddle in her mind as she observed the 7 bottles "The purple bottle will take us back and the blue bottle will take us to the next room" Dahlia said a moment later.

The movie paused as the twins enter the room "this next scene is not entirely suitable for anyone under 13, if you'll please enter this room over here, you'll be back once the scene ends, I will do a quick summary of what they see for y'all but you won't be aloud to see it" Hermione said as she stood up, pointing to a door that had appeared, they had all agreed that seeing Voldemort especially like this would traumatize them and that was something none of them wanted.
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Until next time my pups

• mischief managed •