The Unknown

Chapter 51: Family Fun Day

The next day, none of the Gryffindor girls expected to be woken early as the majority of the mornings they had free periods which most spent catching up on sleep but even Hermione who would be up studying or doing some homework, was woken rather early. They heard someone moving around and opening drawers as if searching for something, but Hermione woke quickly as she heard it coming from Dahlia's bed next to her. "Dahlia," she said as she blinked awake, "what're you doing?"

"Looking for my Exploding Snap cards," she said as she closed her trunk a bit too loudly.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN HERE?" Lavender said loudly and almost screamed and the other three girls shot up in their beds and looked at Dahlia.

Dahlia rolled her eyes and said, "oh, relax. It's not like I have a soldier with me...he's downstairs," the Gryffindor girls, except Hermione, glanced to the door.

"You shouldn't be here," Lavender said.

Dahlia sighed as she stood in her long amethyst coloured dress with silver cross-stitching across the neckline and on the bottom of her sleeves. She also wore a silver belt with her sword, wand, and a small pouch. Her locket was hanging proudly and freely in the centre of her chest like she hadn't been able to do before and her hair was pinned slightly to the side as it flowed in curls.

"If I remember, I'm a Gryffindor and this is also my room," Dahlia said as she crossed her arms with a small smirk.

While some of the girls just glanced down to the sword, Lavender pushed the covers off herself and stood and said, "like you're a Gryffindor. All the stuff Professor Odinson told us about your dad-"

"Thor is a big-headed fool," Dahlia almost snapped, "if you listen to him about everything regarding the nine realms then you're more stupid than you look".

Lavender gasped as some of the other girls smiled and Faye even let off a small laugh as she and Louise looked to one another. Parvati sat up in bed and reached over to her bedside drawers and brought out a pack of Exploding Snap cards. "Here," she said to Dahlia, "you let me borrow them a few weeks ago".

Dahlia unwrapped her arms and gave a small smile to Parvati as she collected her Exploding Snap cards before walking back to her own bedside drawers. She opened it and collected a few Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes products before putting them and her cards in her pouch which clearly had an extendable charm. "Are you coming to breakfast?" Hermione asked.

"No," Dahlia said as she closed the drawer, "having a family day, I only came to the castle to get some things. I wanted to teach the boys exploding snap and," she smirked, "maybe give them some delicious sweets".

Hermione laughed, "will they even work?"

"We'll see," Dahlia said as she walked back towards the entrance to the dorm, "sorry for waking you early," she said as she closed the door.

She didn't even make it down a step before Lavender said loud enough for her to hear, "IT'S ONLY 7:30!"

When she reached the bottom of the stairs there were no students in sight, only Akio standing like the soldier he is near the entrance to the common room. He turned his head when she took the final step and asked, "returning to camp, Princess?"

Dahlia nodded but as she walked towards him asked, "Akio, quick question. Say if I was to give my brothers prank sweets that should change their appearance, would they work?"

Akio answered instantly as if no thought was needed, "your brothers' biology is different to yours. Although you have the same father, your mothers were of different origins. The sweets you speak of may work on you, because of your mother's Midgardian biology, but may have different affects or none at all on them because they do not possess that Midgardian biology".