The Unknown

Chapter 58: Alive

The small group of Gryffindors made their way to the lake with Tonks and Akio following and thankfully, neither one asked questions, but Tonks kept glancing at Dahlia as if she knew she was to blame. When they got to the lake, they leaned against large rocks as Dahlia paced in front of them and Tonks couldn't hold back any longer.

She walked to the Gryffindors and asked, "okay, what happened to Umbridge?"

Dahlia ignored her as she paced in front of the lake. She thought of Umbridge and what she had done and surprise surprise, a portal opened and within seconds out came her sister. Dahlia turned away as she rolled her eyes, but Hela said, "hey," and strode forward and grabbed her arm to turn Dahlia. "Don't turn your back on me, what happened?"

"So, you're talking to me now? You've barely spoken to me since you were sending the souls back".

Hela took a deep breath, aware that she was still holding Dahlia's arm as she said, "we're not discussing that...what happened between you and that professor?"

"Nothing," Dahlia said as she ripped her arm out of Hela's hold.

"Really?" Hela said as she let off a small laugh and said sarcastically, "so, I don't have Aurors and the Ministry demanding it was one of us who tortured a Ministry official, as much of a bitch as she is? I don't currently have Aurors under their rubbish invisibility cloaks watching the camp? I haven't been and seen a woman covered in scars, attempting and almost clawing her eyes out because she is having everything taken off her to harm herself with, and I don't sense your magic involved?".

As Hela mentioned Umbridge clawing at her eyes, Dahlia looked down regretfully and shook her head as she said quietly, "I didn't mean to...I didn't..."

"Sister," Hela said softly as she stepped closer and lifted Dahlia's chin up with her fingertips. "We're sisters. We're going to disagree on a lot of things, the way I handle my love life is going to be one of them. But you know I'm always here for you...so tell me, what happened?"

Tears came to Dahlia's eyes as she asked, "is she going to die? Did I kill her?"

"No no no no no, I promise, you didn't kill anyone," Hela said quickly knowing her sister didn't wish to kill anyone. "Her injuries aren't life threatening, she won't die from them. But what happened?"

Dahlia shook her head slightly as she explained, "she was hurting kids, I just wanted her to stop. She was making us write lines in detention that used our blood instead of ink and marking our hand and even after the truth came out, she wasn't stopping".

Hela reached for her sisters' hands at the tip and looked at both. They seemed fine but then slowly writing on her left hand began to appear. 'I must not tell lies' was now as clear as day.

"Why didn't I see this?" Hela asked.

"Glamour charm," Dahlia answered.

"But why now? Why take revenge now?" Hela questioned.

"It wasn't revenge," Dahlia answered as she released her hands from her sisters and said, "it was justice for what she did to all us kids, but I never meant for it to go the way it did. I snuck out last night through the window and onto my broom and I didn't know what I was planning to do when I got there, I guess I just wanted to see if she had any remorse for what she had done. When I got to her office windows, I just saw her smiling as if she hadn't just been harming an eleven-year-old. She was just smiling and drinking her tea and I got angry and the next minute she picked up the quill and began to write herself. No sign of stopping or slowing down".

Hela frowned and asked, "did you say any spell? Mind control?"

Dahlia rapidly shook her head for a moment and said, "no, I swear I didn't. I'm rubbish at the mind, you know that, I barely know any spells that could do something like that and my box is in the camp for any hope of even finding one. I just got angry, then..." she licked her bottom lip as she looked down then looked back to her sister as she said, "my hands, my magic was showing itself, but it was different. My hands turned gold, it was as if my veins were on fire. I could see them through my very skin and I couldn't control it. I went back to my room and it soon stopped and I thought she stopped doing it too...sister, what's happening to me?"