PLAY WITH FIRE
CHAPTER THREE
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🔥❄🌬🍃| 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞
' I've always liked to play with fire'
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Dahlia was right. Only 2 hours after Dahlia had said those words, the owls of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry had delivered their acceptance letters as well as the book lists for Celeste, Bellamy and the oldest Falcone child Nicholas.

Demetria had gone home not long after they had received them. Iris had decided to go to Diagon Alley the following morning so she insisted that her children were to go to bed as soon as they were finished their dinner.

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The following morning, Raymond and Iris Falcone woke their children up and told them to get ready. Dahlia quickly dressed into her blue skirt, a black sweater with some grey knee high socks and her pair of dark blue flats. She brushed her hair and tied it into a bun.

Just as they were leaving their mother gave them their robes, which they put on quickly before taking the hands of their parents and disapperating to Diagon Alley.

"Okay so here's the plan. Since your sister here will be needing the most I'll go with her to get her the things for her first year." Iris paused before placing butterfly kisses on her youngest childs face.

"Mum!" Dahlia groaned as her older siblings laughed at her.

"Nicholas, Bellamy and Celeste you'll be with your father and I expect all of you to behave." Iris said as she glared at her oldest children for a moment before the family had a brief hugging moment and going their separate ways.

Dahlia was held her mothers hand as they made their way through the busy crowds.

"So where shall we start?" Her mother asked before taking out Dahlia's list that had come with her acceptance letter. "Ah, let's get your robes." Iris suggested before taking her daughters had once again and leading her to 'Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions.'

"Iris Falcone! I thought that was you." Madam Malkin exclaimed as she caught sight of her old friend.

"Always a pleasure." Iris said as she hugged the older woman.

"This must be little Dahlia. You've grown so much." The tailor stated as Dahlia hugged her.

"Right, shall we." Malkin insisted before the Falcone women followed her.

It didn't take to long for Dahlia to find her ideal size and uniform as they were out of there after only 25 minutes.

They then went from there to Slug & Jiggers Apothecary where she got her Potions ingredients, then to Scribbulus Writing Instruments where she got her quills and ink and so on. They spent a good hour going from shop to shop, ticking off the items they got. By the time they were at their last stop their trolley was almost halfway full.

Along the way, they had seen Demetria and her twin sister Eloise who Dahlia wasn't very fond of.

Now Dahlia and their mother were at Ollivanders. They left the trolley outside the shop not before Iris placed a charm on it. They entered the shop to find papers flying around the room and a boy trying out a wand.

"I'll be with you in a moment." Ollivander assured to the two.

Dahlia looked at the boy and furrowed her eye brows, she recognized him from some where. She watched him as he tried out another wand which failed again. He tried another but this one was different. She swore that she saw the whole room light up and the wind blow around. Ollivander knew this was the right wand, so did Dahlia and Iris as they saw some words be exchanged between the two

"Harry?!" Dahlia yelled as she recognized the boy.

"Dahlia? What are you doing here?" Harry asked the girl as they ran into eachothers arms.

"Its a long story." She paused as she realized something. "Wait! This mean you're going to Hogwarts!" Dahlia exclaimed with hope just before Harry nodded his head and pulled her into another hug while Iris and Ollivander watched with smiles on their faces. "Happy Birthday my special friend." Dahlia whispered to him before they separated, while making a mental note to give him his birthday present when they got home.

Just then they heard a knock on the window.

"Harry! Harry! Happy birthday!" A tall man with a huge bushy beard said from the outside as he held up a cage with a young Snowy Owl inside it. The moment he saw it his eyes widdened but Dahlia just smile, she was beautiful.

Not long after that Harry and Dahlia said their goodbyes and Dahlia learned that the tall man was a half Giant named Hagrid who's a good friend of her mothers.

"Miss Falcone it's been quite sometime I must say. Now let's see what will fit little Dahlia here." Ollivander said as he stood on his ladder and rolled down in between the shelves skimming through the boxes. He came back after a few seconds with this long dark blue box.

"Try this one out." He said as he placed the box infront of her.

Dahlia opened the box and took the wand in her right hand. She hadn't realized that her father had entered the shop, there was no way he was going to miss watching his youngest child get her first wand. It would be the last time, for him and his wife to watch this.

"Give it a wave dear." Iris instructed before Dahlia gently flicked her wand making some of the flames of the lamps around his shop burst out.

Dahlia quickly put the wand down in a panic. Her parents just smiled at her, similar situations had happened to them as well as Dahlia's older siblings.

"No...no...no..." Ollivander said quickly as he put the failed wand back in its box then on the shelf.

He came back with a green one in the same size. Dahlia watched eagerly as he opened up the box.

"Here's another." He said as he handed the wand over to the curly haired girl.

She waved the wand again and everything on Ollivanders front desk fell to the ground. Dahlia gasped as she put the wand back into the box and stared at all the broken glass and papers on the ground. Raymond took out his wand and with a wave of it everything started to go back to place.

Ollivander returned the wand to its place before pausing infront of a few others. Dahlia saw him say something as he pulled out this long dark red box from the others like itself.

"I have a good feeling about this one." Ollivander said as he opened the red box and unfolded the red fabric that it was wrapped in before handing it over to the girl. Dahlia could tell this felt and looked different. For one the colour wasn't its typical shade if brown it was more of a dark maroon color and the grip felt like it came from some sort of plant.

Then all of a sudden, what Dahlia had seen happen  to Harry not so long ago was happening. The wind had picked up and the room suddenly became brighter.

"Just as I thought." Ollivander commented catching the Dahlia's attention once again.

"Parden Mr Ollivander?" Dahlia asked the girl asked.

"This is the same type of wand that was made for the Norbrink Sisters." Ollivander answered.

"They were the first Elementals, right?"

"Yes dear.  They were the most powerful witches and were the oldest friends of the 4 Hogwarts founders. That was until they died and the village where they first came together vanished. Hasn't been see for nearly a thousand years." Ollivander told the girl who recalled reading about the Norbrink sisters in one of the Elemental History Books her mother had given her.

They paid for the wand and said goodbye to the man before leaving the store.

"Right then honey I think we can go home now." Iris said as she held onto the trolley.

"Wait theres one more stop." Raymond said before walking over to his wife and whispered something into her ear.

"Yes of course. Take her but don't take too long we'll go wait here." Iris said before Dahlia took the hand of her father.

The two walked down Diagon Alley, through the crowds. Dahlia was confused considering the fact that they had gotten everything that she required for her first year.

They walked for a little while longer before reaching this shop that read, 'Magical Menagerie' they entered to see and hear many different kinds of animals, magical ones of course.

Raymond was talking to the Saleswoman while Dahlia zoned out as she gazed around the shop looking at each of the animals.

"Dahlia, honey. Hogwarts allows toads, owls and cats. So what would you like? Your siblings all got owls." Raymond told the girl as he crouched down to her level.

Dahlia looked around the various cages, trying to make a choice. She wanted to get something different. Then she spotted this grey and white kitten sleeping. She smiled as she watched its little chest rise up and down.

"I think we found the right one." Raymond said to the Saleswoman as they both smiled while watching the young girl.

Raymond paid for the small kitten and told Dahlia that she could only open for her when they got home.

Chapter threeeee
I can't wait to tell you guys what she named her cat :)