The Unknown

Chapter 20: Hogs Head

It was two weeks later when Dahlia finally decided that it was time to get revenge. Professor Umbridge had given detention to many people throughout that short time, so it wouldn't be suspicious and lead directly to Dahlia. During that time, Ron had become keeper for the Quidditch team, a member of the Order of the Phoenix, Sturgis Podmore, had been arrested for breaking into a top-secret room at the Ministry, and Ron had become quite upset with his brother Percy. His brother congratulated him on becoming a prefect and urged Ron to stop associating with Dahlia and commenting that one day, their family would realise the mistake they made by siding with Dumbledore and Dahlia. Percy tried to stress the importance of loyalty to the Ministry and articles in the Daily Prophet. Dahlia had also written to Sirius to see if she could find out any Order information but was also curious to find out where Hagrid was as she was worried about him. Sirius managed to contact the trio through the floo network and he managed to tell them that they needn't worry about Hagrid. Although Olympe Maxime said they got separated on the way back, Hagrid was tough.

Professor Dumbledore had been seen less and less around the castle too. He wasn't seen as much and missed meals but he was doing that at the beginning of the year. Now, it was days where he would disappear and when Dahlia saw him, it was just glances. She did try to talk to him at one point but he acted like he hadn't heard her, which she knew wasn't true. It was just secret after secret when it came to the Headmaster and Dahlia hated it. She had expressed her frustration to her sister and Hela also showed great dislike towards Dumbledore and Dahlia thought there was something else but didn't question it, knowing her sister would tell her when the time was right.

When it came to Professor Umbridge's punishment, Dahlia knew she couldn't just play a simple prank that Fred and George would. Sure, their pranks were good but not good enough for the god of mischief's daughter to use as revenge. Her father didn't just teach her magic after all.

Dahlia knew Professor Umbridge's patterns and knew the perfect way to get to someone like her would be to affect their reputation, their image. It started off slow, using her Aesir magic, so that Umbridge felt like something was fluttering around her but no one else could see it. She was constantly waving her hand through clear air. Dahlia even went as far as spelling Professor Umbridge's office to go completely black, the cats replaced with bats and it was those exact bats that flew out of the plates and attacked her. She ran around the castle, screaming attacking the air and it was hard for Dahlia to keep up as she had to have visual contact for the illusion to continue. When she saw Professors approaching, Dahlia stopped the illusion and hid.

Dahlia couldn't help but laugh when Professor Umbridge began to rant about how bats were chasing her, how a student's been in her office. Returning to her office, not a single Professor saw what she did and Professor Umbridge even felt embarrassed. For days, Dahlia would use her magic so the Professor saw bats or for a moment would hear them and it would send the woman into a fit. Everyone began to look at her as if she was going to break at any moment and that's when Dahlia knew her work was done.

She had told her father and sister that night in the dream world and her father couldn't stop laughing that his baby girl had done her first illusion prank and embarrassed Hela by telling the story of hers. Their father had to help fix Hela's as she didn't know how to stop the illusion spiders from scaring the servants in Asgard and Odin disapproved terribly, while Loki and Frigga congratulated her in private.

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Hermione had begun to make suggestions that Dahlia teach the students Defence, at first it was meant as a joke during one of Hermione's rants about Professor Umbridge's lessons but then she suddenly had the look on her face that she had an idea and that was it. Dahlia denied the request instantly, knowing most of the school hated her at the moment in time, so why would they let her teach them. Besides that, all the times she fought Voldemort she considered it pure luck but Hermione didn't see it that way. She brought it up once again but this time Ron seemed to agree with her and Dahlia couldn't stop thinking about the idea, every time she looked down to her hand or was in the Toad's lesson, she thought about how much better any student could be.