Dahlia's head was spinning and she was already unsteady enough on her feet. The chaos happening right here in front of her was barely registering with her at the moment. Yes, she heard the yelling and the spells being cast, saw the fear in each and every single muggles eyes. As if that wasn't enough they were now arming themselves with branches, branches that belonged to a very angry Whomping Willow.

None of this was good. Someone else was going to get hurt, Lia could feel it down in her bones. Mamie's somewhat hug and pat on the back was appreciated but it didn't do much good. Neither did the shove that she had given Dahlia to get her to move behind her, it had been unexpected and caused the first year to stumble. It was okay though, no complaints were going to be made, she knew Mamie was trying to complete the class activity.

With something of a quiet sniffle, Lia whispered to no one really, "You're only scaring them all even more." They were all older than her, why couldn't they see that their shouts and spells were frightening the muggles. Of course they were going to try to fight back when they all probably felt extremely threatened right now. Lia didn't blame them in the slightest.

Wiping her face on the sleeve of her robe, Dahlia sniffed once again, stepping forward towards the group of muggles but still far enough back that she was out of harms way. "Hi," she spoke softly willing no more tears to fall so she could hopefully speak. "I can see you're all scared an-and I am too... bu-but I-.. we can he-help.." More sniffles and there were the tears again making her voice crack. Yeah, this wasn't going to go over well.

"Th-there's a wa-way out... pl-please trust us an-and we can all show you.." Lia brushed her hand against her face this time trying to get her hair unstuck from the dried tears. "L-look... I'm putting thi-this away, okay? Ca-can you all pu-put your weap-weapons down too?" She slipped her wand back into its holster to prove she was unarmed. She knew her tactic was not at all what they were meant to do but if it kept anyone else from being killed, she was going to try it.

This was worth a try since shouting and spells weren't doing anything more than scaring everyone and annoying an already very dangerous large tree.