Now alone in the library, Alexandra frowned. It had been too long since she had been the target of an attack at Hogwarts. She had made the optimistic assumption that no one would dare attack her again, with the terrifying rumours which had circulated about her murdering a full grown mountain troll, but apparently she had been deadly wrong. If indeed Blaise Zabini was right and there was an ambush waiting for her outside the library, it was likely they were prepared and had Slytherins inside their ranks to gather the maximum of magical power against her. Best case, it was only Malfoy and his cronies. Worst case, twenty Slytherins and twenty Ravenclaws, most of them older years. Unlikely, but not impossible. Alexandra was enough realist to know she could not win against such odds.
Looking at her watch, she saw it was five minutes before four o'clock. She could wait in the library two hours and then got to dinner, but there was no certainty her stalkers would not wait that long. It was not as if they were obsessed with their school revisions. Sighing, Alexandra realised she had become too predictable in her schedule. Flitwick had warned her against this habit in the duels, but evidently she should have also applied it to her way of life. And now it was going to end badly.
With her bag on her shoulder, she opened the only door allowing to get out of the library and began to run in a corridor on the right leading to a not very well known stair on the fifth floor.
"AFTER HER!"
Alexandra tried not to laugh hearing that. Apparently, dozens of defeat had not made Draco Malfoy more subtle or careful in strategy planning. If the noises of cavalcade behind her were any indication, it had made the 'wait until my father hears this' pureblood even more brash and straightforward.
The corridor Alexandra had taken was not well-frequented between classes; it was completely deserted on a Saturday afternoon. With her good physical condition, she was able to run half an hour before being forced to stop breathless, even with a bag on her shoulder. Behind her, Malfoy and whoever he had recruited to do the attempt were losing ground, having not practised jogging or duelling in their free time.
When Alexandra reached the stairs, she was thirty meters before her pursuers. Throwing two or three trap spells on the corridor she had just ran from, Alexandra climbed up the stairs, remarking it was 'only' Draco Malfoy, his usual followers Crabble, Goyle, Parkinson, Nott, Bulstrode, Vaisey and what looked to be three fourth-years Ravenclaws with the Slytherins. So it was ten against one, and her housemates were the most dangerous of the lot. It was probably the Ravens who had had the idea of this little ambush, and Malfoy had sabotaged it by his simple presence.
Alexandra did not stop running on top of the stairs, instead continuing to pose simple first-years traps behind her and boosting the advance on her pursuers. Unless she was badly mistaken, all the attackers after her were purebloods. Considering the disdain most the nobility heirs and heiresses of the Wizarding world felt towards physical exercise, she had decided to tire them a bit before engaging the fight.
After three more corridors and two more stairs, Alexandra stopped. Her advance had become sufficiently important for only the older Ravenclaws to maintain a retard of fifty or so meters. The Slytherins first years were lagging far behind at the bottom of the stairs, red-faced from this unanticipated effort.
Throwing a wall of smoke, Alexandra took position under a pillar at her right, hoping that irritated from the long hunt, the Ravenclaws would charge ahead without thinking. To her great surprise, they did.
"Sorry, but a lot of people have angered me today. LUMOS!"
It had been a long time she had ceased to use this tactic of duel against Flitwick: her little Head of House had magical glasses which allowed him to deflect most of the blindness coming from one of her overpowered spell of light.
"ARRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Opening back her eyes, she knew by the screams of pain the light spell had once again done the job. The three Ravenclaws fourth-years, two of them who incidentally had been the deceased Alex Sykes followers, were shouting and trying to hold their eyes, completely blind. Alexandra did not miss the opportunity and immobilised them with three Petrificus Totalus. Held by invisible ropes, the three older teenagers fell on their back, neutralised. The ambush had not taken half a minute.
"Three down, seven to go." Alexandra told herself. Indeed, the strident shouts of Draco Malfoy were already coming nearer, having profited from the time spent to arrive on the scene.
"Slytherin and no quarter!" Exclaimed Draco Malfoy, staying near the stairs and making charge in the corridor his minions Crabble and Goyle, followed by the four other first-years.
"GONDOR!" Alexandra shouted back. After having put three of her own housemates under body-bind, she would be damned before she screamed the name of Ravenclaw.
Then the raven-haired girl began to cast.
"PETRIFICUS TOTALUS! FURUNCULUS! MUCUS AD NAUSEAM! PETRIFICUS TOTALUS! FLIPENDO! VERMILLIOUS! VERDIMILLIOUS!"
Crabble and Goyle had absolutely no chance, being massive for their age. By the time she casted "FLIPENDO!", Crabble was body-bound and Goyle was groaning in pain, covered in boils with his nose and his mouth full of mucus.
Parkinson, Vaisey, Nott and Bulstrode received the rest of her spells but continued to advance casting their own hexes and jinxes in return. Which missed completely. Terrible aim. Moreover, Alexandra was behind a pillar and could take cover. The Slytherins were in the middle of the corridor. Now if only they could stay there...
"COLLOSHOO! COLLOSHOO! COLLOSHOO! COLLOSHOO!"
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