Truth be told, she did not know on what foot she was dancing. On one hand, Alexandra was extremely relieved she had not been caught. On the other hand, she was a bit offended the protections had been so...pitiful to protect the Philosopher Stone. With Professor Flitwick having used a few simple charms on her to disarm and tie her in her last duel with him, she knew dealing with a professor in duel was out of her league. So if someone like Dumbledore had really wanted to protect the Stone, the job should have been really impressive and in a whole other league compared to her talents. Alas, all she had was suspicions and her feelings. Not exactly much to form a sound theory.
Alexandra left these morose thoughts when Hermione and Nigel entered the Hall this evening. Without them, well... them and the rest of the students, but the latter despised her, Alexandra had realised Hogwarts was not as interesting as it should be.
Yes, Flitwick was a great Professor and Head of House, but he wasn't around much. Anyway he wasn't from her generation, not by a long shot, and after everything in her eleven years of life, Alexandra had really found two persons of her age she could discuss, share her opinions, work with and help with homework or other issues. It was enough for the Potter Heiress to call Hermione and Nigel the first friends she ever had. Which had made her greatly conflicted about the Forbidden Corridor issue. Tell them or not to them? On the plus side, the black-haired girl felt ninety-nine per-cent certain Hermione wouldn't run to denounce her to Professor McGonagall, though the Gryffindor girl would certainly insist to give the Stone back to its legitimate owners. On the down sides, sharing her experiences with the two Lions would put them in danger should the Headmaster discover her rule-breaking. Hermione came from a non-magical family. Nigel had a relatively well-off father but of influence strictly limited to certain diplomatic and ambassadorial circles. Both would get expulsed without recourse should the authorities-that-be wanted to. In the end, Alexandra had decided not to reveal her epic and illegal adventure...for the moment. If something from the Forbidden Corridor became common knowledge or created an incident out of control, then the Potter Heiress would tell the truth to her two Gryffindor friends. Otherwise, she was going to wait until the Hogwarts Express brought them back to London. Albus Dumbledore may be a powerful and extremely knowledgeable wizard, but the green-eyed Ravenclaw was sure he could not listen everywhere. And most likely by then the area where currently a troll and a massive Cerberus were living would be completely empty.
After having passed a series of potentially dangerous traps on the first day of the year, the rest of January was positively boring in comparison. With the snow and the cold outside, flying was obviously impossible, leaving the first year-students to concentrate on their studies.
Potions, where the manners of Professor Snape had not improved from two weeks of festivities. Herbology, in the warm and damp greenhouses. Transfiguration, where Professor McGonagall's incident with alcohol had been hidden away behind her strict and demanding attitude. Charms, where Flitwick continued to cheer his audience. Astronomy, where the cold made the manipulation of the telescopes more difficult than ever. Defence Against the Dark Arts, with a teacher stuttering and forgetting everything. And History, where the two Professors were as boring as ever.
Normalcy had returned to the school of magic. At least in theory.
To Alexandra great amusement, Neville Longbottom and the rest of the Golden Trio had not stopped searching in the library for any trace of Nicolas Flamel. Longbottom had even managed for Parvati Patil, Dean Thomas and a few other first-years to search with them. She was told that had nearly given heart attacks to members of Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff when they saw Gryffindor students going willingly en mass to the library.
To give the Boy-Who-Lived a bit of credit, Alexandra had read numerous books on the famous French alchemist, and the man didn't appear to be so universally popular in the British magical world as he was in the non-magical one. His relationship with Albus Dumbledore aside, Flamel 's last important research in the field of alchemy had been made public in the 1880s, which even for the long-lived wizards was plenty of time to forget. There was also the problem of his nationality. Most of the books in Hogwarts library had been overwhelmingly printed in the British Isles, with some exceptions from Dutch, Danish or German authors. There was absolutely no book printed or written in French, an absence Alexandra found a bit disturbing.
Even her first school had had some foreign books, if only to learn the basics of said language. Were there problems in French-British relationships or were the taxes to import said works from Paris too expensive? Hermione didn't find anything to answer her questions with certainty and Nigel wasn't in the know of diplomatic intricacies. After a few days, Alexandra let the matter drop.
Coming back to the search of Flamel, she was starting to find the energy deployed by Longbottom a bit suspect. As time passed and January became February, Quidditch practise of the four House teams resumed. Longbottom, as Seeker for Gryffindor, was playing Quidditch four times a week. According to the grumbling and the whining coming from the table of the Lions every day, Captain Wood was a tyrant who made Flitwick's tutoring look like a tender picnic.
Most of Longbottom's remaining evenings were spent with Black and Weasley in detention for various pranks and misdemeanours. If Alexandra had been in Neville's position, she would have concentrated on her studies, not searched for a name in hundreds of long-forgotten books.
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